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Cranky on the Web (July 9 – 13)
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American Airlines Merger Possibilities: The Bad and the Worse – Conde Nast Daily Traveler American says it’s evaluating five different airlines for a merger. Oh please. This has to be a joke, right? Photos: Inside…
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Topic of the Week: SkyWest Buys Japanese
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SkyWest will be buying 100 Mitsubishi Regional Jets. These airplanes seat 70 to 90 people and compete head-on with the CRJ-700/900 and Embraer 170/175/190/195 families. Seems to me that Bombardier really loses out here, because…
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A Visit With California Pacific Airlines
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Two long years ago I wrote about a proposed startup called California Pacific Airlines. At the time, I said that it was different from other startups for two reasons. “First of all, [CPAir] actually has…
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Southwest Rightly Kills A Successful Subsidy on the Florida Panhandle
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Something very strange happened last week. St Joe and Southwest agreed to end the subsidy agreement that was put in place to get the airline to start service to Panama City, Florida back in 2010.…
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Alaska Offers Self Bag-Tagging After Feds Finally Ease Restrictions
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A couple of weeks ago, Alaska Airlines announced it would start aggressively rolling out self bag-tagging for its customers. This might sound like a little thing but it was a painful process to finally get…
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Cranky on the Web (July 2 – 6)
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10 Ways To Travel Like a Frequent Flier – Johnny Jet A nice shout-out from Johnny Jet about Cranky Concierge services. In the Trenches: Getting Together – Intuit Small Business Blog I brought my new…
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Your Last Day to Support Cranky By Signing Up for a Credit Card
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Apparently, if you want to have links to credit card providers, you have to be a big producer. A couple weeks ago, Amex shut off my links because I didn’t push enough volume. Yesterday, I…
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Virgin America Posts Terrible First Quarter Loss, Has One Year to Prove Itself
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Here we are in July and believe it or not, I haven’t written an article focusing on Virgin America here since last year. I guess it’s because the airline seemed to be on autopilot. It…
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Delta’s New Pilot Contract Kicks Off the Great Regional Feeding Frenzy of 2012
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Last week, Delta’s pilots easily approved a new contract with management that will see a lot more insourcing of flying as well as an upgauging of existing regional airplanes. As I wrote before, this is…
