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Cranky on the Web (March 21-25)
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Fuel hedging no guarantee for airlines – CNN Out of the Office Following up on last week, this week I wrote about fuel hedging and why airlines don’t actually have fuel prices locked in, for…
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Topic of the Week: Vision’s Ongoing Sales
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Once again, Vision Airlines has extended its fare sale for its new routes from the Florida Panhandle “due to overwhelming response.” I think we all know what that means. At the same time, some routes…
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United Announces Onboard Wifi, But It’s Hardly a Ringing Endorsement
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Earlier this week, United announced that it will finally put wifi onboard about 200 of its airplanes. You would think that this would finally resolve the wifi question at the new world’s largest airline, but…
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Is United Slowing Down Flights to Save Fuel? (Ask Cranky)
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I’ve got a follow-up for an old Ask Cranky post today. In January, I wrote about why Delta might change flight times by a few minutes here and there. I received a similar question from…
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Feeling the History at Washington National Airport
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Last month when I flew in and out of Washington National Airport, it brought back a lot of memories. The airport has changed a great deal since I first arrived for college in 1995, but…
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Cranky on the Web (March 14 – 18)
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Fuel ‘surcharge’ a fare increase with a fancy name – CNN.com Out of the Office This week, it’s time to talk about fuel prices. They’re going higher and so are fares, but the two aren’t…
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Topic of the Week: The (Temporarily) Shrinking Japanese Market
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In light of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown 1-2-3 punch, traffic to Japan is plunging. Delta has suspended its Haneda flights for a few months, Singapore has indefinitely postponed its A380 service there, and other airlines around…
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Lufthansa Goes Back in Time, Gives First Class Travelers a Seat and a Bed
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Airlines have spent a lot of time and effort trying to figure out a way to squeeze a seat and a bed into a very small space on an airplane, and they’ve done an admirable…
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Delta Comes out Swinging at Frontier Over Minneapolis Move
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Anyone who thinks that the days of airline schedule retaliation are over clearly hasn’t been watching Delta. The airline is royally pissed that Frontier had the gall to enter the Minneapolis to Kansas City market…
