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US Airlines Ramp Up Effort to Stifle Middle East Carriers – What Do They Know?
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It looks like American, Delta, and United are getting a little nervous about those fast-growing carriers in the Middle East. It’s bad enough that the three have now banded together to push on the US…
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Cranky on the Web – Revisiting Social Media
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In the Trenches: Thinking About Social Media Again – Small Business Center Once again I take a look at our social media strategies. For those who are interested, I did start an Instagram account, but…
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Topic of the Week: Alaska Wants to Give American Its Mexico City Authority
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Here’s an interesting little tidbit that I came across on airliners.net this week. Alaska currently flies LAX-Mexico City once a day. It wants to give that authority to American, which will fly it twice daily…
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A Trip on Virgin America I Wish I Didn’t Have to Take (Trip Report)
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I realize I’ve done a lot of trip reports lately, but that’s because I’ve had some unplanned travel. This trip was the worst example of that. We had an unexpected death in the family, and…
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A Missed Opportunity: How American Should Have Responded to This Unhappy Traveler (Ask Cranky)
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This is a different kind of Ask Cranky. What started as a question about why American/US Airways keeps fares so high in the Pittsburgh-New York market turned into discussion about how the airline really dropped…
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Delta Earns a Cranky Jackass Award for Requiring Several Week Advance Purchase to Book Low Level Domestic Awards and Not Telling Anyone
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You may have seen elsewhere that Delta has decided to stop publishing all award charts. That’s bad, because it makes it easier for Delta to change mileage redemption levels without telling anyone. But there are…
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Cranky on the Web – Debating Frequent Flier Programs,
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Do airline loyalty programs have a future? – Bullingdon Post This is a new site, and I was asked to participate in a panel with Gary from View from the Wing and Ben from One…
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Topic of the Week: Do Bigger Airplanes Matter?
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Delta announced it’s bringing its 717s back to the west coast. The LA – San Francisco shuttle will see half the flights upgauged from an Embraer 175 to a Boeing 717. Do you care? Will…
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Strange Bedfellows: Korean to Codeshare with American
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Airlines announce codesharing relationships all the time, and I usually don’t give them a second look. But when an announcement came through yesterday that Korean and American would begin codesharing, I had to do a…
