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How Long Do I Have to Use My Airline Ticket? (Ask Cranky)
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I realize the title of this sounds odd since, you know, you usually just use your ticket when you take the flights you booked. But tickets themselves have independent value, and if your plans change,…
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United Improves While JetBlue, Alaska, and Southwest Don’t in 2017 On-Time Derby
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It’s time for some fun with numbers. The year is over, and my technical issue with masFlight was fixed. That means I was able to cuddle up with my computer over the weekend and start…
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Icelandair Tries New Market Types to Protect Its Model in a MAX/neo World
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On a cold winter back in 1999, my college friends and I decided to spend our last spring break in the exact opposite way of pretty much everyone else. I had received an email from…
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3 Links I Love: Why JFK is Terrible (Reason #3,194), Alaska’s Winter of Discontent, Americans Flee to Tijuana
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This week’s featured link: Why Did New York’s JFK Airport Struggle to Cope With Its Flight Backlog After the Bomb Cyclone? – The Points Guy Were you stuck in New York during that nasty bomb…
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The Trend Toward Pre-Reclining Seats in Coach is a Good Thing
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This week it came out that British Airways was doing away with seats that recline on new short-haul aircraft and will instead use a “pre-reclining” seat. The knee-jerk reaction is, of course, to curse BA…
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With an Assist From JetBlue, Hawaiian Chooses Long Beach As Its First New Airport to Serve with the A321neo
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Hawaiian Airlines has long had a size issue. Ever since the DC-8s were retired back in the 1990s, the airline has only had large widebody aircraft to fly to the mainland. This wasn’t necessarily a…
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Just How Did American Perform After Its Pilot Schedule Problem?
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Remember way back in early December? There were no absurdly-named bomb cyclones to speak of (if you have had to touch that mess of an airport that is JFK in the past week, my condolences),…
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3 Links I Love: A Political Bonus Thanks to Tax Reform, A 747 Wedding
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This week’s TWO featured links: Southwest Airlines Rings In The New Year Under Tax Reform With Employee Bonus, Charitable Contribution, And Further Investment In Its Boeing Fleet – Southwest Newsroom American Airlines to Distribute $1,000…
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Qatar Copies Etihad, Not Emirates In Its Quest to Fly Between Europe and the US
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Just recently I wrote about how the real threat posed by the Middle East airlines to those in the US was fifth-freedom flying — flights that operate from an airline’s home country to a second…
