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Spring Break in North Carolina (Trip Report)
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Spring Break! Ok, so that doesn’t quite mean the same thing as it used to. This year, we took the kids to North Carolina to…
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Up All Night With Delta During the Great LAX Terminal Shuffle
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On Friday night, an army of orange and green vests gathered outside Delta’s makeshift command center sitting atop the surface parking lot outside Los Angeles…
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Cranky on the Web: The LAX Terminal Shuffle
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FOX 11 News In Depth: Big changes coming to LAX – Fox 11 Los Angeles I actually spent all of last night with Delta following…
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3 Links I Love: Spirit’s Pilots Get Slapped in Court, Bad Small City Subsidies, Baltia’s At It Again
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This week’s featured link: Amid Cancelations & Delays, Court Orders Spirit Airlines Pilots To Halt Alleged Work Slowdown – Consumerist I thought Consumerist did a…
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Delta’s CEO on the Middle East “Cheaters” (Across the Aisle)
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Welcome back to the third, final, and probably most controversial installment in my Across the Aisle interview with Delta CEO Ed Bastian. If you missed…
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Delta’s CEO on Preventing Cockiness, Arriving On Time More, and Viral Videos (Across the Aisle)
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Grab some coffee (or a beer) and get comfy. This is the longest chunk of my interview with Delta CEO Ed Bastian. If you missed…
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Delta’s CEO On The Perfect Airplane for Los Angeles, A Vision for the Pacific, and More (Across the Aisle)
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Let’s call this “Delta week,” because you’re going to be getting a lot of CEO Ed Bastian here. When he was in Los Angeles a…
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3 Links I Love: Allegiant Chooses Row 13 and an Orange Stripe, Lufthansa Group Ditches a Safety Rule, New Hawaiian Pualani
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This week’s featured link: For the First Time, Allegiant Air Learns What It’s Like to Configure a New Airplane – Skift This is a great…
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A Cranky Jackass Award for American’s 737 MAX Torture Chamber
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Unlike many of you, I’ve been a fan of traditional airlines increasing density on airplanes over the years. It made sense to me: provide a…
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Belatedly Pondering Alaska’s Dallas Plans
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I’m well aware that it’s been about three weeks since Alaska announced its plans for serving Dallas/Love Field, but I’ve been thinking about it a…
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Southwest’s Surprising Decision to Stop Overbooking
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If you thought United’s 10-point plan to deal with the Dr Dao dragging incident was a bit much, just look at what Southwest has done.…
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3 Links I Love: Let’s Buy Alitalia, American Jacks Up Pay, United Mourns JFK
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This week’s featured link: Lufthansa says not interested in taking over Alitalia – Financial Express The worst airline ever continues to live up to its…