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After Years of Making Life Difficult, Virgin Australia Simplifies
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Twenty years ago when Virgin Blue launched, it had a simple mission. The airline was built to bring low fares to a continent where few were to be found. Since that time, the airline —…
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Southwest Slashes September Flights, Everyone Else Remains Quiet
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This week on Skeds of air Lines, that Texan cowboy — Southwest — decided the time had come to face reality and make a move. But that was pretty much all of the big action…
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A New Cranky Talk Is Live: How Airlines Are Keeping Travelers Safe
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Cranky Talk: How Airlines are Keeping Travelers Safe It’s Cranky Talk time again, and this week, it’s a super-sized 18+ minute podcast. Why is it so long? Well, we had a lot to talk about.…
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Cranky on the Web: Making Travel Safer
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Flying in 2020 and 2021: How Airlines Are Adapting and How Passengers Can Stay Safe – WendyPerrin.comWendy had Gary Leff and me on a Zoom call with her readers to talk about the current state…
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3 Links I Love: Credit Card Declines, Mobile Moves, Israel’s New Plane
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This week’s featured link Travel Blogs Rode Credit Card Referrals Wave: What Comes Next? – SkiftIt may be a day of reckoning for credit card bloggers. The olden times of easy, big money are —…
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Lufthansa Goes Back to Its Happy Place By Starting a New Airline For No Good Reason
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If there’s anything the Lufthansa Group loves, it’s complexity. The group has been fanatical about making things as confusing as possible from an operational perspective, and it has been quite successful. After finally clearing out…
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Vintage Airport Shirts Are Now Available… And We’re Taking Requests For More
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For those of you who like to kick it old school — damn, I sound like an old guy trying to pretend to be cool — we now have vintage airport t-shirts available. It’s not…
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Despite Mass Airline Layoffs Looming, the Feds Should Stop Funneling Money Into Airlines
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We are now less than two months away from key CARES Act provisions expiring at the end of September, and that means there will be massive changes to the airline industry overnight starting October 1.…
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American and United Load September Schedules, More Cuts For Everyone
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It’s Monday, and that means it’s schedule change time. You requested it, and now the time has come to give this weekly post a name. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the skeds of…
