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Republic “Commits” to Up to 200 Embraer Aircraft It’ll Probably Never Fly
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This week is the Farnborough Airshow, a biennial orgy of aircraft orders where manufacturers try to flex their muscles and show the world just how much metal (or composites) they can sell. The whole thing…
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Flying What’s Left of Virgin America on Alaska Airlines to Seattle (Trip Report)
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Last year, I turned 40. This year, it was my wife’s turn. And for her 40th, she wanted to go on an Alaska cruise with me and the kids. After looking at all the options,…
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No, Norwegian Hasn’t Turned Into a Profit Machine
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I don’t usually cover earnings here on the blog, but there were so many stories wrongfully touting Norwegian’s miraculously-profitable Q2 that I had to write it up. The airline is a master of confusion when…
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Cranky on the Web: Huntsville Scares Birmingham
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Frontier Airlines adds another city in Alabama, but what will it mean for BHM? – Birmingham Business Journal (soft paywall) You wouldn’t think a couple flights a week to Denver and Orlando from Huntsville would…
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3 Links I Love: Ode to the Dash, Fare Weakness, Asiana Crash Response
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This week’s featured link: Dash 8: The Piedmont Story – YouTube As you know from reading the blog, Piedmont just retired its last Dash 8 from service. It had flown that airplane for more than…
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JetBlue Supersizes Itself With A220 Order, A321 Upgauge
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It wasn’t long ago that Airbus finalized its deal to take control of Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft program, so to celebrate, the aircraft has been renamed in the Airbus naming convention. Say hello to the A220.…
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Fun with Numbers: America’s Most Unreliable Airports
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It’s so common to come across an article trying to arbitrarily rank airlines or airports one way or another that I generally have little trouble ignoring them all. But when I saw Airways cite a…
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LEVEL Goes Short-Haul From Vienna, and I Struggle to Figure Out Why
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When IAG launched LEVEL last year as a long-haul, low-cost airline, I understood the niche. But now, LEVEL is growing and not in ways you’d expect. The airline will open its first short-haul base of…
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Cranky on the Web: LaGuardia’s Terminal, I Wish Airlines Would…
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LaGuardia Rebuilds to Go Beyond “Third World,” but is it Enough? – Icons of Infrastructure Here’s another Icons piece, but this one I didn’t write. I was just interviewed about my thoughts on LaGuardia’s rebuild.…
