Recent Articles
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American and Delta Do Well Despite Airport Issues (Trip Report)
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I’m doing a lot of travel this month, so you can expect more trip reports than normal. This particular one was for my grad school…
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Etihad’s “The Residence” Is A Clever Use of Normally-Dead Space on the A380
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Air travel bloggers are abuzz about the new offering from Etihad called “The Residence.” This “class above First” is actually a three room suite meant…
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Cranky on the Web (May 5 – 9)
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Spirit Is Tired of Travelers Not Knowing How Their Airline Works – Conde Nast Daily Traveler Spirit is rolling out a marketing campaign to teach…
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Topic of the Week: Hubs Keep Getting Bigger
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This last week, we saw Qantas announce that it was upgauging its Sydney-Dallas/Ft Worth flight to an A380. That means more feed for American in…
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Azul to Fly to the US, Showing What JetBlue May Have Been if Neeleman Had Stuck Around
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If you’ve ever wondered what JetBlue might have looked like had David Neeleman not been forced out in 2008, you can just look south. When…
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Science-y Goodness: How Sun and Water Just Turned Carbon Dioxide Into Jet Fuel
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Who’s ready for a little science? It’s pretty awesome science, if that helps get you excited. Apparently, scientists in Europe have successfully turned carbon dioxide…
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Frontier’s New Pricing Structure Looks a Lot Like Spirit’s, But There Are Differences
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We’ve been talking about Frontier’s transformation into an ultra low cost carrier (ULCC) for a long time here, but now that the airline is under…
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Cranky on the Web (April 27 – May 2)
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The Worst Airports for International Connections – Conde Nast Daily Traveler This is really a look at the worst US airports when making an international…
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Topic of the Week: JetBlue Cleans House
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After a rough winter operationally followed by the pilots voting to unionize, JetBlue is making a bunch of management changes. First, these guys are all…
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The Evolution of Premium Economy (and What the Heck Is It Anyway?)
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The term “premium economy” is a fairly nebulous one. It can mean anything from just a little extra legroom to an entirely different class of…
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Update: I Am a Bad Parent and Kids Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Fly
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After yesterday’s trip report on my painful journey across the country with my kids, I received a lot of feedback. Most of it was empathetic…
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Flying with Kids Sucks (Trip Report)
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This should have been an awesome trip. Thanks to nonstop flight times that don’t work for us (redeye), we nearly always have to connect when…
