Recent Articles
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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3 Links I Love: More EAS Cuts, Boeing and Embraer Cuddle Up, Hope for Mexico City
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This week’s featured link: US DOT terminates EAS availability at 21 communities – ch-aviation It’s that time again when the Department of Transportation culls the…
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As of Today, the Big Four US Airlines Have No Propellers Operating Under Their Brands
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Yesterday, American Eagle flight 4927 landed in Salisbury, Maryland right around dusk. That flight, operated by a Dash 8-300, marks the end of turboprop operations…
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David Neeleman’s New Airline, Moxy, is Not Going to Make Southwest Happy
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By now you’ve likely heard about David Neeleman’s new airline, Moxy, which I hope is a temporary name. While full details are sparse, we can…
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Hawaiian’s A330 Flat Beds From Honolulu to Los Angeles (Trip Report)
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I’m back from vacation tomorrow, so here’s one last Hawaiian post for you. With only one night in Hawai’i, it was easy to stay on…
