Recent Articles
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A $6,500 Penalty From EVA Thanks to Complex Fare Rules (Tales From the Field)
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In my recent post talking about Delta’s move to reconsider change fees, I alluded to one issue we were having with EVA Air here at…
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Reverse Invasion: LOT Polish Takes Over Condor
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Talk about an odd-coupling. LOT Polish has been looking for a growth strategy for years. Meanwhile, Condor has been looking for a new owner since…
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3 Links I Love: Hating Spirit, Eastern Again, JetBlue Pricing
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This Week’s Featured Link If Everyone Hates Spirit Airlines, How Is It Making So Much Money? – Marker by MediumGood read on Spirit. I keep…
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Talking With SAS as the Airline Brings Back Its LA to Copenhagen Flight
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On January 13, an SAS A330 pulled into the gate at the Bradley Terminal in Los Angeles like most other days. The difference this time,…
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Delta's New Miami Flights Are Almost Exactly What You'd Expect
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When Delta decided to spend billions of dollars to wrestle LATAM away from American, it knew it had to invest in building up Miami. Miami…
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JetBlue Cuts Long Beach Again, Refuses to Rip the Band-Aid Off
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If anyone understands what JetBlue is doing in Long Beach, please let me know. After trying all different kinds of things over the years, JetBlue…
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Cranky on the Web: JetBlue Cuts Long Beach Again, An Airlines We Lost Interview
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JetBlue drops Oakland, shrinks Long Beach amid broader route shakeup – TPGJetBlue is cutting Long Beach again, and I chimed in for this TPG article.…
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3 Links I Love: Brutally Boeing, Flybe Saved, American Fights in Boston
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This week’s featured link December 2019 Letter – richardaboulafia.comI keep wanting to write about the ever-worsening situation at Boeing, but I just don’t pay close…
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Forget Fancy Tech; Delta Can Win Way More Friends By Tackling the Change Fee
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Dawn Gilbertson over at USA Today did some good work to discover that Delta may be considering shaking up the hated change fee. When she…
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A Look at Parallel Reality, Delta's Wall of Messages Directed at Individual Travelers
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Delta CEO Ed Bastian’s wide-ranging keynote last week rolled out all sorts of technological goodies, but there was only one that really caught my eye.…
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Strange Math: A Fight for 27, or 29, or 39 New Gates in Denver
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When Denver International Airport replaced Stapleton in the 1990s, it was designed to grow. Granted, at the time, it was hard to imagine an actual…
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Cranky on the Web: Airplane Movie Mistakes
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When movies make airplane fanatics cringe – SFGateThis should probably be titled “stuff that 99 percent of people in the world don’t care about,” but…
