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Virgin America Has One More Day Before it Disappears and Alaska Is Prepared
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Virgin America’s time is almost up. After the last flight goes tomorrow night, April 24, the airline will officially be gone from the public eye. Starting Wednesday, all those Airbuses operate under the Alaska Airlines…
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Cranky on the Web: Rethinking Window Seats After Southwest 1380
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Window seat or aisle? After Southwest incident, some fliers think twice – CNN Money If you read the title of this post and rolled your eyes, then we’re in the same boat. When I got…
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3 Links I Love: Allegiant and the FAA Get Hammered, Rolls Royce Has Engine Problems Yet Again
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This week’s TWO featured links: I decided to feature two links this week, because they shine light on two sides of the same coin… Allegiant Air: The Budget Airline Flying Under the Radar – 60…
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Southwest’s Post-Accident Response Starts the Right Way, But The Road is Long
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At first, it seemed like a routine engine failure. Sure, the pictures coming off Southwest flight 1380 looked bad as did the panicked passenger response, but we’ve seen that plenty of times. It was only…
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Sun Country Earns the Cranky Jackass Award for Giving No Options to Stranded Customers
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When it comes to major weather problems, I’m a pretty forgiving person. Weather wreaks havoc on an airline, and recovery can be really difficult. But even if it takes a week, it’s still important for…
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IAG Shows Its Smarts With Effort to Acquire Norwegian
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There is nothing quite like watching CEO Willie Walsh and the team at the generically-branded International Airlines Group (IAG) work. Every so often, the company (parent of British Airways, Iberia, Vueling, Aer Lingus and LEVEL)…
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Cranky on the Web: Why Boarding Sucks, Taking Out Loans to Travel
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Boarding an airplane is such a pain in the neck. Can the process be fixed? – Los Angeles Times Catharine Hamm at the LA Times tackled a reader question about why boarding sucks. The problem,…
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3 Links I Love: Two Airlines Pour Money into JetSuite, Evolution of Ontario, Prescott’s Options
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This week’s featured link: JetSuite Plans Big Expansion With New Investments From Qatar Airways And JetBlue – Forbes I continue to scratch my head over the announcement that Qatar Airways will put money into JetSuite,…
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American Makes a Move to Grow Dallas/Ft Worth, But Bigger Decisions Need to Be Made
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Everyone wants an Atlanta. Delta has built Atlanta into an incredible hub, a machine that pushes through an enormous number of passengers to feed the airline’s global network. Both United and American would love to…
