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  • Government Regulation, Safety/Security, Southwest

    Southwest Checks for Cracks

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    Mar 12, 2008

    I’m not going to spend too much time talking about what happened today, because it’s been covered by just about everyone. (I should say overdramatized by just about everyone.) In short, Southwest had to take…

  • Q400, SAS

    SAS and Bombardier Settle Over the Q400

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    Mar 12, 2008

    At the end of October, I asked whether Bombardier and SAS should kiss and make up over their differences. Yeah, sure there were three Q400 landing gear issues in two months, but what’s a little…

  • Virgin America

    Virgin America Buy 2 Get 1 Free?!

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    Mar 11, 2008

    It appears that Virgin America is getting desperate. Repeat after me . . . MUST-RAISE-CASH. A friend forwarded me an email that was apparently sent to at least some of Virgin America’s eleVAte frequent flier…

  • British Airways, LHR – London/Heathrow, Oneworld, SkyTeam, Star Alliance

    London/Heathrow Gets Ready to Play Musical Airlines

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    Mar 9, 2008

    There has been a ton of interesting news to write about in the last few days, and I’d been having trouble figuring out with what to lead . . . until yesterday. Turns out that…

  • Safety/Security, Southwest

    Be Careful Before Deciding Southwest Was Unsafe

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    Mar 7, 2008

    This is definitely the hot topic of the last couple days, and I must admit I’m still trying to sort it all out. This is what I’ve put together so far (with the help of…

  • Airport Experience, Baggage, Government Regulation, Inflight Entertainment, Mergers/Finance, Schedule Changes, US Airways

    A Little More From US Airways

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    Mar 6, 2008

    Ok, as requested (by at least one person), here are the rest of my notes from US Airways Media Day. I could try to make it all nice and pretty, but nah I’ll just try…

  • Accidents/Incidents, Southwest

    Amazingly Low Gas Prices

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    Mar 5, 2008

    I saw this on reddit this morning just had to laugh. You might remember when this accident happened: 8 years ago today. The Southwest flight from Vegas overran the runway at Burbank and ended up…

  • Continental

    Continental’s Not Here to Start No Trouble . . .

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    Mar 5, 2008

    . . . they’re just here to do the terminal shuffle. Ok, maybe that joke is about 20 years too late, but someone out there will get it. Anyway, thanks to Today in the Sky…

  • Seats, Singapore Airlines

    Singapore’s No-Win Decision to Go All Business Class on Ultra Long Haul

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    Mar 4, 2008

    I was going to follow up yesterday’s post with some more detailed notes from the US Airways Media Day, but then I figured you guys are probably sick of hearing about it. Maybe I’ll post…

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