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American’s Gold Star for Taking a Step Toward “Productizing”
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American announced yesterday that they’ll being offering a hybrid price/schedule search on the website that looks quite similar to what we’ve already seen at Southwest, Air Canada, Alaska, and Hawaiian. Though it’s not live yet…
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Southwest’s Not-So-Huge Move
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Southwest just decided to start participating in the Galileo Global Distribution System (GDS), and the media is running around like it’s the biggest news in the history of mankind. Travel Weekly (subscription only) says it’s…
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VX Gets the Go Ahead
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After an epic battle, Virgin America (IATA code: VX, seriously) has finally received approval from the DOT to start flying. They jumped through a million hoops, and now they’ve finally finished this part of the…
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Not So Fast, LAX
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To say that this was a bad week for LAWA (the organization that runs LAX) would be an understatement. I mean, if this were a football game, there would have been a flag for unnecessary…
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Long Time, No Alitalia
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It has been far too long since we’ve checked in on the airline I love to hate, Alitalia. So what’s new? Well, They just reported stellar first quarter earnings. By stellar, I mean absolutely horrible,…
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Arpey’s Case of Foot-in-Mouth Disease
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Oh man. I really didn’t think this one could get much worse, but American CEO Gerard Arpey just found a way. Yesterday was the big annual shareholder’s meeting for the airline, and the front line…
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Why Am I Not Talking About JetBlue’s Move at The Top?
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It’s funny. When JetBlue announced that the Board had decided to remove David Neeleman as CEO last week, I didn’t even think twice about blogging it. Now that I’ve gotten a few emails from people…
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Airplane Porn From the Pacific
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Last week, both Singapore and Aloha came out with some cool looking new planes. First up, let’s take a look at Singapore’s first A380 to come out of the paint shop. I definitely don’t think…
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Trip Report: ExpressJetting to Tucson
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I was really excited about this trip for many reasons. First, my brother was graduating from medical school. Second, I was able to fly ExpressJet, a new airline for me (well, new if you don’t…
