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Topic of the Week: How Important Should Operational Performance Be for Spirit?
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At the Boyd conference this week, Spirit gave a long presentation about its efforts to educate people about its unbundled strategy and why it’s good. I buy that, but other than a bullet point talking…
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Across the Aisle From Virgin America’s CEO on His Plan to Force Legacy Carriers to Let Him Use Their Feeder Networks
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I was at the International Aviation Forecast Summit (more commonly called the Boyd conference) earlier this week and had the chance to sit down with several airline execs. One that I hadn’t planned at all…
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SAS is Returning to Los Angeles, a City with Which it Has Surprisingly Deep Ties
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On March 14th of next year, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will begin flying to LAX for the first time in 20 years. While a new international route is generally not a huge deal at LAX, there…
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Who the F*&@ is OneJet?
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It’s been awhile since I’ve written one of these posts, because there really haven’t been many new entrants worth profiling. OneJet, however, caught my eye when it came on the scene earlier this year. This…
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Cranky on the Web – Getting Upgraded, Horrible Hotel Fees
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Flying Coach? 5 Tactics for Getting an Upgrade. – Entrepreneur I was asked for my thoughts on how to get upgrades without paying for them and in general I said it just doesn’t really happen…
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Topic of the Week: American Leaving Tel Aviv
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American has announced that it will drop the legacy US Airways flight to Tel Aviv early next year. The reason? The airline says it has lost a ton of money. Do you buy it or…
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A Primer On the Complex World of Airline Ticket Changes
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If you want to change an airline ticket, you’re probably looking for a quick and simple answer as to how much it’ll cost. So why is it that it’s so common for airline websites to…
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New York LaGuardia’s Makeover Looks Nice But It Fails to Fix Some of the More Severe Issues
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LaGuardia sucks, and we all know it. But since it’s the most convenient commercial airport to Manhattan, it’s an important place. Instead of shutting the thing down as should probably happen, we’ve seen about 2,700…
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The Unrealistic and Unhelpful Expectations of Airline Passenger Advocates
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Last Tuesday morning, I was busy trying to corral the kids when I heard the word “airline” coming from the Today Show in the other room. Of course, I shuddered. When the Today Show covers…
