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Cranky on the Web (March 25 – 29)
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Southwest Airlines: We’re Not Really About Cheap Flights Anymore – Time I spoke with Brad Tuttle at Time as a follow-up to my column about Southwest’s new ad campaign. Critics: United frequent-flier lawsuit is ‘absurd’…
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Topic of the Week: Lufthansa Thinking About Long Haul, Low Cost Carrier
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It looks like Lufthansa is batting around the idea of starting up a long haul low cost carrier. *sigh* This has never worked before, but apparently Lufthansa wants to try it again. What do you…
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The View is Getting Better at JFK’s T4 – Behind the Scenes of Delta’s Expansion (Guest Post)
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Anyone flown through Terminal 3 at JFK on Delta lately? Fortunately, that miserable experience is soon coming to an end with the opening of Delta’s new Terminal 4 expansion in May. Justin Harrison works with…
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Can Wifi Really Be a Differentiator for JetBlue?
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When JetBlue first launched, it used inflight entertainment as one of the greatest initial product differentiators of all time, and now it’s trying to do it again with a new breed of wifi. Is this…
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And Now For a Really Stupid Lawsuit
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I received a request from Janet Cho at the Cleveland Plain Dealer to comment on a story last week about a man suing United for the way the airline awards miles. This lawsuit got me…
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Cranky on the Web (March 18 – 22)
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No More Lost Bags? US Airways Now Lets You Track Luggage in Real Time – Conde Nast Daily Traveler US Airways has quietly launched its real time bag tracking system where travelers can see where…
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Topic of the Week: JetBlue Goes Premium
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In annoyingly terse brief this week, JetBlue announced that it would introduce a “premium transcon product.” I call it annoying because they told us virtually nothing else except that plans will be revealed later this…
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Southwest’s Ironic and Appropriate New Ad Campaign
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Has everyone seen Southwest’s latest ad campaign? I’ll guess not since the new 60 second spot debuted in the unwatched first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. So, take a minute (literally) and watch…
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I Wrote Another Book – You Can Win a Copy
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Long time readers of the blog know that several years ago, I wrote Where the Hell Am I Going?, a book about my literal and figurative journey after getting laid off just before my wedding.…
