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Flying Air New Zealand In Style to Auckland (Trip Report)
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Good morning from beautiful Auckland, New Zealand. Don’t ask me what day it is, because I have no idea. This whole international dateline thing still messes me up. Over the weekend, Air New Zealand flew…
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Cranky on the Web (January 18 – 22)
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American Airlines, oneworld Increased Offer to Japan Air Lines May Not Be Enough – BNET American is desperately trying to keep JAL in oneworld, but it’s not looking good. oneworld Alliance Will be Much Weaker…
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34 People on US Airways Express Jet in West Virginia Love EMAS
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How many of you know what EMAS is? I can guarantee that the 34 people on a US Airways Express jet in Charleston West Virginia now are intimately familiar with it. It prevented them from…
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Southwest Explores Change Fees, Bag Fees, and More
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As I mentioned yesterday, Southwest has been circulating a survey to a bunch of fliers to try to explore all sorts of ways to make changes to their offerings. This explores change fees, bag fees,…
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Southwest Looks at Revamping Rapid Rewards, Adding Same Day Standby Rules
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Southwest has been circulating a survey to a bunch of fliers to try to explore all sorts of ways to make changes to their offerings. Fortunately, a thoughtful reader took screenshots of every single page…
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How You Can Get Airlines to Stop Raising Bag Fees
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I feel like I’ve approached this topic before, but in light of the airlines raising bag fees once again to $25 for the first bag and $35 for the second, I thought it was worth…
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Let’s Celebrate Marlon Green, Ruth Carol Taylor, and Other Pioneering Black People in Commercial Aviation
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It’s Martin Luther King Jr Day, so I thought it might be a good time to honor some of the pioneering figures in American commercial aviation. Though Jackie Robinson’s baseball debut in the major leagues…
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My Code of Ethics is Live
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Thank you to everyone for your feedback on my proposed code of ethics last week. I was up in the mountains this weekend and it gave me plenty of time to review everything and get…
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Cranky on the Web (January 11-15)
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US Airways Pilots Infighting Grows Worse by the Day – BNET It appears the US East pilots are tired of fighting the west pilots. Now they’re turning on each other. Unreal. Airline Capacity Cuts Slow…
