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Airline Information Going Mobile
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Ah, Memorial Day. The start of summer and the start of airline delay season. Is there anything worse than getting stuck in a thunderstorm in Chicago and not being able to do anything except sit…
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FAA To Let Airlines Take the Long Way Home
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In case you were wondering, no, I am not above using a Supertramp song title in my subject line to lure readers. (Would that really lure anyone?) Anyway . . . The FAA came out…
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Yet Another Reason to Love the 787
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The rollout of the first 787 is only 46 days away, and I can’t wait. Really, what I’m excited about is flying on one, but the rollout obviously has to come first. As we get…
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Delta Change – Better Late Than Never
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Well, it took them 15 days, but I finally received the following email from Delta yesterday: Hi Brett, We think the idea you sent us was excellent. In fact, it’s being featured along with other…
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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,…
