• Are Last Minute Deals Dead?

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    The Arizona Republic’s Dawn Gilbertson wrote an article earlier this week talking about the fun-filled world of last minute web fares. According to the article, the web fares are a dying breed. I’m not quite…

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    Jet Airways Steps Up Inflight Entertainment on 737s

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    Smaller and smaller planes are travelling further and further every day. It used to be that every flight over the ocean had two aisles and at least 3 engines. These days, you’ll find single aisle…

  • Is BWIA Finally Dead?

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    Conflicting reports are coming out of the Carribean on the reported death of BWIA, an government-owned airline out of Trinidad & Tobago. It sounds like it all started with a meeting to discuss the future…

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    Frontier to Buy Turboprops

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    Frontier Airlines announced today they’re going to buy 10 of the 74 seat Dash 8 Q400 turboprops made by Bombardier. They’re also looking for more regional jets to be operated by a partner airline in…

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    New Flights a Plenty (And Some Canceled Ones as Well)

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    There hasn’t been much to talk about in the way of new flights lately, but I’ve gathered some of them here for your reading pleasure . . . *Allegiant Air continues to expand with its…

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    If It’s Monday, It’s Delta Time

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    Those of you who read my posts on the PriceGrabber Discussion forums will remember that during the summer schedule ramp-up, it seemed like every Monday Delta would announce a slew of new destinations and routes.…

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    Airplane Porn: US Airways 737-300 in New Colors

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    We dorks have been waiting for this one for awhile. While US Airways had been painting Airbuses in the new colors like crazy, they had yet to paint a single 737 . . . until…

  • Delta Retires the 737-200

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    Talk about a workhorse of an airplane. On Friday, Delta finally retired the last of its 737-200 aircraft. You might remember those as being the ones with the really long cigar-shaped, Pratt & Whitney engines…

  • CanJet Airlines Ends Scheduled Service

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    Poor CanJet. First they announce they’re going to shut down all scheduled flights and then I throw them on the ACR (Abusers of Capitalization Rules) list. The airline flies primarily from Toronto to eastern Canadian…

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