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Cranky on the Web: JetBlue Cuts Long Beach Again, An Airlines We Lost Interview
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JetBlue drops Oakland, shrinks Long Beach amid broader route shakeup – TPGJetBlue is cutting Long Beach again, and I chimed in for this TPG article. I, as you can imagine, have much more to say…
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3 Links I Love: Brutally Boeing, Flybe Saved, American Fights in Boston
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This week’s featured link December 2019 Letter – richardaboulafia.comI keep wanting to write about the ever-worsening situation at Boeing, but I just don’t pay close enough attention to the aerospace side to be able to…
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Forget Fancy Tech; Delta Can Win Way More Friends By Tackling the Change Fee
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Dawn Gilbertson over at USA Today did some good work to discover that Delta may be considering shaking up the hated change fee. When she reached out to me for comment, I couldn’t help but…
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A Look at Parallel Reality, Delta's Wall of Messages Directed at Individual Travelers
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Delta CEO Ed Bastian’s wide-ranging keynote last week rolled out all sorts of technological goodies, but there was only one that really caught my eye. PARALLEL REALITY is a technology that can project unique, personalized…
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Strange Math: A Fight for 27, or 29, or 39 New Gates in Denver
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When Denver International Airport replaced Stapleton in the 1990s, it was designed to grow. Granted, at the time, it was hard to imagine an actual need for that since it was gigantic. But here we…
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Cranky on the Web: Airplane Movie Mistakes
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When movies make airplane fanatics cringe – SFGateThis should probably be titled “stuff that 99 percent of people in the world don’t care about,” but I was more than happy to comment for the story…
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3 Links I Love: A Ukrainian Look at the Crash, Another Hall-of-Famer Retires, JetBlue Goes Green(er)
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This Week’s Featured Link How Ukrainian plane crash went from ‘engine failure’ to ‘Iranian attack’ – Kyiv PostI find myself wondering if we’ll every truly know what brought down the Ukrainian plane upon departure out…
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Delta's CES Appearance Puts Things Into Perspective
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Delta CEO Ed Bastian gave a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Tuesday. Let that sink in for a minute. The idea that an airline would give a speech about technology on…
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The Cranky Flier Interview: Breakfast with the CEO of Ontario Airport
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As the holidays approached, I sat down with Mark Thorpe, CEO of Ontario International Airport Authority. I’ve actually known Mark since college, but we reconnected when he was working for Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA)…
