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The Premium Boom Continues: The Race is On to Grow Short-Haul Opportunity
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As we discussed yesterday, in the long-haul market, premium upsell options have long been part of the game, but in the short-haul market, that has not been the case. It wasn’t all that long ago…
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The Premium Boom Continues: Airlines Learn From Long-Haul Success
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The announcements seem to be coming fast and furious. Coming out of the pandemic, people have shown a rapidly-increasing willigness to pay up for more comfort and a better experience on airplanes. This is nothing…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: The Crowd Strikes Back, A Pair of Good Earnings Reports
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CrowdStrike Brings Airlines to Their Knees You may not have heard of CrowdStrike previously, but today it becomes a househould name as the company pushed faulty Microsoft updates that derailed IT systems around the globe,…
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Alaska Continues to Crush It In Summer, But It Has Winter Problems
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Alaska announced its Q2 earnings yesterday, and the results were predictably very good. The airline beat estimates and came through with a 15.8 percent margin while running a solid operation. Sure, Q3 guidance was softer,…
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Route Overlap is a Big Problem for US ULCCs
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There is much to be written on what has happened to the ultra low-cost carriers in a post-pandemic world. We will probably see some not-so-great results when Frontier and Spirit report Q2 numbers soon. While…
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Airport Death Match: Is SFO or OAK Faster to San Francisco?
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As I mentioned in my trip report last week, I flew into SFO on a recent trip to the Bay Area but back out of Oakland. This wasn’t by design, but since I knew they…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: Delta’s Q2 Financials, Alaska’s Winter Plans
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Delta Releases Q2 Earnings, Announces New Partner Delta Air Lines ended June with a $2.3 billion profit on $16.7 billion gross revenue for the year’s second quarter, earning just a hair over $2 per share…
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Delta and Southwest Underwhelm on a Quick Bay Area Trip (Trip Report)
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My wife and I had to do a quick trip up to San Francisco for a Saturday night event. Fares were high, and schedule options were fewer than I’d expected. In the end, the best…
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Who the Heck is Aero?
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It’s been a long time since I’ve written up an entry in this illustrious series profiling newer and little-known airlines, and you may notice the name has changed a bit. It turns out that it’s…
