Recent Articles
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Topic of the Week: Will Delta’s Flight Attendants Join a Union?
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Seems like a “labor” kind of week after Monday’s post, but let’s talk about Delta this time. Delta is kind of an anomaly in that…
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Airbus Thinks Its New A321LR Will Be Able to Replace the 757
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The 737 and A320 families have grown a lot since they were launched, both in number of orders and in size. But while they’ve been…
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It’s Time for American’s Pilots To Decide If They Want More Money or Not
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We all know how American’s flight attendant contract negotiations turned out. A slim majority of flight attendants actually decided they preferred a worse contract with…
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Delta Moves Most Regional Flights to Terminal 4 at JFK Tomorrow
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It looks like Delta’s plan for a better JFK is proceeding along quite nicely. Phase 2 of the project opens tomorrow when most of Delta’s…
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Cranky on the Web – Reviewing the Year, More on Hidden City Ticketing, Delays on the Tarmac and on Southwest
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In the Trenches: Reviewing the Year and Preparing for 2015 – Small Business Center I take a quick look back on 2014 and talk about…
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Topic of the Week: Is JetBlue Overreacting to Spirit?
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On Wednesday, Spirit announced it would fly from Boston to Vegas and seasonally to both Cleveland and Detroit. About 10 seconds later, JetBlue said it…
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United Has an Operational Problem in Denver
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We’ve seen the same story play out all over the country. Airlines figure they can save some money by outsourcing their airport ramp operations and,…
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LAX is About to Spend a Crazy Amount of Money, and I Like the Plan
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I’m generally not shy about criticizing LAX for overspending on silly projects. Oh sure, the new Bradley Terminal was needed, but it could have been…
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Why Airlines Need Hidden City Ticketing to Be Possible but They Also Can’t Let You Take Advantage of It
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Welcome back from the holidays. I’m sure you’re trying to ease back into things at work, but there’s no time for that here. Let’s dive…
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Cranky on the Web – Getting Bumped, LAX Grows, After Hours Email
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Why airlines bump passengers, and what you can do about it – Vox I spoke with Vox on a big article they put together about…
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Topic of the Week: 2014 Flying Summary
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Well that’s it. 2014 is over and I had an interesting year of flying. I didn’t leave the country once, which seems crazy. But I…
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Apparently Travel With Kids Gets Worse Before It Gets Better (Trip Report)
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Words cannot explain how much I was dreading this trip. I’ve had trouble with my son on airplanes before, but with him approaching 3 years…
