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3 Links I Love: JLo Plays for the Airlines, Main Select, easyJet Goes Bigger
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This Week’s Featured Link 78th IATA Annual General Meeting Recap – AirwaysI’ve never gone to an AGM. I almost went one year, because as I understand it, you can’t turn around without running into a…
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Long Beach’s New Ticketing Lobby Is The First Step in Restoring the Historic Terminal
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In early May, Long Beach Airport opened a brand new ticketing lobby just to the south of the historical terminal building. Though I’ve seem some lament the loss of the historic structure for regular airline…
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JetBlue Sinks Frontier’s Offer With Higher Bid for Spirit
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With only 10 days to go until the now-rescheduled shareholder vote, JetBlue has effectively torpedoed the Frontier/Spirit merger as it stands by bumping its own offer up again. Unless Frontier is willing to make big…
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Secretary Buttigieg Tries to Turn the Screws on the Airlines, But There is No Easy Solution
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg summoned the airlines to a meeting saying what basically every American has been thinking this summer… “stop your operations from sucking.” It is a good sentiment, and the airlines publicly…
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Cranky on the Web: Rising Fares, Dropping Tests
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The cost of hopping on a plane to get away from it all is skyrocketing – NPR Morning EditionI spoke with Morning Edition about the seemingly ever-increasing cost of flying. US lifts COVID-19 test requirement…
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3 Links I Love: United Gets a Divorce, Goodbye Turkish Airlines, Zipping to Tokyo, AirAsia X
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This Week’s Featured Link United Air Exits Stake in Parent of Former ExpressJet Airlines – BloombergThis was such a strange little legacy… United owning nearly half of an independent regional flying out of Reno. Of…
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Regional Airlines are Racing Into Uncharted Territory With Big Pilot Pay Bumps
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For pilots who came up through the regional world in the 1990s and 2000s, the news must have been a shock. Envoy and Piedmont, two of American’s wholly-owned regional airlines, are now paying first year…
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US COVID International Air Testing Requirement Dies at 17 Months of Age
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The US COVID testing requirement for inbound international air travelers, “Testy” for short, died on Friday, June 10 just before turning 17 months of age. His sudden death was oft-rumored but never truly expected. He…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – The Summer of Airline Madness
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Cranky Talk – The Summer of Airline Madness And we are back after Dave’s nuptials. What are we talking about? The same thing every traveler is talking about… how crazy things are right now. Sure,…
