Recent Articles
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3 Links I Love: Retirement of a Salesman, Interviews with KLM and Southwest CEOs
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This week’s featured link: Leahy reflects on 33 years at Airbus – Leeham News For those who don’t know, one of the greatest salespeople the…
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WestJet Just Keeps Adding Complexity, And Somehow It Works
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In general, complexity is the enemy of any good low-cost airline. Sure, by nature, legacy carriers have complexity in spades, and that’s why low-cost carriers…
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How Does That Movie Make It To the Airplane? Global Eagle Explains (Sponsored Post)
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This is the kind of sponsored post that I really like doing. Global Eagle had me come down to take a tour of its entertainment…
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Southern Airways Express Serves Small Cities… And Makes Money
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My ongoing, unorganized series looking at the demise of small city service in the US has been pretty depressing. Sure there are some ideas on…
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Delta Swaps International and Domestic Aircraft To Fight the Low Cost Carriers
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It was more than a year and a half ago when I wrote this about JetBlue’s first big expansion of its Mint premium cabin beyond…
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Flat Beds on the American 767-300, Then Coach Home (Trip Report)
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As I wrote yesterday, it’s a quiet Thanksgiving week, so I’m posting my recent trip reports to get them out of the queue. There’s no…
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JetBlue Mint, Take 2: Now With Food! (Trip Report)
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It’s Thanksgiving week, so I’ve decided to lie low and post two trip reports today and tomorrow. No post Thursday, and I’ll be back the…
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3 Links I Love: KLM Not LinkedIn, California Pacific Tries Again, the Delta 747 Goodbye
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This week’s featured link: KLM Lets The Customer Decide… – Meanwhile at KLM This is a really interesting read. KLM has one of the more…
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Long Beach and the Unsustainable Southwest Effect
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On June 5, 2016, Southwest launched its first flights from Long Beach with 4 daily to Oakland. With a year’s worth of data from the…
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Riding into the Sunset With The Last United 747
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Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that United retired its 747s last week with one remarkable last flight. I was devastated that I…
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How the Experts Think We Can Improve Small Community Air Service
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The problem of declining small city service is far from being resolved, and I have a few posts lined up to address the issue. Recently,…
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Cranky on the Web: New Ideas (Some Terrible) for Inflight Entertainment
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The future of in-flight entertainment may include gyms – Marketwatch Don’t let the title fool you. The future of inflight entertainment will NOT include gyms.…
