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3 Links I Love: Avianca Drama, Buffett on His Airline Purchases, United’s New Way of Serving Venezuela
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This week’s featured link: United-Avianca Deal Becomes Target of Lawsuit by Kingsland – Bloomberg Avianca has been desperately looking for new investors, and United has…
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United’s Big Summer Expansion Confirms Its Focus on Connecting Traffic
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When Scott Kirby left American to take over as President of United, he noted that United needed to do a better job of attracting connecting…
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My Last Delta Trip From Terminal 5 at LAX Takes Me to Mexico (Trip Report)
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A couple years ago, three friends and I decided to put together a guys’ trip to Cabo. Two years later, we decided to do it…
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Norwegian Schedules the First of What Will Likely Be Many 737 MAXs Crossing the Atlantic
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It’s been in the works for years, and now it’s official. Norwegian last week unveiled its first 737 MAX schedules for transatlantic flights and put…
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Cranky on the Web: Norwegian’s New York Plans
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Cheap International Flights Set To Take Off From Upstate Airport – CBS 2 New York I did a Skype interview with the local CBS in…
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3 Links I Love: Air Asia’s Growth in the US, Norwegian Too, Delta Winglet Porn
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This week’s featured link: CEO Interview: Air Asia X’s Plan to Make Cheap Trans-Pacific Flights a Reality – Skift When I wrote about Air Asia…
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American Tests Markets in Basic Economy Rollout While United Focuses on Fare Levels
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A funny thing happened on Tuesday when both American and United officially filed their first Basic Economy fares in the market. (If you aren’t familiar…
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Spirit is Fulfilling Its Promise to Run a Better Operation
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If you’ve flown Spirit lately, you may have noticed something surprising: the airline is running a better operation than it has in years. It looks…
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Cranky on the Web: Screens in Airplane Seats
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Monday is a holiday, so no post for me. I’ll be back Tuesday. Airlines Phasing Out Screens Because You Are All on Your Devices –…
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3 Links I Love: Another Defection From American to United, Frontier Trying to Fix Things, United’s New 777-300ER
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This week’s featured link: Yet Another American Airlines Executive Leaves for United – Airways Word starting leaking out quickly on Wednesday. Andrew Nocella, former Chief…
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Southwest’s Schedule Will Start Varying More Each Day of the Week
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If you call in to Southwest’s reservations line today, you’ll get a message telling you that if you’re traveling before May 9, press 1. If…
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International Travel Demand to the US Should Be an Enormous Concern
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With so much uncertainty surrounding travel and visa policies for people coming to the US, demand has unsurprisingly started to drop. If I’m a US-based…
