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Topic of the Week: Do You Feel Safe Flying into an Airport Without a Tower?
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As the government continues to fail to do anything about the sequester cuts, the time has come to start closing control towers this weekend. Though these are mostly smaller airports, there are some with commercial…
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Allegiant Slashes Hawai’i Flying This Fall, and It Shouldn’t be a Surprise
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The only thing I’d heard surrounding Allegiant’s Hawai’i flying recently was regarding mechanical problems impacting half the 757 fleet. That caused a bunch of cancellations but it didn’t indicate anything about how well or how…
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Argentina Earns the Cranky Jackass Award for Propping Up Aerolineas Argentinas at the Expense of Real Competition
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There have been so many good news stories about aviation in Latin America lately that it seems like everything is going well. The LAN and TAM merger created a powerhouse, the Avianca/TACA merger is also…
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Virgin America Announces Plan to Rebrand as Alitalia America
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This one certainly came out of left field, but I think it’s a great move. Virgin America announced today that it has decided to rebrand as Alitalia America on June 1. Further, Richard Branson will…
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Cranky on the Web (March 25 – 29)
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Southwest Airlines: We’re Not Really About Cheap Flights Anymore – Time I spoke with Brad Tuttle at Time as a follow-up to my column about Southwest’s new ad campaign. Critics: United frequent-flier lawsuit is ‘absurd’…
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Topic of the Week: Lufthansa Thinking About Long Haul, Low Cost Carrier
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It looks like Lufthansa is batting around the idea of starting up a long haul low cost carrier. *sigh* This has never worked before, but apparently Lufthansa wants to try it again. What do you…
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The View is Getting Better at JFK’s T4 – Behind the Scenes of Delta’s Expansion (Guest Post)
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Anyone flown through Terminal 3 at JFK on Delta lately? Fortunately, that miserable experience is soon coming to an end with the opening of Delta’s new Terminal 4 expansion in May. Justin Harrison works with…
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Can Wifi Really Be a Differentiator for JetBlue?
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When JetBlue first launched, it used inflight entertainment as one of the greatest initial product differentiators of all time, and now it’s trying to do it again with a new breed of wifi. Is this…
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And Now For a Really Stupid Lawsuit
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I received a request from Janet Cho at the Cleveland Plain Dealer to comment on a story last week about a man suing United for the way the airline awards miles. This lawsuit got me…
