Recent Articles
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McCain Wants You to Be Able to Fly to Washington/National and New York/LaGuardia From Anywhere in the US
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Let’s say you’re John McCain. You’ve finally had a couple months to relax after a very long and taxing presidential campaign. Now it’s time to…
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One Last Plea to Vote for Me in the 2008 Weblog Awards
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http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-travel-blog/ Since I normally don’t post on Sundays, I figured it wouldn’t be too annoying for me to post one final plea to vote for…
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This Week on BNET (Jan 5 – 9)
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Frontier’s November Results Not as Positive as They May Seem Frontier issued its monthly operating statement for November over the holidays. The results looked great…
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Why I’m Glad the “Glory Days” of Air Travel are Gone
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I saw an op-ed in the New York Times over the holidays from a former TWA flight attendant that got me so riled up, I…
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Airline “Pay Per Minute” Plan Is a Bad One
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Anyone heard of Airtime Airlines out of South Africa? If not, you’re about to hear about it as every blogger that covers airlines is bound…
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You Guys Nominated Me for a 2008 Weblog Award
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It’s time for the 2008 Weblog Awards, and it appears that I’ve actually been nominated by some of you out there as Best Travel Blog.…
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Followup on United’s 777 Reconfiguration
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Yesterday’s post on United’s upcoming 777 reconfiguration generated a bunch of emails and comments. After sifting through everything, it appears that things will be slightly…
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United 777 Premium Reconfiguration Requiring Changes in Coach?
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Ever wonder why United is (finally) working hard to upgrade the 767 and 747 aircraft with the new premium cabin seats, but the 777 is…
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Lufthansa’s Growing Web of Airline Ownership
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It’s a new year, and that means Lufthansa will probably acquire another 15 airlines before the year is out. If I were a betting man,…
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Airlines We Lost in 2008
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It’s time once again for the third annual edition of “Airlines We Lost.” This was a pretty active year, as you can probably imagine. Sadly,…
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Alitalia Ends the Year By Sucking as Usual
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I couldn’t let this year finish up without squeezing in one more post on Alitalia. It’s just too much fun. The airline has finished up…
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Qantas and United Finally Getting Competition to Australia
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For the last few years, Qantas and United have been the only two airlines to get passengers nonstop from the mainland US to Australia (Hawaiian…
