Recent Articles
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3 Links I Love: Grounding Southwest Planes, Delta Nabs Silver, Ontario at 3
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I will be rolling out a redesign of the blog in the next week or so. If you’d like to see preview, go here. If…
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JetBlue’s Take on Basic Economy Brings More of the Same Plus a Blizzard of Options
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JetBlue’s long-awaited Basic Economy entry has now gone live in limited markets, and with it comes a big reorganization in how JetBlue approaches it fare…
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Flying United to Chicago for Media Day (Trip Report)
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After a few days in Washington, it was time to move on to Chicago for United’s Global Media Day. Even though I flew into Dulles…
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Corrected: Shining the Spotlight on October’s Operational Problem Children
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My apologies, but I somehow mixed up the A14 numbers for Southwest, Frontier, and United. This has been corrected, and I have updated the post…
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Cranky on the Web: Should Southwest Buy Another Airline?
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If Southwest wanted to acquire another airline, which would it target? – Dallas Business JournalA research note suggesting that Southwest might consider buying another airline…
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3 Links I Love: Flight Operated by Bus, Alaska Crashes, Goodbye Old MSY
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This week’s featured link: The bus to the plane: On board Sun Country’s first Landline connection – TPGI love multi-modal, and here’s a trip report…
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IAG Makes a Play For Madrid and Latin America With Air Europa Acquisition
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When Delta snatched LATAM from American’s arms, I said this: Delta has fundamentally re-drawn the map around the globe. If long-entrenched partners who were about…
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Flying the Friendly But Broken Skies to Washington (Trip Report)
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To say I don’t fly United often is an understatement. The last time I set foot on a United-operated airplane was more than two years…
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United Media Day: Endless Ideas and Abundant Energy
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The fact that United had a media day at all should tell you something. In the more than 13 years I’ve been writing about the…
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Cranky on the Web: Boeing’s Full-Page Apology, The 550 in Indy
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Boeing Takes Out Full-Page Ads Before CEO Testifies – AdWeekI was asked how I felt about the full page ad Boeing took out in the…
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3 Links I Love: Tarmac Delay Lives, Bumpy LAX-it, Lion Air Report
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This week’s featured link: DOT proposes changes to extended tarmac delay regulation – ATWJust when you thought the tarmac delay rule was set in stone……
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Norwegian Sees Income Improvement, But The Balance Sheet Problem Looms
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I realize that’s a headline only an accountant can love, but, well, it’s a nice summary of the issue at hand. A change in strategy…
