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DOT Finally Makes Operational Statistics Accurate
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It took years of fighting, regulation, and delays but the DOT has finally started to publish a useful look at airline operational performance. Now you can see the stats by brand (including regional airlines) and not…
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JetBlue Follows the Numbers
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JetBlue has taken a fair bit of flak lately for falling in line with other airlines and their less customer-friendly policies, but this really isn’t all that surprising. After all, JetBlue is a public company,…
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3 Links I Love: Comet Across the Atlantic, Overhead Bin Sensors, A380 in Trouble
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This week’s featured link:British Airways Celebrates 60 Years of Jet Flights Across the Atlantic (+Photos) – AirwaysI was invited to join this event in London by BA, but I wasn’t able to go. (There was…
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CEOs of Virgin Atlantic and LanzaTech Talk About the Bright Future of Recaptured Carbon as Fuel
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Earlier this month, I was invited to dig into the weeds on Virgin Atlantic’s latest alternative fuel efforts and take the first flight using the new fuel developed by LanzaTech. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to…
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A New Book: 3 Feet to the Left
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How about something a bit different today? It’s not uncommon for me to get requests to read a manuscript, and I will often do so if it’s related to the airline industry. But it’s not…
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A Vision for American in Phoenix: Mountains to the World (The Optimistic View)
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I wrote about possible doom and gloom for American’s Phoenix hub last week, but today I’m going to put the rose-colored glasses on and look at this in a different way… the way American itself…
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Cranky on the Web: Discovering Stopovers
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From Layover to Stayover – Travel WeeklyI had a long conversation with the author for this lengthy and interesting piece about stopover programs. If you have any interest in their evolution, then you might enjoy…
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3 Links I Love: JetBlue Gets Basic, Primera Fails, How to Launch a New Route
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This week’s featured link:Where can we Inspire Humanity next? – JetBlue Out of the BlueBasic Economy is coming to JetBlue, and that’s yet another proof point that the lure of low fares is inescapable. It’s hard…
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American’s New Flights Do Not Bode Well for the Phoenix Hub (The Pessimistic View)
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Shortly after US Airways and American announced their merger in 2013, I made some predictions about what I thought would happen to the various hubs. So far, those have held up fairly well with a…
