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Dual Bridges for Your Boarding Pleasure
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I’ve always liked boarding planes via airstairs. Yes, it’s true that part of the fun is that I get to walk by the engine and watch all the action, but there’s more to it. I’ve…
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Are Last Minute Deals Dead?
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The Arizona Republic’s Dawn Gilbertson wrote an article earlier this week talking about the fun-filled world of last minute web fares. According to the article, the web fares are a dying breed. I’m not quite…
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Jet Airways Steps Up Inflight Entertainment on 737s
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Smaller and smaller planes are travelling further and further every day. It used to be that every flight over the ocean had two aisles and at least 3 engines. These days, you’ll find single aisle…
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Frontier to Buy Turboprops
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Frontier Airlines announced today they’re going to buy 10 of the 74 seat Dash 8 Q400 turboprops made by Bombardier. They’re also looking for more regional jets to be operated by a partner airline in…
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Is BWIA Finally Dead?
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Conflicting reports are coming out of the Carribean on the reported death of BWIA, an government-owned airline out of Trinidad & Tobago. It sounds like it all started with a meeting to discuss the future…
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New Flights a Plenty (And Some Canceled Ones as Well)
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There hasn’t been much to talk about in the way of new flights lately, but I’ve gathered some of them here for your reading pleasure . . . *Allegiant Air continues to expand with its…
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If It’s Monday, It’s Delta Time
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Those of you who read my posts on the PriceGrabber Discussion forums will remember that during the summer schedule ramp-up, it seemed like every Monday Delta would announce a slew of new destinations and routes.…
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Delta Retires the 737-200
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Talk about a workhorse of an airplane. On Friday, Delta finally retired the last of its 737-200 aircraft. You might remember those as being the ones with the really long cigar-shaped, Pratt & Whitney engines…
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Airplane Porn: US Airways 737-300 in New Colors
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We dorks have been waiting for this one for awhile. While US Airways had been painting Airbuses in the new colors like crazy, they had yet to paint a single 737 . . . until…
