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Delta Adds Wifi to Regional Jets, Gets Closer to Matching the Mainline Experience
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For years, we’ve all put up with airlines having two types of onboard products. They had the mainline product on larger airplanes actually flown by that airline and then they had the regional product for…
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United CEO Discusses Whether Cleveland Can Support a Hub, I Remain Skeptical
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A favorite pastime in airline mergers is to guess which routes stay and which routes go. When it comes to the United/Continental merger, most of the talk in that arena has focused on little Cleveland.…
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Cranky on the Web (November 22-26)
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Qantas A380: Now We Know Why the Planes Were Grounded — and It’s Scary – BNET Headwinds As more details on the A380 grounding come out, it becomes more clear why Qantas grounded the airplane.…
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Topic of the Week: The True Meaning of Thanksgiving
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I hope you’re all filled with turkey and stuffing after yesterday. Now, let’s talk about how your trip out was. Did you get stuck in any long lines? Bad weather? Horrible delays? Or did everything…
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It’s Body Scanner Opt-Out Day but I Don’t Support the Protest
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I know it’s Wednesday and I should be going dark, but with Thanksgiving tomorrow, I decided to switch things around and post today instead. Here we are on November 24, and if one group has…
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Delta Brings Unique Quick Dining to JFK
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If there’s one area where Delta is really working to do some innovative stuff, it’s in airport dining. The airline has already made some major changes at LaGuardia, and now Delta is doing something cool…
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A Modest Proposal on Tarmac Delays
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It looks like my wish for a more thorough review of tarmac delays has been answered. Instead of the off-the-cuff claim of victory that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has been espousing, Darryl Jenkins and…
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Cranky on the Web (November 15-19)
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good news, bad news from cranky – Anti-Bride It’s another good news, bad news roundtrip on antibride.com. Qantas A380: Rolls-Royce Eats Crow, May Replace Dozens of Engines – BNET Headwinds The problems with Rolls Royce…
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Topic of the Week: The New American Airlines Homepage
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A bunch of you asked for discussion topics on Fridays, so I thought I’d give it a shot. This week, let’s talk about the new AA.com homepage. Like Delta did, American has refreshed its homepage…
