Recent Articles
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Time Based Separation Goes Live At Heathrow, Should Significantly Cut Delays
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If you haven’t heard of time based separation, you’re going to like this. NATS, the UK’s air traffic control service, worked with Lockheed Martin to…
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Cranky on the Web: Testing a New Business Practice
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In the Trenches: Testing a New Business Practice – Small Business Center We done flight monitoring the same way ever since we started, but now…
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Topic of the Week: The FAA Steps Up Oversight at United
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The headline in the Wall Street Journal says “FAA Calls Out ‘Systemic’ Hazard at United.” (You can Google the title to get to the article…
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How Virgin America Will Fly A320s to Hawai’i When Nobody Else Has Even Tried
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We’ve heard rumors about it for years, and now it’s finally going to happen. Virgin America will start flying from San Francisco to Honolulu on…
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The Fight Over Toronto’s Billy Bishop City Airport Escalates With Air Canada Taking a Stand
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If you’re looking for an entertaining airport fight, then you might want to look north toward Canada. Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport lies right near downtown…
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If There’s Going to Be Another US Airline Strike, It’ll Probably Be at Allegiant
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There’s been a lot of talk about how consolidation will mean the end of the airline strike in the US. After all, these airlines are…
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Cranky on the Web – Eliminating Turbulence, Planning a Company Retreat
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Altitude Adjustment – APEX Experience Magazine This was really fun to research. I looked into the different technologies being used to help eliminate turbulence. Pretty…
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Topic of the Week: American Eliminates Customer Relations Phone Number
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Sounds like American has decided to eliminate its customer relations phone number. Note, this isn’t reservations. This is just for customer relations, which deals with…
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Delta Announces It Will Stop Informing Travelers How Many Miles They’ve Earned
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I know today isn’t a normal posting day, but this news was important enough for me to move up the posting schedule by 24 hours.…
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Delta Keeps Its Seattle-Haneda Flight But It Can No Longer Squat On It
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An interesting decision came out of the Department of Transportation (DOT) last week in regards to the fight over Delta’s Seattle-Haneda flight. In short, DOT…
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Thinking About Mental Illness and the Crash of Germanwings Flight 9525
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When an airplane goes down, it usually takes a long time before we know what happened. So it’s shocking on many levels that we already…
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Cranky on the Web – Nobody Will Insure My Employees
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In the Trenches: When Nobody Will Insure Your Employees – Small Business Center I have been trying for months to find a way to provide…
