Recent Articles
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United is Doing a Better Job of Reaccommodating Schedule Changes (Tales From the Field)
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I have a very strange Tales From the Field post this week. What’s so odd about it? It doesn’t involve me fighting an airline. In…
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Spirit and Frontier Seem to Be Up for a Fight
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For years, Spirit has said that it has hundreds of markets it can serve profitably in the US. With so much room for it and…
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Cranky on the Web (September 21 – October 3)
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Some of these are a bit old because I didn’t post last Saturday while I was on vacation. But none of these were time-sensitive. Airlines…
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Topic of the Week: Will PEOPLExpress Fly Again?
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That didn’t take long. PEOPLExpress has already shut down thanks to what it says was a problem with airplanes from its contractor Vision. I’m not…
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Eight First Class Tickets on Delta to Maui for the Price of One (Trip Report)
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For the third year in a row, we had decided to take a late Summer/early Fall vacation to Maui. Two years ago, we flew Alaska.…
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Dallas Tells Delta to Take a Hike, No Room For the Airline at Love Field
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Remember how the Department of Justice (DOJ) was so concerned with preserving competition at Dallas/Love Field as part of the American/US Airways merger? Well, the…
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The Air France Pilot Strike Ends With Absolutely Nothing Resolved
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When I left on vacation last week, Air France’s pilots were striking. When I returned on Saturday, nothing had changed. Yesterday, however, the pilots came…
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Cranky on the Web (September 15 – 19) and Some Reading Material for the Next Week
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Usually when I go on vacation, I try to either write a bunch of posts myself or wrangle up some guest posts. This time, that’s…
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Topic of the Week: What You Would Like to See From Southwest
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I’ve written this week about how Southwest needs to figure out what it wants to be, but let’s turn the tables. What do you think…
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My Last Trip on the Old Southwest (Trip Report)
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There was something about this trip that felt like the end of an era. On the eve of the repeal of the Wright Amendment, Southwest…
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How Southwest Tanked Its Operational Performance… And Then Took a Year to Fix It
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In early 2013, Southwest realized that demand was strong. Faced with a set number of airplanes, it had two choices. It could keep flying its…
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Southwest Reveals a New Visual Identity, But You Better Not Call It a New Brand
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It had been years since Southwest last had a media day, so I was surprised to see an invite come in the mail a few…
