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Sun Country Grows Every Which Way
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In recent history, Sun Country has been an afterthought. It was a small airline that during the best of times was marginally profitable. It focused almost entirely on flying people from Minneapolis to… everywhere. Things…
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The Most Popular Movies and TV Shows In the Air
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I don’t remember this being a thing in the past, but airlines now seem to be releasing details on the most-watched entertainment options onboard from the previous year. Initially I was going to compare between…
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The Circle is Complete: ExpressJet’s Long Journey Ends Where It Began
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It has been a long road for the regional carrier ExpressJet, but the recent announcement that ExpressJet would be acquired by United (through a subsidiary) brings the airline right back to where it started. It…
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Cranky on the Web: 2019 Air Travel Trends
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How Air Travel Will Change in 2019 – WendyPerrin.comJust as was the case last year, I was asked to write up some air travel trends for 2019. See if you agree or have others to…
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Herb Kelleher Has Left the Building
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I very rarely write obituaries when someone in the industry dies, and for Herb Kelleher, founder and long-time president of Southwest Airlines… I won’t make an exception. That’s not because I don’t want to wax…
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There Has to Be a Better Way to Handle Operational Disruption
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I look forward to the week between Christmas and New Years being nice and quiet… but that didn’t happen this year. Why not? Well, a series of nasty storms rolled through the middle of the…
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2018 Flying Summary
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I said I was going to leave North America in 2018, but that didn’t happen. For a variety of reasons (many work-related), I had to scrap trips that I had planned. In the end, I…
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Reviewing Your 2018 Predictions and Making Your 2019 Picks
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It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means. It’s time to look back at your predictions for 2018 as well as make you picks for what you think will happen in…
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Airlines We Lost 2018
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As we wind toward the end of the year, it is time to take a look back on what we’ve lost in 2018. Dozens of airlines failed this year, and that’s not a surprise. Not…
