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3 Links I Love: Ode to the Dash, Fare Weakness, Asiana Crash Response
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This week’s featured link: Dash 8: The Piedmont Story – YouTube As you know from reading the blog, Piedmont just retired its last Dash 8 from service. It had flown that airplane for more than…
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JetBlue Supersizes Itself With A220 Order, A321 Upgauge
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It wasn’t long ago that Airbus finalized its deal to take control of Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft program, so to celebrate, the aircraft has been renamed in the Airbus naming convention. Say hello to the A220.…
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Fun with Numbers: America’s Most Unreliable Airports
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It’s so common to come across an article trying to arbitrarily rank airlines or airports one way or another that I generally have little trouble ignoring them all. But when I saw Airways cite a…
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LEVEL Goes Short-Haul From Vienna, and I Struggle to Figure Out Why
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When IAG launched LEVEL last year as a long-haul, low-cost airline, I understood the niche. But now, LEVEL is growing and not in ways you’d expect. The airline will open its first short-haul base of…
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Cranky on the Web: LaGuardia’s Terminal, I Wish Airlines Would…
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LaGuardia Rebuilds to Go Beyond “Third World,” but is it Enough? – Icons of Infrastructure Here’s another Icons piece, but this one I didn’t write. I was just interviewed about my thoughts on LaGuardia’s rebuild.…
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3 Links I Love: More EAS Cuts, Boeing and Embraer Cuddle Up, Hope for Mexico City
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This week’s featured link: US DOT terminates EAS availability at 21 communities – ch-aviation It’s that time again when the Department of Transportation culls the list of essential air service markets. This year, 21 airports…
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As of Today, the Big Four US Airlines Have No Propellers Operating Under Their Brands
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Yesterday, American Eagle flight 4927 landed in Salisbury, Maryland right around dusk. That flight, operated by a Dash 8-300, marks the end of turboprop operations for its owner, Piedmont, and for American Eagle. But it…
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David Neeleman’s New Airline, Moxy, is Not Going to Make Southwest Happy
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By now you’ve likely heard about David Neeleman’s new airline, Moxy, which I hope is a temporary name. While full details are sparse, we can already see the outlines of how David would like this…
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Hawaiian’s A330 Flat Beds From Honolulu to Los Angeles (Trip Report)
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I’m back from vacation tomorrow, so here’s one last Hawaiian post for you. With only one night in Hawai’i, it was easy to stay on West Coast time. I went to bed before 9pm and…
