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3 Links I Love: Explaining the Lufthansa Livery, Flight 1, California Pacific Tries Again
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This week’s featured link: Exclusive Interview: Lufthansa Explains Its New Livery, Why Yellow Was Dropped (+Photos) – Airways Though the commenters on this article trashed the piece for not really getting answers, I found it…
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United Rushes Out a Semi-Basic Economy Transatlantic Offering
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When I first saw the announcement that United and its joint venture partners Lufthansa Group and Air Canada were rolling out Transatlantic fares without the first bag free, I glossed over the communication thinking it…
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Delta to India: Anatomy of a Masterful Press Release
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I generally expect airline press releases to bend the truth. I know that releases will gloss over the negatives and focus on the positives; that’s what companies do. I also know that they will find…
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3 Links I Love: White House and State Dept Spar Over Open Skies, Allegiant Loses, Alitalia May Go It Alone
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This week’s featured link: Navarro clashes with State Department over UAE airline deal – Associated Press Remember how I said there were differing views on the impact of the US agreement with the UAE? Well,…
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United’s Clever Pricing Strategy for Access to the Fancy Private Suite
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If you’re super rich and famous, you may have heard of the Private Suite at LAX. If you haven’t, well, then you clearly aren’t rich and/or famous enough. United has just entered into a partnership…
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A Video Walkthrough of Delta’s New A350
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Last week, Delta brought its fancy new A350 to Los Angeles to show it off. The airline parked the airplane at the Flight Path Museum on the south side of LAX and invited media, travel…
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United Shuffles Newark and Washington Flying Because of Capacity Constraints
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When United first announced that it would shift flying in Newark to focus more on local traffic while Washington/Dulles would be bulked up to handle connections, you may have flashed back to the American-TWA merger.…
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3 Links I Love: The Dutch Fight Back, WOW India, Lowering Airport Costs
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This week’s featured link: Air France Turmoil Is Said to Spur KLM to Seek Change at Top – Bloomberg Finally, the Dutch are revolting! Or at least, they’re starting to show their frustration with the…
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If You Say You Don’t Like to Fly Spirit, You’re Running Out of Excuses
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A couple of years ago, it was easy to come up with a laundry list of reasons why you would never want to fly Spirit Airlines. No frills, a poorly-run operation, you name it. Slowly,…
