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Piedmont Escapes Death Once Again as American Doles Out Embraer 175s
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Piedmont has long seemed like an airline living on borrowed time. For years it was the airline flying the smallest and least desirable fleets. On more than one occasion, it seemed like its time was…
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Avelo Gets Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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When Avelo decided to relocate airplanes to Phoenix/Mesa and operate deportation flights for the federal government, you probably saw the headlines raking the airline over the coals. There were protests, though none got as much…
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With JetBlue’s Partnership with United, JFK’s Terminal Fiefdoms Become More Clear
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I am always fascinated by New York’s JFK International Airport. It’s one of the rare examples in the US — the only example? — that has multiple private operators running different terminals. And in the…
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Cranky on the Web: American’s Fancy New 787
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American’s inaugural flight on its new 787-9, internally called the 787-9P, was from Chicago to Los Angeles this week. While the airplane was on the ground at LAX on its turn, I was invited to…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Indigo Reaches for the Sky, Alaska’s European Vacation
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IndiGo Goes Towards SkyTeam IndiGo — India’s largest airline — isn’t quite yet joining SkyTeam, but it might as well at this point. The carrier announced plans to build a partnership connecting India with both…
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Visual Aids for The Air Show’s JetZero Z4 Discussion
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This week on The Air Show, we are talking about JetZero and its proposed aircraft. With the episode just going live — if you don’t see it, keep refreshing — I’m putting up a bonus…
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More Than Just the CEO’s Mom: Why Rome Isn’t Crazy for Alaska’s First European Flight
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When Alaska announced that its first European route would be from Seattle to Rome/FCO next summer, there was some head-scratching all around. This is an airline that’s a member of oneworld. Wouldn’t it have chosen…
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You Can Now Edit Comments, But Also… Other Changes
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If you’ve left a comment in the last couple of days, you may have noticed some, uh, turbulence. See, the company that has powered my comment emails for years, Postmatic, seems to have just disappeared.…
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United Officially Gets Its Gates at O’Hare, But The Fight Isn’t Over
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June 1 was the day that Chicago/O’Hare was required by the terms of its lease to officially publish its new gate map. Even though the gates won’t change hands until October, the deed is done……
