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Virgin Makes Us Wait for Six More Days
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Virgin America has requested that the DOT give them an extension of six days until January 16 to file a response to the show cause order denying their right to fly. Bummer, that means we’ll…
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Why United Won the Right for More China Flights
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The long awaited decision about who would win this year’s rights to fly to China came down today. United was awarded the rights to fly daily between Washington/Dulles and Beijing beginning March 25. This is…
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Northwest Says Aloha to the DC-10
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DC-10 Retirement – 01-07-07 – 01 – 017 Originally uploaded by NWA Moments. Yesterday morning, Northwest flight 98 arrived in Minneapolis/St Paul from Honolulu. That flight marks the last scheduled DC-10 flight in the United…
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JetBlue Heads for San Francisco
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San Francisco Airport (SFO) leaked (pdf) the news yesterday that a “major U.S. air carrier” would announce service to the airport today, January 9. Of all the major US airlines, only two don’t fly there…
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How Important is Inflight Entertainment?
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Remember when inflight entertainment was just a projector showing movies at the front of the cabin? (If you’re on a United 747, that’s still the case, but I digress.) These days, inflight entertainment is much…
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Adam Air – Still Looking
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Remember that Adam Air plane crash in Indonesia last week? Well despite one false report, they unbelievably still haven’t found the plane’s remains yet. I can’t imagine that happening in the US or Europe today,…
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The LCC Round the World Challenge
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All this talk about the launch of Air Asia X, the new long haul low cost carrier got me thinking. With the proliferation of low cost carriers (LCCs) in the last few years, you probably…
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Bye Bye Blogspot
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I use Blogger to publish and host my blog, so that’s why the URL has been http://crankyflier.blogspot.com until now. Fortunately, Blogger has just introduced a change which means I can use my own URL instead.…
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Who the F*** is SkyValue?
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In the second installment of my “Who the F*** is . . .” series, we look at SkyValue (Allegiant was the first). These guys are certainly less well known than Allegiant, and they are much…
