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Touring United’s New, Ridiculously-Spacious CRJ-550 Aircraft
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I wrote about the commercial side of United’s new CRJ-550 regional jet last week, and now it’s time to talk product. While I was in Chicago last Thursday for United’s media day, the airline invited…
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Settling the Debate: Does American or United Have More First Class Seats in Chicago?
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United had its first global media day (at least, first that I can remember) on Friday, and it was an event well done. That being said, I didn’t expect there would be homework…. Chief Commercial…
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3 Links I Love: Long Haul PR Stunt, Tiny Plane Across the Ocean, Brewing Chicago Fight
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This week’s featured link: I Just Took the World’s First 20-Hour Flight. Here’s What It Did to Me – BloombergThis is quite the PR stunt Qantas has put on. How much do you really learn…
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Air NZ, Cathay Pacific Cuts Highlight the Death of the True Fifth Freedom Flight
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The 1944 Chicago Convention was a landmark agreement that, among other things, pushed the global air travel industry to create a defined set of “freedoms” of the air which would guide what routes airlines from…
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A Deeper Look at United’s CRJ-550 Rollout
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United has been talking about this for some time, but last week the airline finally loaded flights operated by the CRJ-550. Initial markets will focus on Chicago with Newark to follow. From what I can…
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The Case for Copa Defecting to American
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As LATAM prepares to consciously uncouple from American, the discussion has centered around what American can do to shore up its already-solid Latin American network. In the vision I laid out recently, the least controversial…
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Cranky on the Web: Putting My Adventure to Shame, Saving Connections, MAX Return Worries
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Around Hawai‘i and Back: A Pass Traveler’s Journey to Fly Our Entire Neighbor Island Network in One Day – Hawaiian Airlines Mana’oRemember my day flying to all the Hawaiian 717 stations? Well, one Hawaiian employee…
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3 Links I Love: Reading Azul Tea Leaves, Etihad Light, Small Virgins
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This week’s featured link: Azul could join giant Latin America alliance sought by United, Avianca, Copa – TPGIt’s interesting that United would want to bring Azul into its joint venture, because Azul does very little…
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San Francisco Shuffles Its Gate Numbers
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If you flew through San Francisco (SFO) yesterday, you may have noticed things looked a bit different. No, no. It’s not that the planes can actually run on time when there’s a cloud in the…
