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3 Links I Love: WestJet Gets Bought, The Great Airline War, The Long Way Home
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This week’s featured link: Onex shakes up Canada’s airline industry with all-cash deal to buy WestJet – The Globe and MailWestJet is going private again, and this time it’s by a company that has tried…
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Don’t Waste the Effort, Let Air Italy Fail On Its Own
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The big three US airlines (American, Delta, and United) have been hammering on the big three Middle East carriers (Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar) for illegal subsidies for many years now. I’ve written about this several…
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An Evening in Edinburgh (A Cranky Travelogue)
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Since this one isn’t about airlines at all, I’m publishing it as a bonus Wednesday post. I had been to Edinburgh exactly once before, and it was as a senior in college, twenty years earlier…
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Can Thomas Cook’s Airlines Help Lufthansa Group’s Eurowings?
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Thomas Cook is one of the most storied names in European travel, but it has not been doing well financially. Now the company is looking to sell off its airlines to prop up the rest…
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Heathrow’s Terminal 2 and Flybe to Edinburgh (A Cranky Travelogue)
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I had made it to London, and that meant I had only one flight left that day, my first on the recently re-capitalized Flybe. But first, I had to make it through the gauntlet that…
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3 Links I Love: Branson in the Caribbean, Long Beach Slots, The Return of Peotone
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This week’s featured link: Virgin Atlantic boss expresses interest in investing in LIAT – The Daily HeraldRichard Branson has a track record of mediocre performance at best with his airlines, but investing in LIAT would…
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Asiana Tries to Shrink Its Way Out of Trouble
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It has been — to be understated — a very bad year for Asiana, the second largest airline in South Korea. Years of increasing debt loads have finally caught up with the airline, and it…
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The Cranky Flier Interview: Capt Korry Franke on Flying the 737
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You might recognize the name Korry Franke from this blog. He’s the Captain for United who wrote the book 3 Feet to the Left. He asked me to write the foreword for it last year.…
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Air Canada Business Class Via Vancouver to London (A Cranky Travelogue)
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Once I had finished with planning my Islay pilgrimage, I barely had enough time to get excited for the trip before it began. Air Canada would kick this trip off in style. It had been…
