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United Improves While JetBlue, Alaska, and Southwest Don’t in 2017 On-Time Derby
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It’s time for some fun with numbers. The year is over, and my technical issue with masFlight was fixed. That means I was able to cuddle up with my computer over the weekend and start…
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Icelandair Tries New Market Types to Protect Its Model in a MAX/neo World
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On a cold winter back in 1999, my college friends and I decided to spend our last spring break in the exact opposite way of pretty much everyone else. I had received an email from…
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3 Links I Love: Why JFK is Terrible (Reason #3,194), Alaska’s Winter of Discontent, Americans Flee to Tijuana
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This week’s featured link: Why Did New York’s JFK Airport Struggle to Cope With Its Flight Backlog After the Bomb Cyclone? – The Points Guy Were you stuck in New York during that nasty bomb…
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The Trend Toward Pre-Reclining Seats in Coach is a Good Thing
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This week it came out that British Airways was doing away with seats that recline on new short-haul aircraft and will instead use a “pre-reclining” seat. The knee-jerk reaction is, of course, to curse BA…
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With an Assist From JetBlue, Hawaiian Chooses Long Beach As Its First New Airport to Serve with the A321neo
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Hawaiian Airlines has long had a size issue. Ever since the DC-8s were retired back in the 1990s, the airline has only had large widebody aircraft to fly to the mainland. This wasn’t necessarily a…
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Just How Did American Perform After Its Pilot Schedule Problem?
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Remember way back in early December? There were no absurdly-named bomb cyclones to speak of (if you have had to touch that mess of an airport that is JFK in the past week, my condolences),…
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3 Links I Love: A Political Bonus Thanks to Tax Reform, A 747 Wedding
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This week’s TWO featured links: Southwest Airlines Rings In The New Year Under Tax Reform With Employee Bonus, Charitable Contribution, And Further Investment In Its Boeing Fleet – Southwest Newsroom American Airlines to Distribute $1,000…
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Qatar Copies Etihad, Not Emirates In Its Quest to Fly Between Europe and the US
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Just recently I wrote about how the real threat posed by the Middle East airlines to those in the US was fifth-freedom flying — flights that operate from an airline’s home country to a second…
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Reviewing Your 2017 Predictions and Making Your 2018 Picks
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It’s official, 2017 is over so it’s time to look back and see how you all did with your predictions. A year ago, I reviewed 2016 predictions and asked for your thoughts on 2017. There…
