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United Shuffles Newark and Washington Flying Because of Capacity Constraints
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When United first announced that it would shift flying in Newark to focus more on local traffic while Washington/Dulles would be bulked up to handle connections, you may have flashed back to the American-TWA merger.…
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3 Links I Love: The Dutch Fight Back, WOW India, Lowering Airport Costs
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This week’s featured link: Air France Turmoil Is Said to Spur KLM to Seek Change at Top – Bloomberg Finally, the Dutch are revolting! Or at least, they’re starting to show their frustration with the…
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If You Say You Don’t Like to Fly Spirit, You’re Running Out of Excuses
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A couple of years ago, it was easy to come up with a laundry list of reasons why you would never want to fly Spirit Airlines. No frills, a poorly-run operation, you name it. Slowly,…
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Differing Views on Whether the Agreement Between the US and UAE Is Worth Anything
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After years of fighting, it looked like we had an official end to the dispute between the three biggest US airlines and the three big Middle Eastern ones. Now, however, there seems to be a…
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WestJet Goes Full Service, Releases Its 787 Interiors Along With a New Livery
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Let’s pretend you didn’t read the title of this post, and you just randomly happened to see this photo: If you were told to guess the airline that operated this airplane, what would you pick?…
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3 Links I Love: The Mexico City Airport Problem, Air France in Jeopardy, KLM and Mauritius
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This week’s featured link: Critics Take Aim at Mexico City’s Wild New Airport – CityLab If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s that Mexico City needs more room at its airport. The place…
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Thinking Through DOT’s Surprising FAA Oversight Memo
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You may have heard yesterday something about how the Department of Transportation (DOT) was investigating maintenance practices at Allegiant and American. That’s not exactly right, there’s another layer involving the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) here,…
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Alaska Prepares to Shuffle Airbus and Boeing Fleets
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The “proudly all-Boeing” Alaska Airlines is no more. With the Virgin America merger done from a customer perspective, there are both Airbus and Boeing fleets flying under the Alaska brand. For the most part, the…
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Southwest Continues to Slowly Trickle Out Details of Hawai’i Flying
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I can’t decide whether to be annoyed or just plain impressed at how much Southwest has drawn out the announcement of its coming service to Hawai’i. There has been a faint trickle of information that…
