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Delta’s Terminal Consolidation Plans Begin to Take Shape
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Details of Delta’s plans to combine facilities with Northwest are starting to leak out, and I’m very happy to see that the most difficult terminal situations are being addressed early. First up, the LA Times…
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US Airways Pilots End ASAP Participation
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I wrote about American’s inability to come to agreement with its pilots on continuing participation on the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) in October, and now we’ve seen this very sad problem spread to other…
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Pan Am 103 Crashed Twenty Years Ago Today
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I know I usually don’t post on Sundays, but this is no usual Sunday. It’s December 21, and that means it has now been 20 years since Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in flight and…
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This Week on BNET (Dec 15-19)
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Forrester Says Leisure Travel Brand Loyalty Disappearing Rapidly Forrester says brand loyalty is disappearing. That hardly means that travel companies should just give up. There’s opportunity to be had. Building a Green Hangar How about…
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Trip Report: A Mess of a Trip
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I’ve had several people ask me if I had given up on writing trip reports, and the answer is no. I just haven’t been on an airplane for awhile, so I had nothing to write.…
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A Pilot’s View on the Brazilian Gol/ExcelAire Accident (Guest Post)
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We got into an off-topic discussion in the comments section of a previous post recently about the latest in the Gol/ExcelAire midair collision in Brazil, and I thought it was worth a closer look. Fortunately,…
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Southwest Links to WestJet, Does Anyone Care?
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I know that many of you have been anxiously awaiting the Southwest-WestJet codeshare to get going, and yesterday the airlines took their first steps. Southwest put up a link to WestJet, and I have to…
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cFares Might be Worth Checking on Your Next Trip
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I’m sure you’re familiar with Kayak, Sidestep, Farecast, etc in addition to the Expedias, Orbitzes, and Travelocitys of the world. There are obviously plenty of places to book tickets, but there’s another one you probably…
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DOT Now Releasing Tarmac Delay Information
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Sorry I’m a little late this morning, but we’re (finally) getting some serious rain here in Southern California and that knocked out our power for awhile. We’re back up and running now, so let’s get…
