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Republic Goes Bankrupt And I Wonder If It’ll Survive the Process
The long, drawn out descent of Republic Airways continues. The company, which flies as a regional feeder for American, Delta, and United, filed for bankruptcy last week after a rocky few years. This will be an odd bankruptcy, though not…
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3 Links I Love: More Love for Bag Fees, No Love for Branson, And a Little Guy Goes Bankrupt
This Week’s Featured Link: JetBlue Airways (JBLU) Robin Hayes on Q4 2015 Results – Earnings Call Transcript – Seeking Alpha JetBlue had been lagging the industry from a profit perspective, but things are changing. Last quarter was a great one…
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Reviewing Your 2015 Predictions
It’s a relatively new tradition here on the blog, but I like it. At the end of each year, I ask for your thoughts on the year ahead. Now, it’s time to review how you said for your 2015 predictions…
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Here Delta Goes Again On Its Own, Goin’ Down the Only Road Its Ever Known
Delta has repeatedly made the decision over the last few years to take the path less traveled. In its latest move, Delta has decided to pull out of the US airline industry’s lobbying group, Airlines For America (A4A), because it…
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Avatar Airlines is Back and It Wants Your Money
Of all the posts I’ve written on this site, none has quite caught your attention like the 2009 post on Family Airlines. With more than 300 comments, we just couldn’t stop talking about it. Family changed its name to Avatar…
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United Makes Some Big Fleet Changes, More Widebodies Coming to Domestic Flights
Over the last few years, we’ve seen most US airlines get really excited about using smaller mainline aircraft in favor of having more flight frequencies. This began to change a couple years ago at the smaller end of the aircraft…
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Reviewing Your 2014 Predictions
At the end of last year, I put a topic up for you all to make your predictions for the airline industry in 2014. Let’s take a look and see how many of them panned out. The Battle for Seattle…
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United Cuts Its Cleveland Hub, Blames Connecting Passengers and the FAA
Less than two months ago, I asked Brian Znotins, VP of Network for United, what the future of Cleveland looked like. He said it had “long been challenged to turn a profit,” but I wasn’t able to get a read…
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New FAA Rule Will Hurt Small City Air Service
Small airports have lost a lot of service over the last several years, and a new rule by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is now very likely going to make things even worse. The new rule will dramatically increase the…
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New and Proposed Regulations Will Hurt Small Communities (Guest Post)
I’m still out on leave, but I’ll be back soon. Enjoy this post about small communities . . . — Over 70% of US airports with commercial air service are served exclusively by regional airlines. And almost all of those…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Delta Leads Earnings, Shoes Stay On Now
And we’re back! Hope you didn’t miss us too much while we were on vacation this week. We’re now back to the regular posting schedule. Delta Posts Strong Q2 Earnings Delta Air Lines posted a robust $2.1 billion profit in…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Heathrow Closes Due to Fire, FAA Has Its Nominee
We’re a day later than usual this week, but at some point today, the latest Air Show will be live with two, two, TWO topics instead of one. First, Brian and Jon talk through what Bryan Bedford being nominated to…