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Spirit’s Current and Future CEOs On the Airline’s Continued Operational Improvement (Across the Aisle)
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Now I’m back with the second part of my discussion with current Spirit CEO Bob Fornaro and his successor Ted Christie. In the first part, we focused on the network, but here we spoke about…
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Spirit’s Current and Future CEOs on Growing the Three Pieces of the Network (Across the Aisle)
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At this year’s International Aviation Forecast Summit, I was particularly excited to have a chance to sit down with Spirit. Last year when I spoke to CEO Bob Fornaro, we talked about a variety of…
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3 Links I Love: Interviewing Scott Kirby, The First Airport Hotel, Wake Up Airplane
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This week’s featured link: United Airlines President on Turning Skeptics Into Believers – Skift As you know, I love interviews. Here’s one with Scott Kirby, United’s President. Two for the road: Fresh News About Old…
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OneJet “Temporarily” Suspends Its Flights, But a Return to the Skies Would Be Surprising
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It was just two weeks ago that I wrote about ominous clouds hovering over OneJet. Now there’s been another blow: flights and bookings have been suspended. The company says it will resume selling tickets in…
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It May Be a Mistake For United to Grow Dulles
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I’m not done with Scott Kirby just yet. In the same media gathering where I asked about yesterday’s topic, scope relief, someone else asked about the future of the Washington/Dulles hub. I’ll just paste Scott’s…
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United Has a Shot at The Regional Flexibility It Craves
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At the International Aviation Forecast Summit last week, United President Scott Kirby was unsurprisingly in high demand. After his presentation, he took a few minutes to sit with a handful of media so we could…
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3 Links I Love: Voting on the Future of MEX, Essential Air Service Saved, Killing the Train
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This week’s featured link: Lopez Obrador Commits to Unorthodox Vote on $13 Billion Airport – Bloomberg The Mexico City airport saga continues. The incoming president promised he’d stop constructing the new airport (which is already…
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Chicago Loses Asia, New York Loses Europe, and Philly Goes Boutique in American Network Changes
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I spent most of this week at the Boyd Conference (properly known as the International Aviation Forecast Summit). While I have plenty of posts to compile from that, it’s something that wasn’t announced at the…
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A Delta 737-800 Brings Me Home From the Carolinas (Trip Report)
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After a week bouncing around the Carolinas, it was time to come home. As is always the case when we return from visiting the in-laws in North Carolina, we had the choice of a connection…
