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Spirit Teases But Doesn’t Reveal Its Plan to Fix the Airline
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In the airline industry, cash is king. It’s expensive to operate an airline but as long as you have cash, you can lose money and survive. Spirit is up against some monster debt coming due…
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Frontier’s Evolving Network in Maps
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Frontier has been telling us that it needed to remake its operation, delving even further into the out-and-back model of basing crews and airplanes in one city and having them back home that night. This…
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Podcasts a Plenty: New DOT Rules and A Broad Look at American’s Sales and Distribution Plans
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It’s time for a two-fer! First up, we have a new Cranky Talk episode for the first time in awhile. Dave was so excited to talk about government regulation, that I just couldn’t tell him…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Bye-Bye Bonza, SAS Reaches for the SkyTeam
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Bonza Goes Belly Up Bonza, an LCC in Australia that began flying last January, died a quiet death earlier this week. The airline is survived by the eight aircraft in its fleet which were repossessed,…
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Dubai’s Al Maktoum Set to Become the Mega Hub to Top All Mega Hubs
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You may have seen the pretty pictures. The man whose title is so long that you know he’s important — His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the…
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Southwest is in a Funk, But It Has a Plan
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Southwest did not have a good first quarter, and that’s putting it mildly. The airline that used to crow like clockwork every three months about how many consecutive profitable quarters it posted… posted another loss.…
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American Flinches as Its Sales and Distribution Strategy Runs Into Trouble
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Just over a week ago, American Airlines was on the cusp of rolling out its new “preferred agency” program that would yank mileage-earning capability away from all bookings at travel agencies that hadn’t adopted American’s…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: AA, Southwest Lose Money, Southwest FAs Make Money
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American’s Q1: Labor Costs Up, Profit Down American Airlines lost $312 million in the first three months of the year as it saw labor costs rise 18%, or nearly $600 million from a year ago.…
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JetBlue Runs Into Latin America Troubles
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The first quarter was a terrible one for JetBlue. On the one hand, it looks like the airline was using this as a “kitchen sink” kind of quarter where it just threw all kinds of…
