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The US Airways $5 Booking Fee is “Relaxed”
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I know, I know. I’ve been writing about US Airways way too much lately. I can’t help it if there’s a lot to talk about. I’ve seen a flurry of discussion in the last couple…
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The Incredible Shrinking ATA
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Remember when ATA was considered a “major” carrier with over $1b in annual revenue? It seems like so long ago now. They had a nice operation at Chicago/Midway and they had Indianapolis, Hawai’i, etc. Now,…
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Southwest Checks for Cracks
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I’m not going to spend too much time talking about what happened today, because it’s been covered by just about everyone. (I should say overdramatized by just about everyone.) In short, Southwest had to take…
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SAS and Bombardier Settle Over the Q400
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At the end of October, I asked whether Bombardier and SAS should kiss and make up over their differences. Yeah, sure there were three Q400 landing gear issues in two months, but what’s a little…
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Virgin America Buy 2 Get 1 Free?!
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It appears that Virgin America is getting desperate. Repeat after me . . . MUST-RAISE-CASH. A friend forwarded me an email that was apparently sent to at least some of Virgin America’s eleVAte frequent flier…
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London/Heathrow Gets Ready to Play Musical Airlines
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There has been a ton of interesting news to write about in the last few days, and I’d been having trouble figuring out with what to lead . . . until yesterday. Turns out that…
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Be Careful Before Deciding Southwest Was Unsafe
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This is definitely the hot topic of the last couple days, and I must admit I’m still trying to sort it all out. This is what I’ve put together so far (with the help of…
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Airport Experience, Baggage, Government Regulation, Inflight Entertainment, Mergers/Finance, Schedule Changes, US Airways
A Little More From US Airways
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Ok, as requested (by at least one person), here are the rest of my notes from US Airways Media Day. I could try to make it all nice and pretty, but nah I’ll just try…
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Amazingly Low Gas Prices
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I saw this on reddit this morning just had to laugh. You might remember when this accident happened: 8 years ago today. The Southwest flight from Vegas overran the runway at Burbank and ended up…
