Recent Articles
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3 Links I Love: American Adds Profit Sharing, Baltia’s Domestic Plans, Alaska’s Electronic Bag Tag
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This week’s featured link: AA Announces New Profit Sharing Plan – American Airlines American announced this week that it was finally giving in and starting…
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Should Airports Extend Their Security Perimeters? No.
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Any time there’s a bombing like the one in Brussels earlier this week, the chorus of people suggesting knee-jerk reactions gets much louder. The explosions…
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The Good and the Bad of Etihad’s A380 First Class Apartments (Guest Post)
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It’s been a few years since you last heard from Geoff Fischer on the blog. But after tackling some seriously difficult challenges, including flying First…
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Why the TSA, Congress, and Even the White House are Making Airport Security Lines Worse
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After years of increasingly frustrating airport security experiences, the introduction of Pre Check seemed like the first step in reversing the trend. For those who…
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3 Links I Love: Other Industries Like Airline Pricing, United Flight Attendant Optimism, Norwegian’s Huge London Plans
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This week’s featured link: Why ‘dynamic’ pricing based on real-time supply and demand is rapidly spreading – Los Angeles Times It has taken a long…
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Some Have a Real Impact While Others Don’t, But Aviation Emission Reduction Efforts are Picking Up Steam
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It’s been far too long since I’ve written about aviation and the environment, so today seemed like a good day to catch up. There are…
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Flying Main Cabin Extra One Way and First Class the Other on an American A321 (Trip Report)
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About a month ago, Salesforce.com asked if I’d be willing to come speak at an event they were holding for a small group of folks…
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Why Does Congress Keep Trying to Over-Regulate Airlines?
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It seems like every week, as of late, there’s a new proposed bill coming out of Congress that tries to slap over-reaching regulations on the…
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3 Links I Love: United’s Board Room Brawl, Amazon Airlines, Alaska’s Eclipse Flight
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This week’s featured link: And it Turned in to a Boardroom Blitz – Wandering Aramean I was debating writing a full post about United’s board…
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Self-Cleaning Toilets Sound Great, But Why Not the Entire Airplane?
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Has everyone heard about Boeing’s so-called self-cleaning lavatory prototype? Sounds great, but there’s some false advertising here. (It doesn’t actually clean itself. It sanitizes, which…
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Walking the New Connector Between Terminal 4 and the Bradley Terminal at LAX
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One of the big issues at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the inability to make connections between terminals without having to leave security. This…
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Airlines Fight to Be Able to Lose Money in Cuba
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It’s been a long time coming, but the thawing relations between the US and Cuba have finally borne fruit for the airline industry. Every US…
