Recent Articles
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My Life on a 747
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As anyone who happens to be flying to or through Atlanta this week knows, it has not been a good week for Delta. The Sunday…
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Wondering How Sun Country is Going to Make Its New Owners A Lot of Money
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Last week Sun Country was sold by the Davis brothers to funds managed by private-equity-giant Apollo. Apollo isn’t in this just to be nice. It…
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Cranky on the Web: What’s Behind The Higher Bag Fee Revenue?
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Fliers paid a record $1.2 billion in baggage fees last quarter – CNN Money When CNN asked me why airline bag fees were up 10…
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3 Links I Love: Horizon Stabilizes, Delta Flight Attendant Reality Show, Canada Retaliates
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This week’s featured link: Horizon Air operations stabilize as crisis abates – The Seattle Times It’s good to see a little bit of light at…
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Trump Gets Tough on the Middle East Airlines… Or Possibly Not
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If you saw the news earlier this week that President Trump had addressed the gulf carrier subsidy issue, you could be forgiven for being extremely…
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easyJet Makes Its Move on Berlin
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When airberlin finally went under, there was a great deal of concern that Lufthansa would pick up all the pieces and leave Germany without any…
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Delta’s Empire-Building Continues With a WestJet Joint Venture
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Delta continued its efforts to take over the world last week with the announcement of its anticipated joint venture with Canada’s WestJet. For Delta, this…
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3 Links I Love: Berlin’s Terrible Airport Problem, Alitalia Fiddles While Rome Burns, Skytrax Shenanigans
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This week’s featured link: The ongoing saga of Berlin’s unfinished airport – CNN Travel I’ve been watching with disbelief as the normally-efficient Germans find themselves…
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The Best Part About the New Emirates First Class Is Its Virtual Windows
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I don’t know about you, but when I saw the new Emirates First Class product, I gasped. No, no. I’m not talking about the fully-enclosed…
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American’s Rationale For Expanding Basic Economy to Mexico and the Caribbean Sounds Like Garbage, But It’s Probably Not
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Though American and United both began rolling out Basic Economy fares around the same time, United rushed it and made mistakes. American, however, has been…
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LEVEL Goes Up, OpenSkies Goes Down
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I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something poignant about IAG’s decision to shut down its OpenSkies subsidiary and expand LEVEL to…
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Cranky on the Web: American’s Overblown Pilot Problem, Holiday Travel Deals
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American Airlines updates worried travelers after glitch left thousands of holiday flights without pilots – Dallas Morning News (Paywall) When there’s a hard paywall like…
