Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The Houston Chronicle offered up a bit of service journalism on Saturday in answering its readers questions about the United-Continental cooperation. As for my quip last week regarding the checked baggage issue, the Chronicle clues us in on how Alaska and American are dealing with it. Essentially, it all comes ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Chicago Sun-Times has a quick roundup on a luncheon with Southwest Gary Kelley in which he discussed Southwest's future. Unlike most of the other carriers, Southwest is actually moving forward with a strategy rather than simply reacting to the latest jump in fuel prices. Of course, the article notes ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
News broke late yesterday that United and Continental had formed a cooperation agreement that would involve a code share and also Continental leaving the SkyTeam for the Star Alliance. (United's link and Continental's link).Mark Ashley raises a few questions regarding the compatibility of the two mileage programs. Of course its ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
OpenSkies' debut is stealing the headlines today (read my take below), but the American child of the UK's other airline is also in the news. Unfortunately, it is not good. A couple days ago they announced a 10% reduction in services via the reduction of a midweek flying and ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
In less than 24 hours OpenSkies' inagural flight will be jetting across the Atlantic. When OpenSkies was announced Eos, Maxjet, Silverjet and L'Avion were all flying their own all-business class configurations. Now, Openskies' codeshare partner, L'Avion, is the only one still flying. Interestingly enough, OpenSkies is offering a product that ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
There's a new shuttle airline out in Seattle flying out of Boeing Field into Portland. The approxitamely 50 minute flight is will be flown on a 9-seater Pilatus PC-12. SeaPort will only offer flights during the business rush hour from 6:00 - 10:00 in the morning and then ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
United is auctioning a package to NYC to see the 2008 All-Star game in Yankee Stadium's final season. The package includes tickets to all the events, hotel accomodations, after party passes and First Class accomodations on United. The bidding is currently at an astronomical 701,000 miles. The ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Last week I discussed the impact of the new fees for legacy carriers Amerian and United. On Friday the Cranky Flier chimed in as well lambasting United for missing an opportunity to further differentiate itself from the competitors. With economy plus and PS, United has long catered to business travelers, ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Only days ago there were signs that Silverjet would survive with a new cash infusion. Those dreams are now over as funding has fallen through for the second time. This report notes that the downfall came when the CAA, the British aviation authority, required the new Silverjet to have a ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
It is probably safe to assume that at some point over the past few months an executive at all these legacy carriers raised his or her hand and said something along the lines of, “I understand we are hemorrhaging money. But, if we start charging for everything, then what does ...
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