Archive for October, 2008
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
...it is later October and airlines are offering sales for peak Thanksgiving travel. I played around a bit looking for some deals and I only found a few. Most of the major markets (CHI-NYC, BOS-DC, etc) seemed where you would expect them ($400+) for peak days. But, I did find a ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
The US Justice department announced today that it would approve Delta's purchase of Northwest paving way for the merger to go forward. Now, we just need to sit back and wait to see the new Delta realize those $2 billion in synergies.
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
The OTR has an update via Airliners on the status of Openskies. In sum, they are slowing growth and centralizing business operations in France. As stated before on this blog, I think Openskies has the right product and product mix. However, the state of the economy is devastating and things must ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
No pun intended. I'm not an expert on plane crashes (although I'm working in on it), but this seems bad.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Took AA a little while but they're finally ditching 500-mile accrual minimums for short flights for non-elite members. Sorry to all those frequent ORD-MKE flyers, you'll only be earning 67 miles from now on.
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Not everyone out there is a preferred member of Star Alliance and thus when you are flying with United you are stuck in the regular economy product. Luckily, United's decision to charge for Economy Plus and strictly enforce no complimentary upgrades translates to greater availability in Economy Plus.
In other ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
I feel a small obligation to bid farewell to the Old JetBlue Terminal 4. It was a cramped, dismal place that was, by most definitions, unpleasant. The free wi-fi helped and the addition of the auxiliary terminal alleviated a bit of the cramping. Aside from that, there were hardly enough ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
"Southwest just makes sense. The service is fine and there is nothing hidden. You know what you are getting and the fares make sense."
"I heard they (US Airways) charge for pillows now, but that's ok, the people I know fly American."
Can you really blame people? It is a mish mosh ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
I try to keep the anecdotal/personal stories off the blog as much as possible but here's a comment worth sharing. I flew Republic yesterday from PIT-BOS and it highlights how lucky US Airways is to have signed up with such a great regional carrier. As PIT has been downgraded to ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
A gmail ad led me to a United Airlines microsite that lets you check on United's progress in upgrading the business class fleet to the new flat bed product. As of now, 42% of the 767 fleet and 29% of the 747 fleet has been upgraded with work set to ...
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