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This week’s episode of Airplane Geeks appears to have an appropriate title, as I was the guest on the popular aviation podcast for the third time and my four appearances on the show. Episode 117 has been titled “Something Fishy Here.” If you have some time download Airplane Geeks from the site or on iTunes.  [...]

This morning as I rolled over and read an incoming e-mail from Southwest Airlines, at 7:12am EST, I was pretty sure what I was reading was practical joke.  Southwest Airlines is known for its sense of humor … but this e-mail was one I really needed to read after consuming vast quantities of caffeine found [...]

This past Monday the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics released the 2010 2nd Quarter financial data for U.S. airlines and the news was not surprising … ancillary revenue profits are continuing to increase. I have been writing about the Bureau of Transportation Statistics findings for the past two years or so because I find this shift [...]

For many aviation enthusiasts airplanes are like fine art. We all have our favorites airplanes and airplanes we find aesthetically pleasing … for me its the Lockheed L-1011. For one aviation enthusiast … OK … let me try that again … for one significant aviation geek extraordinaire, the melding of airplanes and art has spawned [...]

Back in August of last year my son Max was about to enter Kindergarten, all excited to enter Kindergarten Max really wanted to use my old and tattered Southwest Airlines…which was in no shape to be a kindergarteners lunch box. How was this resolved? Well an off handed commented to some folks at Southwest Airlines [...]

Statistics, no one really likes reading them … well no, that’s not true, I am sure some people like reading statistics … OK, when it comes to airline information I like reading statistics (just don’t tell any of the teachers who taught my high school math classes, they’d never believe you).  Yesterday, the U.S. Bureau [...]

Most posts on Flying With Fish require a lot of words … this one really doesn’t. In short Southwest Airlines released its “Battle Cry” television commercial that features a plane with its livery blurred out … it happened to be an AirTran Boeing 717. Today AirTran released an “Udderly Hysterical Video,” stating that they were [...]

4/2/2010 – iPhone App of the Week : Southwest Airlines Airline created iPhone Apps are often run-of-the-mill. A few stand out among the Apps I have written about on Flying With Fish and I have skipped over countless Apps that I have felt offered virtually no benefit to users. This week’s iPhone App of the [...]

14/12/2009 –  Southwest Airlines Responds To Air New Zealand’s Challenge … prepare to laugh Lets rewind three months to an unusual moment in airline marketing history when Air New Zealand challenged Southwest Airlines to ‘take it off’ in a public video, which I wrote about here – 15/09/2009 – Air New Zealand Calls Out Southwest [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 3/12/2009 – iPhone App Of The Week : iPhone Optimized Sites (OK, they are not really Apps) When most folks think of iPhone Apps they tend to strictly think of applications developed for the iPhone. The upside to many Apps is that they can operate without being connected to the [...]