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This morning, Breeze announced it will go into Burbank with flights to all but Medford. It’ll also add Provo which is its preferred outpost close to home and where the aircraft will be based that fly ...
But nothing is quite as terrible as Avelo which after having an 18.4 percent increase in capacity saw fare revenue just disappear, down nearly 28 percent. In returning markets, Avelo’s average fare ...
When Delta and Northwest merged, Northwest had no presence in transcon, but it did spur Delta to build its own presence. The mergers of United and Continental plus Alaska and Virgin America were the ...
The day I was flying up to San Francisco, Alaska had a total of 108 flights solely-within California on 15 distinct routes. Only four of those flights were operated by mainline aircraft. There’s one ...
When Avelo decided to relocate airplanes to Phoenix/Mesa and operate deportation flights for the federal government, you probably saw the headlines raking the airline over the coals. There were ...
I am always fascinated by New York’s JFK International Airport. It’s one of the rare examples in the US — the only example? — that has multiple private operators running different terminals. And in ...
We’re going to go old-school today with an Across the Aisle transcript of an interview I did with TAP Air Portugal’s CEO Luís Rodrigues. I was supposed to do this in person on the day of TAP’s ...
Every year, I try to gather with a group of friends from grad school. We usually do it in Vegas, but I drive so you wouldn’t read about it here. But this time we opted for something quieter, a trip up ...
Delta has been teasing that it would have some sort of “Basic Business” unbundled offering for a long time. We expected to see it at the airline’s last investor day, but that didn’t happen. Apparently ...
The way that airline cabins are named all seems rather silly to me. After all, what years ago was First, Business, and Economy has now become Business, Premium Economy, and Economy. It’s not all that ...
We’ve been talking about American’s strategy in New York for a very, very long time. The airline is undersized, and there is no clear solution. It briefly hoped it solved its problem in New York with ...
More Reading on This Topic: Air Traffic Control, Government Regulation I stopped counting long ago, but there have been many, many attempts to try to modernize the US’s air traffic control (ATC) ...