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Delta Earns a Cranky Jackass Award for Requiring Several Week Advance Purchase to Book Low Level Domestic Awards and Not Telling Anyone
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You may have seen elsewhere that Delta has decided to stop publishing all award charts. That’s bad, because it makes it easier for Delta to change mileage redemption levels without telling anyone. But there are…
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Cranky on the Web – Debating Frequent Flier Programs,
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Do airline loyalty programs have a future? – Bullingdon Post This is a new site, and I was asked to participate in a panel with Gary from View from the Wing and Ben from One…
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Topic of the Week: Do Bigger Airplanes Matter?
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Delta announced it’s bringing its 717s back to the west coast. The LA – San Francisco shuttle will see half the flights upgauged from an Embraer 175 to a Boeing 717. Do you care? Will…
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Strange Bedfellows: Korean to Codeshare with American
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Airlines announce codesharing relationships all the time, and I usually don’t give them a second look. But when an announcement came through yesterday that Korean and American would begin codesharing, I had to do a…
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The Best Kind of Delay (Trip Report)
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A couple months ago, I was emailing with some friends and we jokingly talked about doing a guys’ weekend in Cabo. We had done it for one of their bachelor parties a decade ago and…
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United Walks Away From Dallas Love Field Airport, Makes Southwest Happy and Delta Angry
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To say things took a strange turn at Dallas Love Field Airport on Friday is quite the understatement. After doing everything it could to keep Delta from continuing to fly to Love Field, United has…
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Cranky on the Web – SkyMall Goes Down, Monstrous Blizzards, Cleveland, and Snail Mail
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It was a busy week on the web… SkyMall Lands in Bankruptcy as Air Travelers Shun Catalog – Bloomberg SkyMall is bankrupt and Bloomberg asked me why. You probably can figure it out without my…
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Topic of the Week: Your Comments on the Blog
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This week’s topic is more administrative than usual, because I want to get a better understand of how you’re commenting here on the blog. Comments are really important and I think there tends to be…
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British Airways Realigns Its Program to Make Big Spenders With Large Point Balances Happier (And the Rest, Not So Happy)
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On Monday, British Airways reached out to me seeing if I’d like to get a briefing on something big coming up. I was secretly hoping it was going to be about the Aer Lingus takeover…
