Beached Whale: A380’s future turns more bleak
The A380 is the biggest passenger aircraft in the skies, and it will continue to operate for some time to come. But it will not...
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DLD 241: Quiet anger
Can we talk about that new livery? Plus, more Mexico, SAS's strike and who really owns Hong Kong Airlines these days?
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Finding Star Alliance Business Class Award Seats Across the Pacific
Are there patterns to finding business class award seats? Lots of theories on that topic but here is some hard data to support a few...
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The best A380 economy class seats
Looking for the most comfortable A380 economy class seats? There are 16 different cabin configs currently flying and wide variations in personal space offered. Looking...
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Asiana faces 45 day suspension at SFO
The fallout from the crash of Asiana 214 at San Francisco last July continues. Korean regulators have issued a 45-day suspension to the airline on...
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The “330 days out” myth for award inventory
Used to be that airline reward seats only were available 330 days out. Then that was supposedly no longer the case. What if there was...
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Star Alliance Route List: Transpacific
A while back I started compiling collections of long-haul routes flown by carriers in the different alliances. The main goal was to make it a...
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Asiana 214, and why I wear Hawaiian shirts when I fly
The details surrounding the crash of Asiana 214, a Boeing 777-200ER en route from Seoul Incheon to San Francisco yesterday are still trickling in and...
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United’s response to the premium cabin earning rates changes: better than I expected
Well, the bad news is that United Airlines has confirmed the new earning rates for premium cabin fares on many partner airlines. In posts today...
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Quick earning rate comparison for new Star Alliance partners
With Copa and Avianca/Taca now in Star Alliance the other partner carriers are busy updating their earning charts. Well, some are more busy than others....