Continental begins the Food4Sale era
Making good on a promise from March, today marks the end of “meals at mealtime” on Continental Airlines and the beginning of Food4Sale (F4S) on-board....
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Rain and an IDB* in Palm Springs
Maybe it was the sheer exhaustion from a month of non-stop travel and yet another pre-sunrise flight catching up with me. Maybe it was that...
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Panama without a passport
I’m a pretty big fan of visiting Panama. Each of my previous three visits to the country has been spectacular. Still, the 5 hour flight...
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Party in the forward galley
Every now and then there are fares that attract swarms of folks out looking for miles. When a $140 round-trip transcon comes along, for example,...
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Welcome to the new United
The merger is officially complete. The papers are signed. There are aircraft out flying with the new livery. There is a new safety video featuring...
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Sneak peak at the first new United plane
With the last potential road block in the United Airlines/Continental merger – the lawsuit filed by a group of customers in San Francisco – successfully...
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Southwest shows AirTran some LUV – $1.4Bn buyout announced
Apparently the airline industry is bored when there isn’t enough merger activity going on. Southwest and AirTran have ramped that pace back up again, with...
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The fallout from the Koito seat debacle
Ever since news came out that airline seat manufacturer Koito had been falsifying safety data for their products the industry has been waiting to learn...
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JetBlue to offer awesome in-flight broadband – eventually
JetBlue has made a big splash today with their announcement of an impending in-flight internet offering. The service, leveraging the Ka spectrum of satellite connectivity...
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American opens the bar at Admirals Clubs October 1
Apparently the booze just wants to be free and there is nothing that the airlines can do to stop that. Following a relatively recent move...