DLD 414: Aviation’s First Class Podcast
Nothing but the best for our listeners as we wrap up the 2022 season.
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DLD 341: A Midsummer Night’s (fever) Dream
Fancy new screens, a questionable route plan, open borders (sortof) and a trio of new/renewed airlines make the news this week. Plus, what happens if...
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Qatar Airways plans 75% capacity cut in response to COVID-19
The vast majority of its passengers transit the home base rather than stopping. But with borders closing arround the globe Qatar Airways must respond. The...
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DLD 208: The Dash Tens
United's 737-10 and 787-10 combine to change the US transcon market, plus pilot housing in Hong Kong, a FAM gone wild and a potential strike...
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Airline stopovers: Big business or marketing malarkey?
Stopovers arguably built the Icelandic tourism economy and its position in the North Atlantic aviation market. But are such programs a guaranteed success? More and...
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DLD 199: Digging ditches
Manmade islands are all the rage in the Gulf region, but this one is a political chasm, not a luxury residence play. Plus Norwegian shifts...
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Goodbye, Meridiana; Hello, Air Italy!
Italy has a new airline this week and it is not toying around. Expect roughly 50 aircraft to be flying from the Milan-based Air Italy...
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The inaugural hunt: Chasing a half million points from Doha
Qatar Airways is giving away a half million points to any intrepid traveler willing to chase the company's inaugural flights this winter. It is a...
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British Airways seeks Qatari strike-busting help
British Airways is facing another strike at the beginning of July and it has turned to an unlikely partner to help beat some of the...
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DLD 146: Bad timing in so many ways
How do you fight the clock against viral media? And is there ever really a good time for international action that isolates a country? Plus...