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Travelport touting new agency desktop for all brands
Travelport, Tantalizing. Travelport is planning something called a universal desktop, which if it lives up to its promises will offer almost everything they need to travel agencies in one nice little...
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Tweets tell tales of airline disaster, short and very fast
This is not the kind of Tweet you want. Pretty much every airline, major and minor, uses Twitter, the short-message, mini- microblogging sort of email service. They 'tweet' when they have sales or when...
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Obama releases a few hints on aviation budget
How much? President Obama gave us a few hints about his aviation thinking with a budget outline, one that fell far short of the details a budget often has. That's understandable, since it's his first,...
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Someone takes Ryanair's O'Leary seriously
So, is he kidding? Or, who (m) does he think he is kidding? He is Michael O'Leary, the head of Ryanair, Europe's largest really cheap carrier. O'Leary went onto BBC to tell a morning 'chat show' that...
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Virgin entry provokes Boston triple response
American Airlines moved to protect its position at Boston's Logan International Airport, announcing it will give its frequent flyers three times as many miles when they fly nonstop between Logan and...
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This just in: people hate connecting flights
Eternal truths: Veritas Aeternas. From MIT, home of smart things, comes this profound insight; people do not like connecting flights. Also breaking from this institution that drinks deeply from the...
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Akron-Canton's Fred Krum has passed away
This post is as much a personal note as it is professional one: we take note of the passage of Fred Krum, the man who ran the Akron/Canton airport and more or less single-handedly made CAK, as the...
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Amendments and the FAA bill, made complex
Why do they do this: so when a guy in a congressional committee offers an amendment, it's supposed to make a bill better, right? And people are supposed to talk about the amendment and then vote in it....
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Bailout backlash blasts better venues
Kerry wins! John Kerry, that is. The 2004 presidential nominee may have lost that race by seems to have won his campaign to shame US companies into cancelling their cruises and meetings. Outraged by...
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An airline union with a positive message
Southwest began its service to Minneapolis/St. Paul, which may be big but is old news. What is new news is that the airline wasn't just welcomed by mayors, airport officials and others. One of...
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O'Leary: we weren't kidding about airport check-in.
We didn't believe him when Michael O'Leary came out and began moving his lips. He was yakking about how Ryanair was going to start charging people to use its on-board lavatories (oh the headlines!)...
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AMR's Tom Horton to AMR's pilots: be grateful
Our mother always told us that we should be grateful, either for the roof over our head or the vegetables on our plate. She probably would have felt that same way about employment. Too bad she didn't...
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Air Azul's blue-skies plan
You would think the nation has a limited supply of really underserved airport markets, but Allegiant Air has demonstrated that the states have plenty of Grand Forks and Billings. Now comes Air Azul, a...
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AA, BA, PJs and ATI: oneworld premium products may differ
Oneworld, the global alliance that's led by BA and AA, is pressing US officials hard to get antitrust immunity for their transatlantic operations; they've included Finnair and Royal Jordanian as well...
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Fee-free fracas starts at on-line booking sites
Fees fracas: there's been a lot of chatter about fees that the airlines charge and how to calculate them. But that kafuffle overlooks the fact that some on-line travel sites charge you fees to make a...
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