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After working in various pricing, sales, and marketing functions for airlinesincluding America West and United, Brett Snyder left to join PriceGrabber.comwhere he remains today as the Director of New Products. Brett writes theaward-winning consumer travel blog, The Cranky Flier, and holds an MBA fromStanford.- more about Brett Snyder »
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- Pan Am Officially Loses Its Right to Fly
- You're probably thinking to yourself, "Hmm, isn't this headline more than 15 years too late?" Sure, if you're talking about the original Pan Am. But the latest version, #4, if you will, has finally, officially, been put out of its misery. If you ever want to learn...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Virgin America Adds Long Haul Flights, JetBlue Cuts Them
- I'm back from my Peruvian travels. Did you miss me? Yeah, I didn't think so. There were some very interesting developments in transcontinental flying while I was gone, and I think it's important to note how two similar airlines are reacting the current market conditions. First...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- The Wonders of Airliners.net
- There are plenty of discussion forums, blogs, and websites that can give you more information on the airline industry, but when it comes to sheer volume of information, it's tough to beat Airliners.net. Though this site may best be known for its photo database, it has some very heavily-trafficked...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Battle of the Airline Blogs
- Slowly but surely, airlines have started to dip their toes into the blogosphere. Some have done better than others. Let's take a look at who is doing it right and who is doing it wrong. The Best: Nuts About Southwest Southwest has not...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- How Valuable is FlyerTalk?
- There are a lot of people at airlines out there that fawn all over what's said on FlyerTalk. Is that the right strategy? It's tough to say exactly how an airline should deal with a site like FlyerTalk, but there's no question that it shouldn't be ignored. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- How to Make Money in the Airline Business Without Flying a Plane
- If you think that the company flying the planes in the air should also be managing them on the ground, you might be surprised to know that's often not the case. Ground handling work has become a nice little business on its own, and in fact, many smaller airlines...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Airbus Testing New Engine Technology
- I mentioned in my C-Series post that engines would make or break that plane, and that Bombardier was planning to use the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan (GTF). There's been a recent development that shows that Airbus may be interested as well. Pratt has been doing...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Top 10 Most Obnoxious Hidden Airline Fees
- I recently wrote about how United was raising its change fee and why that could cause defection to low-cost carriers. Well, according to one article, the change fee doesn't even make the top 10 list of most obnoxious fees. So what is the most obnoxious and why isn't...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- The DOT Numbers That PR Spin Can't Hide
- I've been playing around with the January T100 data from the DOT, and a press release I saw last week made me focus in on Wichita. Why Wichita? Because when an airport puts out a press release entitled, "Wichita Mid-Continent Airport Continues to Set Passenger Records!," I have to...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Some Travel Blogs to Watch
- Starting today, I'm on vacation. Actually by the time this gets posted, I'll already be wandering around Peru. While I'm there, I won't be writing a thing, but through the magic of the internet, you'll still see a post here every day while I'm gone. Ok, maybe...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- A New Burden for Airlines: U.S. Exit Proposal
- On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a proposal for how to deal with non-U.S. citizens departing the U.S. Will it surprise you to hear that it's a disaster for the airlines? If you're an American citizen, you may not know that most foreign...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Delta and Northwest Lose Billions (Not Really)
- So if I called United's $500 million loss yesterday dreadful, then I'm going to have to come up with a far more sinister word for Delta and Northwest's more than $10 billion loss today, right? Well, not really. Losing $10 billion is just silly. Though...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Why United's Skyrocketing Costs Aren't Just About Fuel
- Did anyone catch the name of that bus that hit United Airlines during the first quarter? The airline turned in an absolutely terrible performance followed by an announcement that another 10 to 15 planes will be removed from the fleet above and beyond what's already announced. In addition,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- United Raises Change Fee from $100 to $150
- I know I recently wrote about the wonders of ancillary revenue, but I think it's important to note that not all attempts at creating this kind of value are going to work. One airline is trying to put that theory to the test . . . United has raised...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Why the "Myths" About Airline Mergers Aren't Actually Myths
- You may have seen the op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal that Delta CEO Richard Anderson and Northwest CEO Doug Steenland put together. They argued that there are six myths about airline mergers that are all wrong. I'll argue that they're (mostly) full of it. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Allegiant Air Tests Its Strategy Out West
- It's not really a shift in strategy, so much, as it is an expansion. Allegiant has made a great business bringing tourists a couple of times a week from small towns to major leisure destinations. An announcement this week that the airline would begin flights from Bellingham (Washington)...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- American Kicks Off Earnings Season with Losses
- It's earnings season, and I think it's a safe bet that American's $328 million loss is just a sign of things to come. Airlines are acting like animals heading into winter. They're trying to store up as many nuts (cash) as they can in order to wait for...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Can the C-Series Overtake Boeing and Airbus?
- It seems far-fetched to be sure. Bombardier, manufacturer of all those little regional jets that nobody wants anymore (at least not the smaller ones) decided a while ago that it wanted to play with the big boys and build the C-Series, a series of jets that would compete with...
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Delta and Northwest Combine to Create Giant Headache
- I should have known this was coming. Last night, I had just finished up my post for today when the news broke that Delta and Northwest had finally agreed to merge after months of painful speculation. Now, the management nightmare begins. There are so many issues here,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- American: A Lesson in Crisis Mismanagement
- It looks like American's week of hell has come to an end. After canceling more than 3,000 flights, the airline has seen its operations finally return to normal. Hopefully most travelers have now made it to their destinations. Now we're left wondering . . . what the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
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