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If Spirit executes their BK plan well and focuses on fundamentals, such as improving its on-time performance, I believe they have a reasonable chance to succeed.

Most travelers are brand agnostic. Spirit provides good value. And it’s not like United is a flying palace.

04.12.2024 00:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

If Frontier sells and delivers this product well, I think it has a chance to succeed. It if the airline really wants higher yielding passengers, it will need to add both Wi-Fi and in-seat power.

04.12.2024 00:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Those are soooooooo good!

04.12.2024 00:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Escape from hell.

03.12.2024 14:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

And this is a problem. Domestic first should be tangibly better than any product labeled "economy."

03.12.2024 14:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Frontier Airlines will install first-class seats as industry battles for high-paying flyers Frontier Airlines next year will retrofit its Airbus jetliners to include two rows of first-class seats.

#FrontierAirlines is adding first class-style seats (similar to #SpiritAirlines' Big Front Seat"). Cabin service remains same "buy on board" (for now, anyway). #airline #PaxEx #travel via @lesliejosephs.bsky.social

www.cnbc.com/2024/12/03/f...

03.12.2024 13:24 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I remember the first time seeing the "full" quilt display on the DC Mall. I was prepared for it to be overwhelming. But nothing prepared me for when I saw a quilt made for a friend. And then another quilt for another lost friend. And then the third one. And, sadly, far too many more.

03.12.2024 11:02 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

I Love Lucy is one of my favorites. So much of it is timeless.

03.12.2024 10:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great news!

03.12.2024 10:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s Friday #avgeek #cocktail time!

Tonight we are live from #AirFrance 005, JFK-CDG, in business class, enjoying a glass of #Champagne (no vintage glass…sorry).

Wishing everyone a restful, happy, and healthy weekend.

A vôtre santé! #airline #travel #NewYork #Paris #paxex

01.12.2024 00:43 👍 39 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

#Braniff was fabulous. Perhaps the most stylish (though clearly not best managed) US airline ever. I miss them. #avgeek #paxex #FlyingColors

26.11.2024 14:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So great you are able to share this with your Mum.

23.11.2024 20:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

JFK.

Or, as I sometimes say, Idlewild.

23.11.2024 20:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🌈 at #SFO! #flysfo #airport #avgeek

23.11.2024 20:06 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Mazel Tov!! This is great news.

23.11.2024 04:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent perspective in the article, Seth.

23.11.2024 04:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seth, FEIW, in my experiences, I have seen those sliding gates work pretty well. They’re not perfect, and they require gate agent assistance when a group (ex: a family) with different boarding groups (parent with status, rest without) try to board together.

23.11.2024 04:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A cocktail tumbler etched with TWA’s logo and a Lockheed Constellation aircraft.

A cocktail tumbler etched with TWA’s logo and a Lockheed Constellation aircraft.

A cocktail tumbler etched with TWA’s logo and a Lockheed Constellation aircraft.

A cocktail tumbler etched with TWA’s logo and a Lockheed Constellation aircraft.

A cocktail tumbler etched with TWA’s logo and a Lockheed Constellation aircraft. The glass is filled with a beverage and contains a red propeller-shaped “swizzle stick” that has the TWA logo on it.

A cocktail tumbler etched with TWA’s logo and a Lockheed Constellation aircraft. The glass is filled with a beverage and contains a red propeller-shaped “swizzle stick” that has the TWA logo on it.

Friday #avgeek cocktail time!

This week, a gin & tonic in a special #TWA glass. The glass is from 2000. It was made for the #airline’s 70th anniversary & features the iconic #Lockheed Constellation.

The glass wasn’t used on board. It was given to VIPs & sold in the TWA gift catalog.

23.11.2024 04:11 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

And this is how I can tell I will be at home here on Bluesky. #avgeek #airline #history

15.11.2024 14:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hearing the L10 engines spool up made me a very happy camper.

15.11.2024 14:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤣 Not quite. They have been on Amadeus since 2017 and have been upgrading the rest of their tech stack.

15.11.2024 14:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, Chris!

14.11.2024 13:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I had the same thought. Those seats look very narrow.

14.11.2024 13:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

707! ♥️

14.11.2024 13:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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As an #avgeek, it’s nice to see that #Southwest #Airlines still uses some of its original flight numbers on DAL-HOU more than 50 years after its start.

14.11.2024 12:31 👍 39 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

“You show me a Pratt & Whitney customer, and I’ll show you an unhappy customer.” - #JetBlue CEO Marty St. George on P&W engine problems at #Skift #airline conference

12.11.2024 16:40 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 2

“We do not have a model to be all things to all people. We have a model to be profitable” - Marty St. George, #JetBlue CEO, #Skift #airline

12.11.2024 16:39 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The strength of the “premium leisure” trend is now a permanent part of the market, says #JetBlue Marty St. George. Even during the financial crisis in 2008-10, its leisure traffic was more resilient than business travel. #Skift #airline conference

12.11.2024 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“If 10% of your routes don’t work, you’re not doing your network planning right,” says #JetBlue CEO Marty St. George at #Skift #airline conference. Network planning is about taking intelligent risks, and acting swiftly when they don work out.

12.11.2024 16:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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#JetBlue will be “much more aggressive” adding summer season long-haul flying and drawing that down during the slower winter season, #airline’s CEO Marty St. George tells @briansummers.bsky.social at #Skift

12.11.2024 16:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0