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• This Week on BNET (July 14 - July 18)

  Bombardier Kicks Off Farnborough by Launching the C-Series Bombardier has talked about it for years, and now it’s official. The 110 to 130 seat C-Series has launched, and it’s promising massive fuel savings. ExpressJet Ending Branded Service... Posted Jul 19 2008, 02:38 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: US Airways, Safety/Security, Delays/Cancellations, Delta, ExpressJet, Bombardier, Pinnacle

• ExpressJet Ends Branded Service

  The writing has been on the wall for quite awhile hasn’t it? In what has to be one of the most expected announcements in a long time, ExpressJet has now officially decided to end its branded operations on September 2. We all know the story here... Posted Jul 10 2008, 03:50 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: ExpressJet

• Delta Cuts LAX

  The writing had likely been on the wall for sometime, but it looks like Delta’s experiment in building up LAX is coming to a rapid end. Last week, Delta and ExpressJet announced that their agreement (covering 23 regional jets) would end on September... Posted Jul 07 2008, 03:41 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Schedule Changes, LAX - Los Angeles, Delta, Northwest, ExpressJet

• Is This the End of the ExpressJet Brand?

  I would be remiss to not mention the major cuts Continental announced yesterday. The airline will retire 67 aircraft by the end of 2009 that were not previous planned to go. I decided not to write much about that here, because the customer impact is simply... Posted Jun 06 2008, 02:35 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Continental, ExpressJet

• SkyWest and Continental Put the Screws to ExpressJet

  An interesting little merger attempt popped up on Friday that, as Holly Hegeman says, looks like a squeeze play. SkyWest has announced that it wants to buy ExpressJet for $3.50 a share. The airline was hovering just over the $2 a share mark before the... Posted Apr 28 2008, 03:34 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Continental, Mergers/Finance, ExpressJet, SkyWest