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• This Week on BNET (May 25 - 29)

  Long Beach Airport Garage and Terminal Plans Move Forward The airport is starting to put forth more concrete plans, and it’s sounding pretty good. Southwest Pushes WestJet Codeshare, Shifts Priorities WestJet announced yesterday that Southwest was... Posted May 30 2009, 03:58 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, Southwest, Air New Zealand, LGB - Long Beach, BNET, Alliances, Westjet, Advertising, Labor Relations

• This Week on BNET (March 23-27)

  United Releases Weaker Revenue Guidance United announced that like Continental (though not quite as severe), it is seeing large revenue drops as demand continues to decrease. NBAA Attacks JetBlue’s Bigwig Ad Campaign The NBAA has gone on the attack... Posted Mar 28 2009, 02:20 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, US Airways, Government Regulation, JetBlue, British Airways, American, Virgin Atlantic, BNET, Advertising, Republic, Mokulele

• This Week on BNET (March 16 - 20)

  Hawaiian Still Having Major On-Time Problems On the surface, Hawaiian appears to be doing well in the world of on-time performance, but when you dig down, you see that’s not the case. News and Notes from Continental’s 10-K Digging through... Posted Mar 21 2009, 02:29 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: US Airways, Virgin America, JetBlue, Continental, Hawaiian, Distribution, BNET, Advertising, BKG - Branson

• This Week on BNET (Feb 8 - 13)

  Should Continental Continue to Host Events for Its Best Fliers? Continental just finished up its annual FlyerTalk event. It’s not cheap, but should they continue to spend this money on their best customers? V Australia’s Decision on Which Business... Posted Feb 14 2009, 04:08 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: US Airways, Technology, Virgin America, Schedule Changes, Southwest, Seats, Continental, Inflight Entertainment, V Australia, BNET, Advertising, AirTran, MKE - Milwaukee

• Spirit Wants Ads on Flight Attendants, I Say “Why Not?”

  Spirit has been pretty quiet lately, and that should scare all of us. This is an airline that thrives on getting itself free PR, and it usually does a very good job with it. But maybe their old tricks just aren’t working anymore. So what do they... Posted Jan 30 2009, 04:02 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Advertising, Spirit

• Spirit Brings Ads to Overhead Bins, Bulkheads, and More

  To be honest, I’m really surprised that it took this long for an airline to do this, but if anyone was going to take the plunge, it’s Spirit. The airline has decided that it’s time to plaster aircraft interiors with advertising. Welcome... Posted Sep 18 2008, 04:08 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Advertising, Spirit

• This Week on BNET (Sep 8 - 12)

  American Preparing to Expand International 757 Flying American is putting a true premium cabin on 18 757s so it can start doing more long haul international. What new routes might we see? United Stock Tanks on False Bankruptcy Rumors It was a seemingly... Posted Sep 13 2008, 03:06 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, Technology, Schedule Changes, Singapore Airlines, Seats, Mergers/Finance, Inflight Entertainment, Fares, Air New Zealand, American, Advertising, 757

• This Week on BNET (August 18 - 22)

  Southwest Filing Fares in ATPCO Once Again You may not know ATPCO, but I’m guessing that airlines all over the US are happy to see Southwest back in the system again. Why does it matter? Jake Brace Leaves United The oft-vilified United CFO Jake... Posted Aug 23 2008, 02:41 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, Safety/Security, Schedule Changes, Government Regulation, Southwest, Fares, American, Distribution, Advertising, AirTran, DFW - Dallas/Ft Worth

• This Week on BNET (August 11 - 15)

  How Important is Aircraft Type? Do people really care what type of plane they’re flying on? A report from Boeing says that they do, but I’m not entirely convinced on this one. Air Canada’s Olympic Ads Work, United’s Don’t United and Air Canada... Posted Aug 16 2008, 04:17 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, Government Regulation, British Airways, American, Boeing, Air Canada, Northwest, Advertising, Airbus

• Boarding Pass Ads and Privacy Worries

  Am I the only one who thinks this whole boarding pass advertising thing is a little creepy? It’s not the concept that bothers me. You want to throw some ads on my boarding pass? Go ahead. It’s the fact that they’re using my demographics... Posted Jul 17 2008, 03:35 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, US Airways, Continental, American, Delta, Northwest, Advertising