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Aero-politics: December 2008 Archives

Holiday airport crises a ray of sunshine for flyer advocates

By David Field on December 30, 2008 8:56 AM | 9 Comments | 1 TrackBack
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9752cc1c-4de3-4e15-a3a4-ad73b40f6a19.jpgWho's happy now? Well, certainly not a lot of flyers. About one million US flyers were delayed or stranded in the days just before Christmas, when some 8,800 flights were cancelled, according to website flightstats.com. Many were in the Pacific Northwest and many, alas, were at the nation's connected-est airport, Chicago O'Hare. O'Hare delays proved that even if Chicago is no longer the nation's busiest airport, it is one with tentacles that do reach awfully far. Blame it on the weather. Snowstorms, ice, fog, and freezing temps slammed the Midwest and by Christmas Weekend, the delays had also enveloped the nation's truly busiest airport, Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson.  We do know one person who took some cold comfort from the chaos: Kate Hanni.
The Californian realtor and founder of flyersrights.org sees the calamities as a widespread return to the bad old days of tarmac delays, the kind that set her on her crusade to begin with and the kind that set the Transportation Department to set up a tarmac delay task force. 

 

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Delta backs off one Paris experiment, bags RDU

By David Field on December 23, 2008 9:11 PM | 7 Comments | No TrackBacks
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  paris_pictures_doorway.jpg.We were puzzled when Delta made the announcement back in November, saying it would fly nonstop to Paris from (drum roll) both Pittsburgh and Raleigh/Durham. It perplexed us in that none of the three end points was a Delta stronghold, even though the Paris end, at Charles de Gaulle, had plenty of SkyTeam feed from alliance pal Air France. But we figured they knew what they were doing and anyway these US cities really were hungry for overseas service. Pittsburgh in particular had not had a transatlantic link since British Airways and then US Airways pulled out in 2004, and RDU had only one, a daily nonstop on American to Heathrow. And we figured that RDU, based in the sunny South and certainly home to a stronger economy, could perhaps support a flight. Nope.
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Feds take yet another stab at LaGuardia delays, congestion

By David Field on December 22, 2008 9:50 PM | 2 Comments | No TrackBacks
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13laguardia.jpgThey won't give up. The Feds just will not give up on fixing LaGuardia, even though the airport operator and the airlines say that the cures proposed are as bad if not worse than the ailment. The FAA tried a slot auction at LaGuardia and the other New York City airports, but the airlines and the airports owner, the Port Authority, got a federal court to block that with a stay that puts off any possible legal resolution until next autumn. Now in the waning days of the Bush administration, the Transportation Department and its FAA say they want to persuade carriers to agree to voluntary flights cuts at the worst and most congested of the three airports, LaGuardia.
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Lufthansa's Mayrhuber on consolidation

By David Field on December 15, 2008 5:02 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
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potato.jpgLeft Field happened to hear Wolfgang Mayrhuber, the chief executive of Lufthansa, who was in Chicago for a Star Alliance chief executives meeting. He spoke over breakfast with reporters as news emerged that Lufthansa was not just buying Austrian but might buy SAS and after LH said it was taking over the stake in bmi that it didn't yet have. The Cologne-based carrier has been on a buying spree for several years, starting with its 2005 takeover of Swissair, now Swiss International, but Mayrhuber repeated his mantra, "We don't just buy airline to have airlines." He went on to explain Luftie's 'modular' approach:
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