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DLD 403: White tails, new deals, and new lines

• September 22, 2022
• Tagged as: 737MAX, American Airlines, AMS, Boeing, Boom Supersonic, California, China, codeshare, Delta Air Lines, dining, Doha, electric aircraft, Emirates, France, Heart, Horizon Air, London, meals, podcast, Ryanair, San Francisco, Schiphol, SFO, strike, Tailwind, union, United Airlines, ZipAir

Catching up on some reader mail, and also on big changes coming in airports served, meals on board, and vaguely boring partnerships.

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DLD 402: Three planes you’ll probably never fly. Or maybe four.

• September 15, 2022
• Tagged as: Aeroflot, Airbus, Alaska Airlines, bagtag, Boeing, Boom, Boom Supersonic, Companion Pass, EWR, frequent flier, frequent flyer, IATA, Irkut, ITA Airlines, Italy, JFK, JFK Airport, MC-21, New York City, Newark, NFTs, Russia, Southwest Airlines, SSJ100, sukhoi, Tupelov, United Airlines

Can Russia produce more than 300 commercial aircraft by the end of the decade to backfill the Boeing and Airbus frames that will be inoperable by then? And would you fly on one if they do??

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DLD 401: The end of Summer

• September 8, 2022
• Tagged as: 747, 747-8i, 787, 787-9, A340, A340-600, A380, Aeroplan, Air Canada, ATR, ATR 42, awards, Boeing, China Airlines, codeshare, crash, Emirates, Israel, rewards, Saab 340, Saudi Arabia, Silver Airways, Thai Airways, TSA, United Airlines

Summer is ending, but travel continues. And optimism remains strong, at least in some segments of the industry.

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DLD 398: A great American hero? Or zero?

• August 25, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, American Airlines, Boeing, Boom Supersonic, business class, cargo, Changi, Emirates, engines, Ethiopian Airlines, Faroe Islands, first class, Hertz, podcast, premium cabin, Rolls Royce, routes, Russia, SIN, singapore, supersonic, transcon, United Airlines, WizzAir

So much news from American we might have to rebrand the show. But lots of other goodies, too.

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DLD 395: Ripe for disruption

• August 4, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX 7, 777X, 787, A330-900, A330neo, A350, Aeroplan, Air Canada, Air France, American Airlines, awards, Boeing, British Airways, business class, crash, Delta Air Lines, Frontier, IAG, Iberia, International Airline Group, jetblue, Krisflyer, merger, points, rewards, routes, seating, seats, singapore airlines, Spirit Airlines, Virgin Atlantic

More leisure travelers than expected, plus some gardening tips. Oh, and lots of airline news, too.

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• Trip Reports

DLD 394: Farnborough Follow-up

• July 28, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX 10, A320neo, A321neo, A321XLR, Air Canada, Airbus, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Boeing, Boom, Boom Supersonic, business class, Delta Air Lines, E195-E2, earnings, EasyJet, Embraer, engines, eVTOL, Farnborough, FIA2022, frequent flier, frequent flyer, Heathrow, hydrogen, joint venture, LATAM, points, Porter Air, Trip Report, United Airlines

Despite being one of the slowest major air shows for new order announcements in years, Farnborough 2022 offered plenty of news.

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DLD 392: Heat wave

• July 14, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX 10, A220, Akasa, bankruptcy, Boeing, Brazil, Breeze Airways, Cathay Pacific, Connect Airlines, credit card, credit cards, E190, Eva, frequent flier, frequent flyer, GIG, HKG, Hong Kong, India, NFTs, points, routes, SAS, United Airlines

As if airport crowds and luggage SNAFUs aren’t enough, summer heat waves are adding to the challenges in travel.

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DLD 384: Competition great and small

• May 12, 2022
• Tagged as: 777X, A321XLR, Air France, Airbus, Avelo, Avianca, Boeing, Breeze Airways, cargo, Colombia, crash, credit cards, Egyptair, elite status, freighter, lounge, lounges, Lufthansa, MCO, Orlando, Russia, Sky Club, Turkish Airlines, Viva

Mergers generally reduce competition. Upstarts increase it. And somewhere in the middle, we like to talk about all of options.

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DLD 382: Punch out

• April 28, 2022
• Tagged as: 777X, American Airlines, Boeing, Breeze Airways, British Airways, China, China Airlines, COVID-19, COVID19, HPN, jetblue, podcast, Recaro, routes, Spirit Airlines, United Airlines, White Plains

Hard to believe we’re still saying this, but please stop being an asshole on airplanes. Or anywhere else, really. But definitely not on airplanes.

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DLD 378: Plus-ing it up

• March 31, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, 737 MAX 10, A321XLR, Aeroflot, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, AKL, Alaska Airlines, Auckland, Boeing, certification, China Eastern, crash, Dallas, DFW, MEL, Melbourne, podcast, Qantas, Rossiya, routes, Russia, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines

At some point “Plus” has to not be the default naming of whatever new thing a company comes up with, right? Alas, this is not that week.