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DLD 345: Teaming, trimming & traveling

• August 5, 2021
• Tagged as: Aeroplan, Air Canada, Allegiant, Allegient Air, alliance, alliances, American Airlines, Chase, credit card, credit cards, Delta Air Lines, dining, economy class, elite status, ExpressJet, first class, frequent flier, frequent flyer, high-speed rail, jetblue, JetSMART, KLM, lie-flat beds, London, loyalty, Lufthansa, medallion, Nordica, podcast, premium cabin, train, TSA, Uzbekistan, WestJet

More airline partnership and a key route trimmed. Plus, cool new trains and airlines and loyalty plays.

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DLD 339: An uneven (and uneasy) recovery

• June 24, 2021
• Tagged as: 737 MAX 10, Airbus, American Airlines, Bombardier, Cape Town, CPT, CRJ900, Delta Air Lines, jetblue, JNB, Johannesburg, La Compagnie, Milan, MXP, ORY, Paris, podcast, routes, seating, seats, South Africa, South African Airways, St. Maarten, SXM, Tel Aviv, TLV, Trip Report, union

Opening back up is great, but the inconsistencies are hard to handle. So are the lines.

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DLD 337: The Tropics of New England

• June 10, 2021
• Tagged as: AirBaltic, American Airlines, Boom, Boom Supersonic, Breeze Airways, COVID-19, COVID19, credit card, credit cards, cruise, Delta Air Lines, Emirates, inaugural, iOS, iPhone, JFK, JFK Airport, podcast, points, routes, supersonic, Trip Report, TSA, United Airlines, United Kingdom

Summer is heating up in more ways than one. Booking rooms in some destinations is dicey and seems unlikely to get better any time soon.

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• Trip Reports

DLD 334: Live from New York…

• May 20, 2021
• Tagged as: COVID-19, COVID19, crash, Delta Air Lines, Haneda, Hawaii, HND, India, podcast, routes, Southwest Airlines, Tokyo, Trip Report, Vistara

A confluence of work, leisure, and just living has a trio of us on the Williamsburg waterfront on a gorgeous May Saturday for our first in-person recording in well over a year.

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DLD 333: Once more unto the breach

• May 13, 2021
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, 737 MAX 8, Air Senegal, Avelo, Breeze Airways, Delta Air Lines, EASA, HVN, New Haven, United Airlines, United Express

Power issues continue to haunt the 737 MAX and the aviation industry lost a pioneer last week. Plus a new hub and weather in space. C’mon in…

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DLD 330: Aya and Avi’s Airplane Adventure

• April 8, 2021
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, 737 MAX 8200, Air Canada, Air Transat, Alaska Airlines, alliance, alliances, Delta Air Lines, merger, middle seat, Oneworld, Ryanair, special guest

We’ve got a special guest on the show this week, talking about a very special topic. There’s a new aviation-themed children’s book out, Aya and Avi’s Airplane Adventure, and we’ve got the author on to talk about his inspiration for pulling it together and a few other things.

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DLD 329: Dots, Lines & Losers

• March 25, 2021
• Tagged as: Cancun, cargo, Cathay Pacific, credit card, credit cards, Delta Air Lines, Dulles, elite status, FedEx, FreeSpirit, frequent flier, frequent flyer, Frontier, HKG, Hong Kong, IAD, Iceland, loyalty, quarantine, routes, special guest, Spirit Airlines, taxes, tourism

Is this a good episode title? Probably not. Is it a good episode, though??

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DLD 323: 2,000 year-old leftovers

• December 31, 2020
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, Alaska Airlines, Azores Airlines, Delta Air Lines, dining, lawsuit, middle seat, Montenegro Airlines, podcast, Pompeii, routes

We definitely don’t recommend eating it, but the 2,000 year old street meat discoveries in the ruins of Pompeii are all sorts of awesome.

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DLD 319: Bursting that bubble

• November 26, 2020
• Tagged as: Aer Lingus, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Antitrust Immunity, ATI, COVID-19, COVID19, Delta Air Lines, elite status, Emirates, fees, Gatwick, Hong Kong, jetblue, joint venture, LGW, London, MAN, Manchester, podcast, singapore, Stansted, STN, TATL, Transatlantic, Upgrade, upgrades, WestJet

Collapsing joint ventures, splitting London, and plenty of bubbles to burst in this week’s show.

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DLD 315: Please don’t subscribe!

• October 29, 2020
• Tagged as: American Airlines, Cathay Dragon, Cathay Pacific, Delta Air Lines, FreeSpirit, frequent flier, frequent flyer, loyalty, Lufthansa, Miles and More, singapore airlines, Spirit Airlines, United Airlines

A loyalty points scheme not worth buying in to and another that surprisingly is. Plus an airline disappears, a very long flight returns, and lots more!