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DLD 325: Flip-flopping along

• January 28, 2021
• Tagged as: Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, Allegiant, Angola, British Airways, Canada, Chengdu, China, COVID-19, elite status, frequent flier, frequent flyer, Ghana, KLM, LCC, LCCs, Norwegian, O'Hare, ORD, podcast, Porter Air, routes, TAAG, TATL, Transatlantic, transcon, United Airlines, WestJet

The air travel industry is seeing policy changes at an incredible pace, often flipflopping between opposing positions with minimal warning. We’re just trying to keep up…

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DLD 279a: Flying Breezy (fixed)

• February 13, 2020
• Tagged as: Air Italy, Allegient Air, American Airlines, Brazil, Breeze, Breeze Airways, Cape Air, China, GOL, Jeju, JejuAir, LCC, LCCs, pilot shortage, podcast, routes, seaplanes, United Airlines

Is the US market ready for another commercial airline? Serial aviation founder David Neeleman is ready to give it another go, and Breeze hopes to fly later this year.

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DLD 215: Can Clippy start an engine??

• October 18, 2018
• Tagged as: 737, 737MAX, A220, American Airlines, Boeing, BOS, Boston, Dallas, Delta, DFW, DHS, EWR, Heathrow, LaGuardia, LCC, LCCs, LGA, LHR, Newark, routes, security, SIN, singapore, singapore airlines, TATL, Transatlantic, ULCC, United Airlines, WOW Air

Engines, engines, everywhere! Even more of which are now broken. Plus many inaugurals and maybe your biometric security data will be sold to an airline or airport soon.

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DLD 209: To the Primera Meridian

• September 6, 2018
• Tagged as: 737MAX, Berlin, Brussels, California Pacific, CaribAvia, Caribbean, Carlsbad, Cayman Air, China, CLD, LCC, LCCs, London, Primera Air, Stansted, STN, TATL, Transatlantic, Trip Report, TXL, United Airlines

Real-world experience with a new LCC long haul product and lots of talk about more new LCC routes. Plus China/Taiwan troubles continue and some super-cool landing gear will be flying soon.

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DLD 172: Ready. ATL. FIRE!

• December 21, 2017
• Tagged as: A310, ATL, Atlanta, business class, Delta, Delta Air Lines, Eurowings, flat beds, France, GRU, LAS, Las Vegas, LATAM, LCC, Norwegian, PaxEx, podcast, Sao Paulo, SATA, United, United Airlines

Fire in Atlanta, new flights to Tahiti and a hundred new A321s for Delta. Plus LCC flat beds and A310s disappearing. C’mon in for a(nother) fun episode!

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DLD 164: A Stupid LCC Play

• October 26, 2017
• Tagged as: 767, Air Berlin, Boeing, Etihad, Japan, LaGuardia, LCC, LGA, San Francisco, SFO, United, United Airlines

There’s something particularly strange about building an itinerary just to fly 4 different LCCs in 2 days in Japan. That’s what we have Seth for. Plus, a 767 renaissance, LGA shuffles, SFO air art and more.

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DLD 158: Backing off Basic + LCC Cash Concerns

• September 7, 2017
• Tagged as: A350, A350 XWB, Airbus, Delta, Delta Air Lines, economy class, Gatwick, JFK, LCC, LGW, London, Norwegian, Trip Report, United, United Airlines

Come fly across the Atlantic with the crew on an LCC (in Y!) and talk about United’s newly revised A350 order, the evolution of Basic Economy and many US airlines scaling back revenue hopes for 2017.

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DLD 98: Will United Introduce EconomyBusiness?

• December 17, 2015
• Tagged as: Alaska Airlines, american, American Airlines, Austrian Airlines, LCC, Lufthansa, PaxEx, Premium Economy, Star Alliance, Swiss, United, United Airlines

All premiums, all the time, but what does that really mean for passengers. Are these new seating options really an upgrade?