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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 342: Red, Green, or Christmas??

• July 15, 2021
• Tagged as: Bilt Rewards, BlueOrigin, E195-E2, Embraer, loyalty, New Mexico, podcast, Porter Air, Premium Economy, Santa Fe, space, SpaceX, Swiss, Trip Report, Virgin Galactic

Points for paying rent? That’s the underlying premise of the new Bilt Rewards program and, well, it is very different from others that came before.

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• Trip Reports

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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DLD 336: Woohoo!

• June 3, 2021
• Tagged as: airfare, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Belarus, Belize, Canada, elite status, frequent flier, frequent flyer, hijacking, jetblue, loyalty, podcast, Ryanair, upgrades

Many things are happening in the aviation and travel world. We’re talking about some of them in this week’s show.

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DLD 335: It really was that nice

• May 27, 2021
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, Aerion, BizAv, Boeing, Breeze, Breeze Airways, business aviation, Canada, EWR, FAA, LaGuardia, lawsuit, LGA, Lufthansa, Newark, podcast, routes, Spirit Airlines, strike, supersonic, vaccines, Vancouver

A strike, two lawsuits, one shutdown and another airline launch, plus a production boost. The industry is full of happenings and we’re barely scratching the surface.

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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 331: Copycats and Quarantines

• April 22, 2021
• Tagged as: A321LR, A350, A350 XWB, Air Canada, Airbus, Australia, dining, economy class, hotels, jetblue, Kayak, LATAM, loyalty, meals, New Zealand, podcast, Porter Air, quarantine, Radisson, routes, TATL, Transatlantic, TUI

Can you copyright an airline route network? Asking for a friend north of the border. Plus bailouts and refunds and new routes galore!

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DLD 328: The thrill of the hunt

• March 11, 2021
• Tagged as: A321XLR, Air Sinai, Airbus, Antarctica, ATR, Boeing, Bus, business class, DEN, Denver, DOT, Egypt, Egyptair, FAA, FedEx, frequent flier, frequent flyer, Icelandair, Israel, jetblue, London, mistake fare, podcast, routes, TAP, TAP Air Portugal, United Airlines

A mistake fare brought back some excitement we haven’t felt in a long time, even if it eventually cancelled. Plus Iceland to Antarctica and much more!

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DLD 326: Driven!

• February 11, 2021
• Tagged as: 777X, alitalia, Allegient Air, American Airlines, AMS, Amsterdam, bankruptcy, Boeing, business class, Canada, engines, HNA, jetblue, Mint, Nunavut, podcast, Rolls Royce, routes

An aviation podcast talking about driving? Sometimes that’s the only viable option, and it is strange. Plus, so are we.