If Spirit executes their BK plan well and focuses on fundamentals, such as improving its on-time performance, I believe they have a reasonable chance to succeed.
Most travelers are brand agnostic. Spirit provides good value. And it’s not like United is a flying palace.
If Frontier sells and delivers this product well, I think it has a chance to succeed. It if the airline really wants higher yielding passengers, it will need to add both Wi-Fi and in-seat power.
Those are soooooooo good!
Escape from hell.
And this is a problem. Domestic first should be tangibly better than any product labeled "economy."
#FrontierAirlines is adding first class-style seats (similar to #SpiritAirlines' Big Front Seat"). Cabin service remains same "buy on board" (for now, anyway). #airline #PaxEx #travel via @lesliejosephs.bsky.social
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I remember the first time seeing the "full" quilt display on the DC Mall. I was prepared for it to be overwhelming. But nothing prepared me for when I saw a quilt made for a friend. And then another quilt for another lost friend. And then the third one. And, sadly, far too many more.
I Love Lucy is one of my favorites. So much of it is timeless.
Great news!
It’s Friday #avgeek #cocktail time!
Tonight we are live from #AirFrance 005, JFK-CDG, in business class, enjoying a glass of #Champagne (no vintage glass…sorry).
Wishing everyone a restful, happy, and healthy weekend.
A vôtre santé! #airline #travel #NewYork #Paris #paxex
#Braniff was fabulous. Perhaps the most stylish (though clearly not best managed) US airline ever. I miss them. #avgeek #paxex #FlyingColors
So great you are able to share this with your Mum.
JFK.
Or, as I sometimes say, Idlewild.
🌈 at #SFO! #flysfo #airport #avgeek
Mazel Tov!! This is great news.
Excellent perspective in the article, Seth.
Seth, FEIW, in my experiences, I have seen those sliding gates work pretty well. They’re not perfect, and they require gate agent assistance when a group (ex: a family) with different boarding groups (parent with status, rest without) try to board together.
Friday #avgeek cocktail time!
This week, a gin & tonic in a special #TWA glass. The glass is from 2000. It was made for the #airline’s 70th anniversary & features the iconic #Lockheed Constellation.
The glass wasn’t used on board. It was given to VIPs & sold in the TWA gift catalog.
And this is how I can tell I will be at home here on Bluesky. #avgeek #airline #history
Hearing the L10 engines spool up made me a very happy camper.
🤣 Not quite. They have been on Amadeus since 2017 and have been upgrading the rest of their tech stack.
Thank you, Chris!
I had the same thought. Those seats look very narrow.
707! ♥️
As an #avgeek, it’s nice to see that #Southwest #Airlines still uses some of its original flight numbers on DAL-HOU more than 50 years after its start.
“You show me a Pratt & Whitney customer, and I’ll show you an unhappy customer.” - #JetBlue CEO Marty St. George on P&W engine problems at #Skift #airline conference
“We do not have a model to be all things to all people. We have a model to be profitable” - Marty St. George, #JetBlue CEO, #Skift #airline
The strength of the “premium leisure” trend is now a permanent part of the market, says #JetBlue Marty St. George. Even during the financial crisis in 2008-10, its leisure traffic was more resilient than business travel. #Skift #airline conference
“If 10% of your routes don’t work, you’re not doing your network planning right,” says #JetBlue CEO Marty St. George at #Skift #airline conference. Network planning is about taking intelligent risks, and acting swiftly when they don work out.
#JetBlue will be “much more aggressive” adding summer season long-haul flying and drawing that down during the slower winter season, #airline’s CEO Marty St. George tells @briansummers.bsky.social at #Skift
