Ever wonder how much buzz a specific event generates? Blogpulse provides a handy service for tracking the frequency and overall mentions of specific keywords. Below you can see just how much coverage JetBlue’s recent storm issue generated.
JetBlue Blog Mentions
Blomberg is reporting that Transportation Secretary Mary Peters has called for an investigation of JetBlue and American contingency planning.
The Passenger Bill of Rights really seems to be gaining momentum. It’s not clear whether this latest move by the DOT will have any impact on the success of such legislation.
I thought I’d try another popular topic in the airline arena, the fate of Virgin America.
Virgin America has been preparing to launch for almost 3 years. Virgin’s application to the DoT requesting authority to run commercial flights in the US was turned down in December of last year.
Since then Virgin has mounted a campaign to […]
American and Expedia just put out a joint press release announcing that Expedia is now showing all of American’s fares again. You may recall that there was a tiff between the two companies that was officially announced on January 11th. Today’s announcement answers the question of whether this was going to be a three week […]
Mark Tatge at Forbes Magazine has a thought-provoking article this morning on Delta’s future. Mark argues that while the US Airways bid was not successful, Delta will still need to merge in order to compete.
Mark makes the point that Delta’s current structure is a hold-over from the days of airline regulation and that Delta […]
US Airways just put out a press release saying that its bid to merge with Delta Air Lines has been withdrawn.
Kudos to Delta management. Now all they face are the challenges of emerging from bankruptcy and getting to profitability in as short a time as possible. On another positive note for Delta, they secured $2.5 […]
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that US Airways is offering to sweeten its bid for Delta by $1 billion bringing the total offer to about $10.8 billion. The deadline of February 1st remains for reaction by Delta’s creditors.
Initially I gave my vote to US Airways in winning this hostile bid for Delta. I […]
There was a good deal of discussion this week on the story of the three-year old.
This is an emotional topic as evidenced by all of the posts on this subject.
Reaction ranged greatly. One side saw this incident as another reason to call for a Passengers Bill of Rights. As Chris Elliott writes, the call […]
AirTran is trying to manage a story today about how a three-year-old and her parents were kicked off a flight because the girl was throwing a temper tantrum.
AirTran is arguing that the plane was already late, and in fairness to the other 112 passengers on the plane, they requested that the family get off the […]
IAG Blog has some unique pictures of a Chinese 747 freighter with an engine in great need of repair.
