Delta Is Making a Massive Change to Its Frequent-Flier Program
There are two kinds of airline passengers: people who pay for their own tickets and people who don’t.
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Like most retailers, Walmart blamed the awful weather during the vital Christmas shopping season for its mediocre results in the quarter ending January 31. The company reported quarterly sales of $128.8 billion, up a tepid 1.4% …
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Delta Is Spending $770 Million to Make the Cheap Seats Bigger
Good news for frequent and/or larger fliers: Delta is going to spend $770 million to provide more room for your gluteus maxi on its A319 and A320s, part of a larger program to spruce up some of the older jets in its fleet, …
JetBlue’s Got Bigger Problems Than the Polar Vortex
If you were trying to get to Vegas on JetBlue’s Flight 711 yesterday, you were out of luck. So were customers on more than 400 JetBlue flights, as the crippling “polar vortex” snow and cold combined with new Federal …
Workhorse DC-9 Heads to the Afterlife in the Sky
Delta’s flight 2014 from Minneapolis to Atlanta yesterday had all the attraction of a longish bus ride. Passengers will be riding a jalopy of a jet, a 120-seat DC-9 that was manufactured in 1978. The round trip fare on the …
Does Ron Burgundy Know That Chrysler’s Now an Italian Car Company?
America just got itself a new Italian automobile company: Chrysler. Fiat agreed to buy the 41.46% of Chrysler shares held by a United Auto Workers (UAW) union’s health care trust for $3.65 billion in cash plus $700 million in …
The Budget Deal Is Going to Jack Up Your Airfare
Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza is a cheeky sort who revels in selling deep discount seats without any pretense of air travel being some kind of magical experience. To him, it’s a bus with wings and should be priced …
Under Barra, Expect a More Radical GM
The new CEO’s mantra is simple: “No more crappy cars.”