LV Air: Holographic Celebrity Safety Briefings? Could you imagine a holograph of Frank Sinatra giving you an airline safety briefing?
A new charter carrier that hopes to fly 2 million passengers within its first two years of existence has developed a business plan this year to commence a very unique air service between Las Vegas and New York. LV Air plans to operate four daily nonstops between New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Vegas’ McCarran International Airport.
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Which is the Next Airline to try to Sell Direct to Consumers? Southwest Airlines led the way in pushing, and pushing, and pushing its customers to directly book on southwest.com for all the growing airline's tickets. Now -- finally -- those airlines we call the legacy carriers see they need to do the same, too. And it's rankling some feathers. But it could provide one of the few remaining methods for reducing the cost of "distribution" for most large network air carriers -- and for competing with discount airlines.
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Continental Re-Introduces Concept of Reserved Fares -- For Awhile, at Least Repeating an experiment done in various times and various ways since the Airline Deregulation Act of 1979, Continental Airlines on December 13 introduced a new take on an old option, giving passengers the ability to "lock" in their fare at the level at which they book it, for up to 72 hours, or 7 days, without having to purchase the ticket outright.
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ON THE FLY – Delta retools its inflight, airport services Welcome to a new weekly HelloFlight air travel column titled “On the Fly.” As a longtime aviation travel writer and former public relations executive for three major airlines, I will be focusing my efforts on subjects affecting you, the air travel consumer. I welcome feedback! Write me at jimbrown@hellometro.com.
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The University of Sydney put together a web page of lively and memorable aviation quotes. (Photo by Jim Brown)
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