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Alaska Air announces new partner — SkyWest, Caesars Palace seeks funding for new tower, new Las Vegas airline to add new flavor to Vegas’ JFK route

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Project Sunshine for new cruise ship, rat problem on Alaska plane, Boeing planning on replacing the 737

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Horizon Air changes business model, Qantas grounds Q400s, Southwest Airline FAs don’t mind the 737-800s

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Pilot saw eagle coming at jet, airline passengers sue over FA’s decision, Southwest CEO cautious about the future

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Struggling Japan Airlines is seeking an infusion of $550 million from Delta as well as several billion Yen from Air France-KLM.

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Forbes had an interesting diagnosis the other day of what ails the airline industry based on financial disclosures. The article featured an insightful prognostication by independent airline analysis Robert Herbst of airlinefinancials.com of which airlines might be around nine months from now.

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Everyone is pretty familiar with the threat levels that were instituted after 9/11/2001. Now a committee is deciding whether they should keep it or at least modify it.

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Despite losses due to a drop in passenger traffic, analysts feel that few airlines will be heading off to bankruptcy court.

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Despite a “pessimistic research report released last week,” Boeing says that the Dreamliner will be certified on time for delivery to ANA in the first quarter of 2010.

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American, Delta, Alaska and Southwest are all testing broadband Wi-Fi on their aircraft. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, but most of those positive reviews and eagerness to use the system again may be skewed by the fact that these tests were free. The jury is still out with the verdict about how much will passengers be willing to pay for inflight Wi-Fi.

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