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Aer Lingus adds 3 U.S. cities to its network

Aer Lingus is expanding its roster of U.S. cities with service to Dublin, adding new routes to Los Angeles, Newark and Hartford, CT. It’s Aer Lingus’ biggest one-time expansion since it first started flying trans-Atlantic in 1958.   Aer Lingus…

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U.S. has a (nearly) ghost airport, too

We’ve written here before about Spain’s Castellon airport, until recently marooned without flights since it opened several years ago. But USA Today has uncovered a U.S. airport in nearly the same situation.   Mid America Airport in Muscoutah, IL,…

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Pope Francis to take AAdvantage of American

  Well, maybe he won’t be collecting miles on his travels, but the Pope’s travels from DC to New York and on to Philadelphia, and then home to Rome will be on a chartered American Airlines 777. He flew from Rome to Cuba and then to Washington on…

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American Airlines drops out of Israel: No profit

American Airlines is cancelling its money-losing service to Israel, as of January. The company’s only US-to-Israel service, a daily flight from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv was originally operated by US Airways before the merger with AA in 2013.   In…

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EU Commission gives OK for Aer Lingus takeover

The European Commission today cleared the last barrier for the sale of Ireland’s Aer Lingus to British Airways’ holding company, International Airlines Group. The deal already had approval from Aer Lingus’s board, the Irish government and Ryanair,…

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Now boarding, Flight 9¾ to Hogwarts…

Severus Snape checking in passengers at Laguardia? What’s going on here?   Well, it’s actually not the Potions Master of Hogwarts, played in the movies by Alan Rickman. It’s David Dolci, an American Airlines gate agent. After several years of…

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AA flight delays blamed on pilot iPad crash

American Airlines, the first airline to ditch huge paper pilot flight books for iPads, has had a little trouble with them this week. The airline reports that 24 flights on Tuesday (4/28) and 50 more yesterday were delayed by failure of an app that…

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Aer Lingus adds 3 U.S. cities to its network

Aer Lingus is expanding its roster of U.S. cities with service to Dublin, adding new routes to Los Angeles, Newark and Hartford, CT. It’s Aer Lingus’ biggest one-time expansion since it first started flying trans-Atlantic in 1958.   Aer Lingus…

Read More

U.S. has a (nearly) ghost airport, too

We’ve written here before about Spain’s Castellon airport, until recently marooned without flights since it opened several years ago. But USA Today has uncovered a U.S. airport in nearly the same situation.   Mid America Airport in Muscoutah, IL,…

Read More

Pope Francis to take AAdvantage of American

  Well, maybe he won’t be collecting miles on his travels, but the Pope’s travels from DC to New York and on to Philadelphia, and then home to Rome will be on a chartered American Airlines 777. He flew from Rome to Cuba and then to Washington on…

Read More

American Airlines drops out of Israel: No profit

American Airlines is cancelling its money-losing service to Israel, as of January. The company’s only US-to-Israel service, a daily flight from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv was originally operated by US Airways before the merger with AA in 2013.   In…

Read More

EU Commission gives OK for Aer Lingus takeover

The European Commission today cleared the last barrier for the sale of Ireland’s Aer Lingus to British Airways’ holding company, International Airlines Group. The deal already had approval from Aer Lingus’s board, the Irish government and Ryanair,…

Read More

Now boarding, Flight 9¾ to Hogwarts…

Severus Snape checking in passengers at Laguardia? What’s going on here?   Well, it’s actually not the Potions Master of Hogwarts, played in the movies by Alan Rickman. It’s David Dolci, an American Airlines gate agent. After several years of…

Read More

AA flight delays blamed on pilot iPad crash

American Airlines, the first airline to ditch huge paper pilot flight books for iPads, has had a little trouble with them this week. The airline reports that 24 flights on Tuesday (4/28) and 50 more yesterday were delayed by failure of an app that…

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