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Breeze Airways responded to Avelo’s expansion from last month with five new destinations and 18 new routes, several of which will compete directly with Avelo.
The new cities Breeze will blow into are:
Daytona Beach Erie Newark South Bend Wilmington (NC)New routes for the carrier include Wilmington to Hartford, Fort Myers, Orlando, and Providence, Daytona Beach to Hartford, Raleigh/Durham, Providence, and White Plains, South Bend to Orlando and Fort Myers, Newark to Charleston (WV), and Erie to Orlando.
The carrier is also adding six new routes from its existing station in Sarasota, with new flights from SRQ to Akron/Canton, New York/Islip, Portland (ME), Richmond, Raleigh/Durham, and White Plains.
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Most of us know the feeling when we request compensation from an airline for a delay, cancellation, lost luggage, or other travel hiccup and aren’t happy with the response we get — well, Delta is seeing what it’s like being on the other side of that transaction, as both CrowdStrike and Microsoft’s response to Delta‘s push for compensation for its operational struggles of last month were met with the carrier being told to get bent.
CrowdStrike says Delta did not respond to an offer for assistance when the outage first occurred, and that the carrier rejected repeated offers to help get its system back online, including when Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz specifically reached out to Delta CEO Ed Bastian, only to have his overtures ignored. In Ed’s defense, he did have a trip to Paris to get ready for, and it’s possible he was on hold with Delta customer service trying to rebook his flight to arrive in-time for the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games and unable to answer the call for fear of losing his place in the hold queue.
CrowdStrike’s lawyers also said that its liability for the outage is contractually capped at a figure below $10 million, and that Delta’s claims that it will claw back a significant portion of the $380 million it claims it lost are a fantasy. Delta had no comment as its attempts to do so were met by a blue screen of death.
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Frontier’s earnings report was released Thursday and it showed a teeny-tiny increase of about 1% of total revenue, up to $973 million, while profit on that figure was $31 million, a significant drop from 2023.
The carrier crowed about its cost savings program, launched last year, which saved over $100 million in its first year. What it didn’t tell us was that in order to save the money, it has to sacrifice one animal per year, and this time it was Juan the Puerto Rican Parrot who drew the short straw.
Frontier took delivery of six new A321neos during the three month period, increasing the percentage of its fleet that’s part of the A320neo family to 80%. It ended the period with $658 million in unrestricted cash and cash equivalents, a figure that would have been higher if not for the expensive memorial service held for Juan.
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Canada’s largest airline reported its earnings for the year’s second quarter this week and it showed an income of C$466 million on C$5.5 billion gross revenue.
It flew 11.6 million passengers for the three months, which equals about 10.4 million passengers when converted into U.S. passenger figures. It had a healthy 6.5% increase in ASM from a year ago, which it expects to continue into Q3, with as much as a 4.5% increase from ’23. For the full year 2024, Air Canada is expecting a 5.5-6.5% increase in ASM compared to last year with a 2.5-3.5% increase in CASM. In its year-end projections, the carrier says it made assumptions that the Canadian dollar will average about C$1.36 per USD and that fuel will continue to cost about C$1.03 per litre — litre, of course being the Canadian word for “almost a gallon.”
AC ended the quarter with C$451 million in free cash flow, considerably less than the C$965 million it had a year ago, with most of it having been spent on maple syrup pouches like this one.
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A trial between U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security, and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs will open up both PreCheck and Global Entry to Australian citizens when traveling to and within the United States.
The program will start with a trial of 1,000 Australians next year, and if successful — which it’s supposed to be — will then be open to the majority of Australians. To sign up, Australians will be subject to a criminal history check, plus an accounting of how much Vegemite they’ve consumed in their lifetime, with those in the top 15% of Vegemite consumption expected to have their access to the program denied.
The cost will be US$100, although the first 1,000 who participate in the trial period of the program will have the fee waived. Australia will join several other countries which participate in Global Entry for its citizens, including the UK, Germany, and Singapore.
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I really enjoy hearing all of the national anthems played at the Olympics.
I love country music.