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The Washington Post embarrassed itself with another Christoper Elliott column on Thursday.
Elliott contends that air travel has reached a breaking point, becoming so annoying that people aren’t flying anymore.
Star Alliance member Avianca outright sells elite status in their LifeMiles frequent flyer program. It’s $1200 for Silver elite and $2200 for Gold. Avianca’s Gold status is Star Alliance Gold.
Dallas Love Field has 20 gates. They are legally forbidden to build more. (Thanks, Congress!)
Southwest has 16 gates. They’ve subleased 2 from United. That’s 18. The other 2 gates are controlled by Virgin America.
Delta flies from the former United gates. There’s a big court battle over whether they’ll be able to continue to squat on those gates or not. And it all started with the federal government requiring American to give up its gates to Virgin America.
Ben Mutzabaugh has a good piece on the other really bad airports, although I suspect investments at LaGuardia won’t make it better any time soon.
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Representative John Mica (R-FL) has introduced legislation to cap checked bag fees at $4.50.
He’s grandstanding. Because people don’t like paying checked bag fees. So he proposes to eliminate them. To borrow a line from Milton Friedman, Southwest notwithstanding, “there’s no such thing as a free checked bag.”
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Reihan Salam, via Tyler Cowen, says that if you want to improve air travel you should focus on reducing congestion, not building palatial airports. That’s mostly right.
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Delta’s lease for gates at Dallas Love Field expires July 6 but they continue to sell tickets after that. Southwest is growing its schedule assuming use of the gates. The federal government says Delta has to be accommodated because it already serves the airport. No matter what the airport does, it gets sued. Now they’re suing to stop the suits.
And even American now says that if DOT claims everyone needs to be accommodated they want gates too even though they pushed for a law that prevents the airport from increasing the number of gates there.
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