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Slot Controls Don’t Reduce Flight Delays

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Aug 03 2019

Interesting research from Alexander Luttmann at UC Irvine suggests that slot controls don’t actually reduce delays at congested airports because large airlines at major airports “already internalize congestion” when planning their schedules.

That makes sense. Heavily congested airports take longer to get planes in and out. Flight times are longer. That means flights are more expensive — they take up more aircraft time and airlines have to pay their crews more, too.

While the busiest airports see plenty of flights, their largest airlines don’t just keep adding flights because that’s expensive, both for the new flights and for all of their existing flights which suffer greater delays and ultimately get longer flight times.

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Alaska Airlines Offers 10% Off to Newark

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Dec 02 2007

Talk about a non-event. Through January 6th, Alaska Airlines is offering 10% off to Newark as part of its gay travel promotions. Of course, you don’t actually have to be gay to get the discount. You just have to use the promo code EC06607. This is similar to Orbitz gay hotel discounts and $100 gay discounts. Not that there’s anything wrong with that… And yet Alaska is taking heat for their marketing, with an activist portraying the airline as imposing a 10% tax on heterosexuals. “They are giving preferences to male passengers who want to wear dresses on the planes, and giving them preference over married couples,” Now, of course, this isn’t true or a reasonable way to describe Alaska’s marketing efforts. But if Alaska wanted to impose a surcharge on bigots I’d personally favor…

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