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The U.S. Department of Transportation has published the rules for the new beyond-perimeter (1,250+ miles) slot proceeding at Washington Reagan National Airport. Four slot pairs are for incumbent carriers American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines; and one pair is for limited-incumbent carriers Air Canada and Alaska Airlines. It would seem Spirit Airlines is out. This is what airlines have so far said publicly they will seek: • Alaska - 1 pair for San Diego • American - 1 pair for San Antonio • Delta - 1 pair for Seattle • Southwest - 1 pair for Las Vegas (with continuing same-plane service to Sacramento) • Spirit - 1 pair for San Jose Applications are due by 8 July. #airlines https://lnkd.in/d4RWnSPa

Airlines are embracing a new-found discipline on capacity that is putting an end to a summer airfare war. This should be pleasing for investors, but for customers -- not so much. Read more about this new-found airline discipline in my latest column: https://lnkd.in/gN627bcK

INSIGHTFUL VIDEO: Why Airlines Won’t Fix Inefficient Boarding https://lnkd.in/grmTnfTi Have you ever wondered why we board airplanes the way we do and if there's a faster way? There are numerous different methods to board airplanes: front-to-back, back-to-front, random, unassigned seating and WILMA. CNBC

The course was developed based on ICAO Doc 9587 and Doc 9626

So. You take your lowest fares out of the most efficient distribution channels and call that progress. You screw your best customers by surcharging the processes they use to look after THEIR customers. You deliver “platforms” that are woefully unfit for purpose. You unbundle a bunch of airfares, charge extra for core components, baggage etc and proudly call that “retailing”. You spend millions promoting tactics based on nothing more than wishful thinking, myths and dogma. And this is what success looks like one decade in… Shame on you International Air Transport Association (IATA) and all of the cronies who jumped on the band wagon to nowhere. #NDC is an unparalleled use case in epic failure. #NewDistributionCrock https://lnkd.in/gfi5exUh

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