Upgraded: Weird contraband found at airports Downgraded: Pigeon welfare The NY Daily News has a set of photos of items found by customs agents at airports. Most are drug related, but my favorite has to be this image of a man with pigeons wrapped up and kept in his long underwear: “Sir, your pa...

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Filed under: Activism, North America, United States, Airlines, News Blame Northwest. Or, blame the merger with Delta. Either way, peanuts are back, and some passengers are pissed. On February 1, Northwest began dishing out peanuts on flights, which Delta has been doing since dirt was new. The timing...

Filed under: Airlines Part of me thinks: They should've known better. Then another part thinks: But it was in writing. It's fair game. Free fares on Northwest Airlines posted last Thursday were snatched up by happy travelers, then reneged a few days later. The spokesman from Delta Airlines (who boug...

Filed under: Forecasts, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), Ford Motor (F), Motorola (MOT), Research in Motion (RIMM), Washington Mutual (WM), Economic data, JetBlue Airways (JBLU) The weak market conditions have caused many stock prices to fall under $10. Not only smaller -...

Filed under: Business, Airlines, News The news, so to speak, is inevitable, as last night's news and this morning's press conference are confirming: Delta and Northwest Airlines are to merge. Together they will form the world's largest airline capable of moving more passengers to more corners of the...

Filed under: Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Delta Air Lines (DAL) With Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines said-to-be-close to announcing a merger, according to Reuters, analysts and business executives will closely-evaluate the proposed deal's details, parsing it to see if it is capa...

Northwest Airlines has asked Delta Air Lines if it would like to restart merger talks, despite the inability of the carriers’ pilots to agree on how to merge their all-important seniority lists, The New York Times reported. The latest discussion between Northwest and Delta was tentative, The Times...

Sorry I missed Friday for a post but I’ll make it up the next week, I have a TON to talk about (really, I have no idea how I’m going to get it all out - I’ll try mulitple smaller/quicker posts). The reason I missed Friday is because I was flying around all day. I had to make 1 stop...

Here's the state of the airline merger party. It's pretty much agreed that Delta and Northwest will merge. Yeah we called it. It was tough, too. The fact that Delta hired CEO Richard "Anybody Wanna Buy An Airline?" Anderson, formerly the CEO of Northwest, made it like, really hard to tell which airl...