Posts Tagged ‘ Southwest Airlines ’

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 3-28-11

Before we get into the Top 10, I just felt I had to share this parody of Magic Quadrants and Hype Cycles. Funny stuff.   The biggest news over the weekend was the new feature that Southwest Airlines debuted – sunroofs – that didn’t go over so well [CNN Video]. Southwest grounded amost 80 planes and [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 9-27-10

Navitaire crashes (plural), mergers, executive changes and a movie premiere. Here’s your weekly recap: LCC Consolidation: Southwest acquires AirTran for $1.4B. Expect SWA Bag Cops to be patrolling the AirTran routes as soon as the acquisition is completed. With SWA committed to moving off their TPF-based reservation system, the combined airline now ups the stakes for [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 8-23-10

Lots of interesting stuff this week: Luxury hotel private sales, Southwest to start service from EWR, a must-read for hospitality CISOs and more: Dell offers to buy 3PAR to get into the Cloud game…HP outbids…Dell matches…HP outbids…Dell matches. The current bid is now $1.8B! Giant game of chicken or is HP suckering Dell into a bad [ READ MORE ]

Contintenal Airlines’ Missed “Meals” Marketing Opportunity

There’s been a fair amount of chatter about Continental’s decision this week to stop offering free meals in the economy cabin on their US and Canadian flights.  Even just this morning I saw a tweet from software industry analyst and über-traveler Ray Wang that said: rwang0: Talking to many passengers and FA’s on #continental @continental. once [ READ MORE ]

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