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- The United and Continental Pilots Engage In MISInformational Picketing
- A Post Election Thought: Just How Many Commercial Air Service Airports Do We Really Need?
- Swelblog: On Election Morn
- Analyst Engel Does RJ Math; Swelbar Opines
- Southwest Puts Its Money to Work – Announces Intention to Buy AirTran
- Giving Thought to the Export – Import Bank Issue; Not to Protectionism
- Dear Chairman Oberstar: What Do You Mean This Is Not What You Voted For?
- Time to Rethink the Virtuous Circle
- Market Realignment: Labor, Mexico and the U.S. Regionals
- Time to Sustain to Avoid the Inevitable Pain
- Ramblings on Meddling and the “Public Good”
- THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: UNDERSCORING THAT THE MARKETPLACE IS NOW ABOUT GLOBAL FLOWS
- Buried Alive: Signed Tentative at American Declared Dead
- my testimony on the continental - united merger before the house judiciary committee
- Mirror Mirror on the Wall: What about American after All?
- Consolidation Is the Logical Next Step in the Industry’s Evolution
- The NMB Finally Issues Its Representation Rule: What’s Next For The US Airline Industry?
- Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: What About US Airways After All?
- Mayday! Mayday! NOT.
- Swelblog's First Guest Column: Dr. Amy Cohn on Tarmac Delays
- What Would Yoda Say to the APFA?
- United and US Airways: Third Time a Charm? I Say “Do No Harm”
- Pondering American and jetBlue: Most Interesting
- Dear Southwest: Grab Your Bag of Fiction; It’s On
- Continental Makes a Most Interesting Proposal to Its Pilots: Delta plus $1
- Mainline Pilot Scope: Will Regional Carriers Be Permitted to Fly 90+ Seat Aircraft?
- How 'Bout Those Maryland Terrapins
- Airline Stuff: A Little of Last Week; A Little of This Week; A lot of Cynicism
- Patience and Perseverance: Tilton Walks It Like He Talks It
- February 2010: Short on Days, Long on News
- Pondering Washington Politics and Dilemmas over Airline Strikes
- A Battle for JAL or the Threat of Competition?
- Let’s Make Today’s Unions Tomorrow’s Source for Labor
- Swelblog’s 12 Airline Industry News Items of 2009
- Sacred Cows and Fatigue
- Montie Brewer: Five Reasons Why the Airline Industry Will Never be Profitable
- Self-Help or Self Sacrifice or Self Fulfilling Prophecy? What Will This Accomplish?
- Is the Proposed NMB Rule Change Wright or Wrong?
- The National Mediation Board: From Honest Brokers to K Street Politicians
- Swelbar on Airlines: Just Thinkin’; Just Sayin’
- US Pilot Unions’ Dirty Little Secrets
- Two Years Ago Today: No Swelblog.com
- Airline Industry Eyes on the National Mediation Board
- Nibbling on a Little Crow While Watching Eagles Fly
- “Go Ahead, Bite the Big Apple; Don’t Mind the Maggots”
- US Airline Labor Says Cyclical; Reality Says Secular
- Again Dear Richard: You Are Not A Virgin Anymore
- Pondering Southwest’s Potential Play on Frontier
- Propagating Harm: Senators Boxer and Snowe; and Kate Hanni
- Let’s Just Get It Out There: Would You Loan To a (Union) Labor Intensive (Airline) Industry?
- Are Some US Airlines Too Big to Fail? Hell No!
- In the Spirit of LAN: Another Emerging Strategy?
- Neither Ponzi nor Pyramid, but an End Game Nonetheless?
- Is Republic Changing the Face of the US Domestic Market?
- Meanderings on US Open Golf and the US Airline Industry
- Frontier and Republic; Republic and Frontier
- Aboard UA #2: Reading Captain Wallach’s Latest Half Truths
- Colgan 3407: Fatigue, Commuting and Compensation
- Former America West Pilots Prevail in Phoenix District Court
- Can Autos Learn from Airline Bankruptcies?
- Capital, Labor and Seniority in the News
- 1st Quarter Earnings Calls: Unbungling; Unbundling But Not Unshackled
- Liquidity, Labor and Legislation
- Empathy for Ron Gettelfinger
- The United – Aer Lingus Venture: The Chicago Tribune Perpetuating the Past
- Thinking about the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book
- Jim "Hell NO”berstar and Thomas K. Merton
- Sullying the Airline Safety Story
- Mumblin’, Bumblin’ and Stumblin’ for Something to Write
- A Look at US Airline CEO Compensation Through a Different Lens
- Disequilibrium Everywhere; Stimulus Nowhere
- In Dallas/Ft. Worth: Compare and Contrast; Contrast and Compare
- “South by Southwest”: A Theme of Mistaken Identity; Deception; or the Airline’s New Reality?
- Part Trap(ed); Part T.A.R.P.(ed)
- Prioritizing US Airline Industry Needs for 2009
- In Reality, There Was Only One Airline Story in 2008
- AA’s Labor Negotiation Scenarios Get Even More Interesting
- PRASM, TRASM and now FRASM? Oh My
- Musing on Cars, Planes and Readers
- Planes and Automobiles: Why?
- Stuffing Romy's Thanksgiving “Turkey”
- Delta's Singular Focus: Executing Its Singular Vision
- Autos & Airlines: Similarities are Frightening
- Airline Labor Relations’ Eyes on Southwest
- The Dinosaurs Are Extinct ... Right?
- 05. The Swelbar Deregulation Index
- 04. It’s Airline Deregulation Bday Week: Stakeholder Winners & Losers
- 03. It’s Airline Deregulation Bday Week: Management & Labor; Boom & Bust
- 02. It’s Airline Deregulation Bday Week: Triangulating Southwest to the Point of Indifference
- 01. It’s Airline Deregulation Bday Week: Economic Impact of Commercial Aviation
- Aviation News Just Breeds Itself in the Dallas Metroplex
- Just Who Will Inherit the US Domestic Market? Don’t Forget Today’s “Regional Carriers”
- Just Another Manic Monday
- One Year Ago Today…….No Swelblog.com
- Memorializing Yet Another Date in 2008
- “Capital Is Global, Labor Is Local”
- These Really Are Dynamic Times
- Dynamic, Dynamic, Dynamic; Bless Air Canada; and the Education of Stakeholders
- Olympic, Alitalia, American and the Wings Club
- Dear Richard: You Are Not a Virgin Anymore
- The Global Airline Industry and Its Interdependencies
- Horton Says American Means It
- STEEEEEE….rike 1
- Autos and Airlines: 30 Years Later - No Time for Bailouts
- Begging ……. The Questions
- Campaign Season: Little Substance and Fewer Facts
- The Summer of 2008 ……..
- Leverage Detoxification: Banks and Airlines
- Speculation, Consternation and Regurgitation
- Energy and Air Service to Markets of All Sizes
- Are We Beginning to Define US Airline Industry Survivors?
- Grab a Big ‘Ol Cup of Jo, and Let’s Talk Airline Service Cuts
- The Reality Show Called Airlines
- Is Oil A Cancer Or A Cure?
- Continental, United and the STAR Alliance
- 10 Airline Issues That Have My Attention
- Identifying the World’s (the US’s) Best
- A Recent Swelbar Interview
- Rambling, Musing and Pondering on Airline Industry Issues
- Contrasting the APA Message with the APFA Message
- American Airlines and the Allied Pilots Association: A $3 Billion Question
- Unbundling Our Way On The Search To Find The Inelastic Demand
- Pondering the Next Move; But Before I Do…….
- Now This Is A Little More About What I Have Been Talkin' About
- Back to the Future?
- Yawn
- Let’s Just Continue the War of Attrition
- Reflecting on Today’s Congressional Testimony in the DL-NW Deal
- The Elastic Induced Ride to Inelasticity
- Reacquainted With A Great Quote
- April 15, 2008: A Day to Remember or a Day to Forget?
- Delta - Northwest Deal Is Real
- This Week’s Conversation Will Be In Words that Start With “C”
- Is American Airlines Playing the Final Round of the Masters on Thursday?
- The First Four Out Are Not the Final Four
- Fuel Up, Forecasts Down and Labor at American Airlines Drills a Dry Hole
- Still Pondering a Northwest – Delta Combination
- Northwest – Delta Back On?
- “A Flying Pig”
- Not Time For “Hush Money”
- Ironical Catalysts; Seniority No More?; and One Last Comment on Force Majeure
- Invoking the Force Majeure Clause: Oil Taking Its Toll
- Just Wondering, Or Am I Wandering?
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- Yet Another Prism from Swelbar to Think About US Carrier Competitiveness in the Global Airline Industry
- Leaping Into Madness
- Time Well Spent; Unchanged Catalysts to Consolidation; and Concerns Surrounding the Delta – Northwest Deal
- Where is Swelbar? Thinking About US Airline Industry Structure in Zurich
- Pondering a Delta – Northwest Merger Yet Again: Irony and Sad Irony
- First Labor Hurdle Cleared in Delta – Northwest Deal?
- Thinking about This Week’s Airline News: Industry Structure; Labor; and the Customer
- Continuing to Ponder a Northwest – Delta Combination
- F + E = LPP^DL: Fairness and Equity; Seniority Integration; Union Representation; and Lee Moak Again
- Hell Yes, Going It Alone Remains an Option
- Swelblog.com: Taking Great Exception with Congressman Oberstar
- Quote for the Week of January 20, 2008
- Dear US Government: I hope you are reading the newspaper
- Pondering A Northwest – Delta Combination
- Converging Catalysts Making a Case for Consolidation?
- How 'Bout Those Maryland Terrapins
- Consolidation, Mediation and an Explanation
- A Little Blackbook on Creative Destruction
- 01-02-08: Manufacturing Sector Disappoints + $100 Oil = Continued Airline Stock Carnage
- Ringing Out the Old, Ringing In the New. NOT
- Putting a Few Packages (of Airline Industry Issues) Under the Tree for Readers to Unwrap
- It Is True: Lufthansa to Buy 19% Stake in jetBlue
- Is It True, Lufthansa to Buy Stake in jetBlue?
- Maybe the Allied Pilots Association Is Really Onto Something
- If It Doesn’t Add, Let’s Begin the Subtraction Process
- Heeding the Divestiture Cry? American to Spin Off Its Eagle Unit
- U.S. Airline Management and Labor: The World is Smirking at US
- Thank you flyby519
- Dear Mr. President (and Congress): These Short-term Solutions to Congestion Gives Me Indigestion
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- Wondering Thoughts From 5 Time Zones Away
- My Beginnings and Increasingly Appreciating Tilton's Message
- Swelblog.com: The First 31 Days
- Just Put It On Ice: American’s Ability to Pay ≠ APA’s Expectations
- Circular Logic: US Airways and the Economics of Entitlement
- “I hear the train a "C"omin'”
- Transforming the Transatlantic Market Into a Transcon Market?
- Self Help
- Musings and Meanderings Over the Past Week
- All Eyes on Texas
- Swelblog.com Taxiing Into Position
03.3.2010
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