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Swelbar Writes Op Ed; Stilwell Wins; and the Wissinger Flop
Message to Joe Sharkey: At Least Tell More of the Story
Republic Pilots: Forget the Leaks and Prepare to Change Vessels
A Race to the Bottom
A Walk Across the Last Five Business Cycles
Not the Last Swelblog -- Swelbar to Join InterVISTAS Consulting
US and AA Labor: Stop Hiding Behind the Idea of Consumer Benefits
FINANCING THE AIRPORT SYSTEM SHOULD REFLECT A CHANGING NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
WITTMAN AND SWELBAR: DESPITE SMALLER INDUSTRY, NETWORK CONNECTIVITY REMAINS
US and AA: AIRLINE MERGER and SMALL COMMUNITY AIR SERVICE MEET AT LGA AND DCA
THE END GAME: IT’S ULTIMATELY ABOUT RETAINING THE CUSTOMER
We The People: Does BTC (Business Travel Coalition) Really Stand For Bamboozling The Consumer?
Stuffing the Turkey
Is The Union Leadership at American Really Representing the Membership’s Best Interests?
Facebook: Will American Friend US Airways?
US Airways And American And The Elephants In The Room
Musings From the Last Five Weeks
US Airways at the Masters: Trying to Win on Thursday?
Swelbar Interview With Emirates' Open Sky Journal
Swelbar: Pondering More of American’s Bankruptcy “News”
Swelbar: Just Thinking About A Few Things
How the Weeks Ahead Will Shape AMR In The Years To Come
If History Is A Lesson – American’s Labor Cuts Will Be Large
Airlines and Airports: Two Different 2012 (and Beyond) Stories
American Airlines, Labor Leverage, US Airways and Chicken Little
FORT WORTH, Texas: The Longer It Goes, The Worse It Will Get
“An Unpleasant Situation That Continually Repeats”
The Ultimate Unintended Consequence: Government Proposals Will Kill Small Community Air Service
The UAW Gets It; U.S. Pilot Unions Don’t
Scope Yet Again; Commenting to a Commenter
American: Limited Options, Pain Likely
It Shouldn’t Be About Scope This Time – Rather Benefiting More Than One Stakeholder Is Key
Global Distribution Systems and the Pretense of Consumer Protection?
Thinking About American’s Contrarian Path to Transformation
Congress Considering More Taxes On The Airline Industry Is A Sin
LaHood Protecting Consumers? Pretending To Protect Consumers?
If Greece Is The G in PI(I)GS, Then U.S. Unions Are The P, Government Is Part Of The S’s And The GDS Are One of the I’s
Autos, Airlines and the Question of Union Relevance
In The Airline Business We Just Do Not Talk About Balance Sheets Enough
Regional Airline and Small Community Air Service: It’s Time to Regionalize, Not Marginalize, the System
Air Canada: Hypocrisy and Competition at the Same Time
Pithy Ramblings On The Past 24 Days
To The GDS's: Either Evolve Or Dissolve -- It's That Simple
Jet Fuel and Labor Part II: Commenting on the Comments
Oil and Water; Jet Fuel and Labor
Wisconsin, Herbert Stein and US Airlines
Nature Abhors A Vacuum - Proving True At The Allied Pilots Association
A Flight Attendant Representation Inflection Point?
Unbundling, Rebundling and Now De-Commoditization
Time to Look Forward – Not Back
Will Restrictive Foreign Ownership Finally Lose Its Virginity?
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?
The Era of Transition, and Hopefully Transformation, Is Top of Mind for British Airways as Well
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
Passive Consolidation Talk Turns Active: Delta and United?
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

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Holly Hegeman, PlaneBuzz
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John Macilree
Ben Mutzabaugh, USA Today
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