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Biden the ‘Unifier’ Ignores Divisions
Naomi Lim of the Washington Examiner highlights one way in which President Biden has failed to live up to his campaign message. President Joe Biden, who campaigned on lowering the…
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
airport in Arlington County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., United States
Law & Public Safety
The nation’s capital should not be an armed camp
Rich Lowry of National Review Online explains his opposition to a massive military presence in Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., is not, counter to what you might think, a war zone.…
Law & Public Safety
Kavanaugh split gets even uglier
Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner highlights the latest demonstration of the political polarization involving the Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Republicans and Democrats are ramping up…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Amazon HQ2 Watch: What Does Bezos’ Plane Tell Us?
Will it be Raleigh? Will it be Boston? Will it be Los Angeles? The country is on ‘Bezos Watch’ following the announcement of the top 20 cities for Amazon’s HQ2…
Transportation
Delta Air Lines adds RDU-DCA and CLT-JFK
Delta Air Lines loaded two interesting new routes over the weekend: • Raleigh – Washington Reagan National (DCA), four times a day on CRJ900 76-seat two-class regional jets effective August…
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Bye, bye US Airways
A week from now, the US Airways brand will be no more, with the airline absorbed into the American Airlines brand. The Charlotte Observer provides a summary of what that…
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Hello Burlington
US Airways will soon add another domestic destination from CLT: Burlington, Vermont (BTV). A single daily flight begins on August 18th (the return from BTV starts the next day) on…
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The Ottawa pullback
And the promised look at why US Airways’ Charlotte-Ottawa flight is ending in early June. The simple answer is that the Canadian market has turned against US Airways. If you…
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The next step in the Us Airways/American Airlines merger
Cross-fleeting, meaning have a US Airways plane fly an American Airlines route or have an American Airlines plane fly a US Airways route. The idea is to better utilize the…
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Virgin America gets Dallas Love Field gates
And that means no Dallas Love Field flight on Southwest to Charlotte. And with this comes a lesson in exactly how stupid and even antitrust counterproductive policy can be. Recall…
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US Airways DCA reductions
US Airways has now loaded the reductions in their Washington Reagan National (DCA) flying as part of the antitrust agreement to merge with American Airlines. All told, the two airlines…
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US Airways to add OKC and TUL flights from CLT
With OKC being Oklahoma City while TUL is Tulsa. Per the Charlotte Observer, flights start on July 2 and are twice-daily on large regional jets (have a first class section).…