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    Online Travel Review has been publishing airline industry news and commentary since 2003.

    Although the OTR started as a blog, the new Online Travel Review hopes to be more of a Huffington Post for the airline industry (I mean that in a good way), bringing together voices from across the commercial aviation world. If you wish to keep the conversation about the airline industry going, please contribute an article/post/idea by sending me an email at jared@onlinetravelreview.com. Don't be shy.

Featured Columns

A Quick Trip Report: Flying with 3 Year Olds Jun 30th, 2009 | By Jared Blank

From what I can tell from other sites, you airline dorks love your trip reports (I mean that entirely with ...
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Delta’s Great International Experiment Is Basically Dead Jun 25th, 2009 | By Jared Blank

Back in 2007 Delta made a bold decision to expand its international flying signficantly from both Atlanta and JFK.  The ...
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featuredimage Northwest Brand to Disappear in 2010: 5 Things We Didn’t Fully Appreciate about Northwest Mar 27th, 2009 | By Jared Blank

Delta announced that the Northwest Airlines brand will disappear by the end of 2010.  I'm fully aware that most airline ...
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Recent Stories

Pilot Gets Angry at Misbehaving Passengers, Kicks Everyone Off Plane and Flies Empty
Jul 1st, 2009 | By Jared Blank

A pilot for Arkefly shuttling a tour group from Amsterdam to Turkey kicked the entire planeload of passengers off the plane after about a dozen passengers were misbehaving during takeoff.  A group of the hoildaymakers were running around the plane and sitting in jumpseats during taxiing away from the terminal in Amsterdam.  They passengers were [...]

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A Quick Trip Report: Flying with 3 Year Olds
Jun 30th, 2009 | By Jared Blank

From what I can tell from other sites, you airline dorks love your trip reports (I mean that entirely with love) with lots of detail about the flights. So I thought I’d pass along this report from my trip last weekend to St. John’s, Newfoundland, with our 3 year old girls, Sage & Scarlett. [...]

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Delta’s Great International Experiment Is Basically Dead
Jun 25th, 2009 | By Jared Blank

Back in 2007 Delta made a bold decision to expand its international flying signficantly from both Atlanta and JFK.  The theory was that the domestic market was oversaturated, and that there was plenty of opportunity to grow to second (and third-) tier cities and stay out of the way of competition.  757s made it cost [...]

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A Great Time Wasting Airline Site
Jun 24th, 2009 | By Jared Blank

(Full credit for this goes to Mark Ashley at Upgrade Travel Better…thanks for the heads up)
Mark points out a really, really great site for ridiculous airline stories over at the Aviation Herald.  The site appears to report all aviation-related incidents, from mechanical issues (whatever) to passengers acting like idiots (fantastic).  Just go through and pick [...]

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71 Passengers Refuse to Fly After Airline Asks Them to Move Seats to Balance Weight
Jun 23rd, 2009 | By Jared Blank

Must be a full moon or something:  71 British travelers flying back to Newcastle from Mallorca refused to board a Thomas Cook flight after crew asked them to move seats to help balance the aircraft weight.  A cargo door was broken, causing the airline to load all cargo into the front hold of the plane.  [...]

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British Airways May Be Closing Down OpenSkies
Jun 22nd, 2009 | By Jared Blank

The Guardian is reporting that British Airways may shut down OpenSkies, its all-business class subsidiary flying between New York, Amsterdam and Paris.  The airline has reportedly been losing money since launch and last year canceled its expansion plans (including plans for a 5th 757).  To bolster its Paris operations it purchased L’Avion about a year [...]

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