Brad Beakley
Same Arguments, Different Decades. Time for a New Approach?
American Airlines’ legendary CEO Bob Crandall famously scribbled “Crush these guys” in a memo about an ailing competitor decades ago – a...
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Blogs and Podcasts
Andrea Rader
- Jan 24
- 7 min
Airline Alliances: Catching Up Bringing Airline Alliances Back to the Future
2022 was a pretty messy year for the U.S. airlines, even before the end-of-year Southwest Airlines meltdown. Pilot and other staffing...
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Andrea Rader
- Apr 26, 2022
- 2 min
Happy World Pilots’ Day!
On today's World Pilots’ Day, we’d like to say thank you to the men and women who defy gravity daily to get us (and our stuff) where it...
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Brad Beakley
- Apr 7, 2022
- 4 min
"Too Bad" Isn't Good Enough
There’s a debate swirling in aviation circles concerning the future of airline service to “small cities” as major airlines reconfigure...
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Brad Beakley
- Mar 31, 2022
- 5 min
The New Definition of “Small City Air Service” – and What You Can Do About It
The recent and ongoing exit of airline service from smaller markets underscores the axiom that when the major airlines catch a cold,...
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Michael Warnken
- Feb 8, 2022
- 5 min
Distribution 3.0: Improving Channel Contribution
The airline industry’s relentless focus on costs is understandable in a low-margin business. It’s also the stuff of legend, like the...
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Andrea Rader
- Jan 18, 2022
- 4 min
The Great Re-Think
From the Great Resignation can come the Great Re-think – rethinking how to hire and organize for new times in the airline industry. Once...
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Terry Mcclintock
- Nov 11, 2021
- 3 min
Effective Forecasting, Revenue Management and Pricing Require New Technology and Data Sources
Any number of poets and public figures have been quoted with some variation of, “You can’t know where you’re going unless you know where...
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Danita Waterfall-Brizzi
- Oct 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Rapidly Changing Challenges and Opportunities in the Cargo & Logistics Industry
These past weeks, the Hospitio team has been out on site visits to cargo warehouses in Europe. Our group is leading a global cargo...
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Scott Grosso
- Sep 20, 2021
- 4 min
IROPS-This Summer Was Not as “Irregular” as You May Have Thought
We’ve spent some time at Hospitio analyzing the data and industry events that prove what many air travelers instinctively grasp: the...
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Andrea Rader
- Sep 10, 2021
- 3 min
We Will Always Remember
Everyone remembers where they were. What they were doing. What they did next. For those who were working at an airline on Sept. 11, 2001,...
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Christian Fleischer
- Aug 17, 2021
- 4 min
A Few Tips From My Travels
It was just a few weeks ago that I had written an entirely different blog post. That piece, in late July, waxed poetic about the...
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