Subject: Air Travel

• Shmuck of the Week

  June 14, 2008

• Dear United Airlines: It's Over!

  June 25, 2008

• Shmuck of the Week

  June 23, 2008

• There and (Not) Back Again: By Frontier

  July 9, 2008

• Traveling Turns South by Southwest

  July 17, 2008

• Frontier gives thanks for loan, loyalty

  August 13, 2008

• Szele just can't straighten up and fly right

  September 26, 2008

• Life in the Slow Lane

  Welcome to Denver International Scareport, always ready for takeoff.

  October 25, 2001

• Burning Airlines

  September 20, 2001

• Follow That Story

  February 28, 2002

• Best DIA Survival Guide

  March 27, 2003

• Frontier Cuts to the Core of Colorado

  Plane talk about the state's homegrown airline.

  July 3, 2008

• United We Strand

  You may not have a flight, but you could be a winner!

  August 10, 2000

• Up in the Air

  A Parker developer is building a dream community for pilots. Neighbors are doing everything they can to keep it grounded.

  August 30, 2007

• File Not Found

  Do you know what's in your luggage?

  October 28, 2004

• I Fathered a Terror Suspect

  Losing the name game at our country's airports.

  July 15, 2004

• Pop Quiz

  Fly Our Fiendly Skies

  January 22, 2004

  January 22, 2004

• Cash Landing

  Looking for Mr. Goodwin, United Airlines' three-million-dollar man.

  November 1, 2001

• Screen and Screen Again

  Forget Victoria's Secret. Argenbright Security has a few secrets of its own.

  October 18, 2001

• Blowing Boeing

  How Denver went pasta point of no return.

  May 17, 2001

• Off Limits

  Heaving on a jet plane

  July 20, 2000

• What's Fare Is Fair

  Denver and United Airlines are in a dogfight over who gets the loot.

  April 22, 1999

• No Labor Lost

  Ellen Golombek plays rough with the Capitol bosses.

  April 8, 1999

• Off Limits

  April 24, 1997

• Soar Loser?

  Western Pacific's losses mount as boss man Ed Beauvais scrambles with new plans.

  October 17, 1996

• Continental Drift

  As prospects dim, Denver aviation officials still chase after an air link to Britain.

  September 19, 1996

• Off Limits

  May 30, 1996

• Taking a Powder

  New airline Jet Aspen finally lands--in bankruptcy court.

  May 30, 1996

• Flights of Fancy

  Denver pays a consultant big money to get overseas flights for DIA--and goes nowhere.

  April 18, 1996

• Excess Baggage

  The checkered past of Jet Aspen's CEO prompts regulators to put the new airline in a holding pattern.

  March 28, 1996

• THE DIA UNDERGROUND

  TUNNELING INTO THE DEEPEST SECRETS OF THE AIRPORT'S CURSED BAGGAGE SYSTEM.

  January 17, 1996

• SOUTHWESTERN FLYER

  THE CITY CLEARS THE TARMAC FOR A TEXAS-SIZED TAXPAYER SUBSIDY AT DIA.

  November 22, 1995

• I'M ED! FLY ME!

  COLORADO SPRINGS BOOSTERS GO UP, UP AND AWAY WITH ED BEAUVAIS.HIGH FLYER HOW MUCH OF A FLIGHT RISK IS WESTERN PACIFIC'S ED BEAUVAIS? JUST ASK THE INVESTORS IN HIS LAST AIRLINE.

  November 15, 1995

• INSIDE THE BELTWAY

  THE BAE BAGGAGE SYSTEM COST HALF A BILLION DOLLARS AND DELAYED DIA'S OPENING FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. AND IT STILL ISN'T WORKING.BAG IT WILL THE CITY HAVE TO PACK IN DIA'S AUTOMATED BAGGAGE SYSTEM?

  October 25, 1995

• FLIGHT RISK

  GUESS WHICH LITTLE AIRLINE IS BACK SNIFFING AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH.

  March 22, 1995

• REACH FOR THE SKY

  THE DIZZYING HEIGHTS OF MARKAIR'S SECRET "ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT PLAN."

  September 28, 1994

• OFF LIMITS

  September 21, 1994

• LOAN SHARKS

  March 23, 1994

• Small Craft Warnings

  Regional airports had high hopes when DIA said it wasn't interested in private avaiation. But guess what? DIA changed its mind. Again. Gorilla tactics as dia makes a grab for private planes, regional airports bail out of their expansion plans.

  January 12, 1994

• Wake-Up Call: Get in line

  Get in line, suckers. Clear, the private program that let pre-registered (and pre-paid, at $199 a year) customers use special fast lanes to get through airport security once their iris scans were on file, has closed down, its parent company "unable to negotiate an agreement with its senior creditor to continue operations," according to Verified Identity Pass's web site. So as summer travel heats up (probably to not much more than lukewarm, given the current economic clime), Clear's clients w

  June 23, 2009

• Frontier Airlines' Grand Junction fly-by sadly predictable

  The Grand Junction airport will soon experience its final Frontier. The purchase of Frontier Airlines by Indianapolis' Republic Airways Holdings will likely lift the carrier from bankruptcy, and that's a very good thing. But the possibility remains that Frontier could move its corporate offices out of Denver in the sort of cost-saving tactic that's already prompted the cancellation of a couple routes -- including the one between Denver and Grand Junction, which will end in September. This deci

  June 25, 2009

• Wanna get away, Denver? Southwest makes bid to buy Frontier Airlines

  ​ Several outlets are reporting that Southwest Airlines is trying to outbid Republic Airways and swoop up Denver's bankrupt hometown airline, Frontier. From the Associated Press: A court had already approved the sale of Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. to the parent of Republic Airways for $108.8 million, but that deal can be nixed if a better offer comes along. Dallas-based Southwest said it submitted a nonbinding bid of $113.6 million. Southwest hopes that making the bid will allow it

  July 30, 2009

• Southwest CEO Gary Kelly on the bid for Frontier

  Gary Kelly.​With yesterday's promise of a $170 million bid for Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines made it clear it really, really wants the Denver-based carrier. After all, the total was nearly $60 million more than its previously announced offer of $113 million, which was already higher than the $108 million total pledged by Southwest's primary rival in the Frontier sweepstakes, Republic Airways Holdings. Gary Kelly, Southwest's CEO and president, stressed this interest in a memo sent

  August 11, 2009

• Republic Airways Holdings lays low in Frontier sweepstakes

  An image from the Republic Airways Holdings website.​Tomorrow's the day when Frontier Airlines hits the auction block, and in recent days, Southwest Airlines, one of two publicly announced suitors, has gotten the vast majority of attention due to the size of its bid: $170 million, nearly $60 million more than the first total it floated. Moreover, Southwest's CEO, Gary Kelly, has been out and proud about his firm's efforts, releasing a statement he sent to Southwest employees about the poss

  August 12, 2009

• Southwest post-game remarks about losing Frontier

  ​Moments ago, Southwest Airlines released a statement about what everyone else had already figured out -- that Southwest's massive bid for Frontier Airlines had fallen apart at the last minute over an inability to get Frontier pilots to concede on seniority-oriented contract issues. In the document, Southwest CEO Gary Kelly, who seemed so confident of victory over early suitor Republic Airways Holdings just days ago, comes across as both magnanimous and philosophical in defeat, saying, "T

  August 14, 2009

• The risks of Republic Airways Holdings' Frontier purchase

  An image from Republic Airways Holdings' website.​A Wall Street Journal article published in the wake of Republic Airways Holdings' surprising victory over Southwest in the Frontier Airlines sweepstakes may temper the enthusiasm with which most locals viewed this unexpected turn. "Commuter Airline Aims Higher," written by Susan Carey, calls Republic's so-called "acquisition spree" risky and points out that the currently profitable firm is "thinly capitalized." As of June 30, Republic had "

  August 17, 2009

• Three possible futures for Denver International Airport

  ​Republic Airways Holdings' victory over Dallas-based Southwest Airlines in the Frontier sweepstakes raises more questions than it answers, as Dallas Morning News airline blogger Eric Torbenson makes clear in "What Will Denver Look Like in Two Years?," an analysis published earlier today. In Torbenson's view, United Airlines may not survive the current turbulence in the airline industry, and even if it does, it could make significant changes to its Denver operation. Likewise, Southwest may

  August 17, 2009

• Southwest lets Frontier know it's not flying away

  ​When Southwest Airlines made its run at purchasing Frontier Airlines this past month, a number of industry observers speculated that it was doing so because Frontier was kicking its ass in Denver. But just because Southwest eventually lost out to underdog Republic Airways Holdings in the Frontier sweepstakes doesn't mean the firm has plans to slowly back out of the market here. Far from it: Southwest has just announced that it's expanding service at Denver International Airport, adding fl

  September 11, 2009

• Hundreds of Frontier Airlines jobs flying away from Denver: Read John Hickenlooper's statement

  ​ Signs that Republic Airways Holdings, owner of Denver-based Frontier Airlines, might move jobs from Colorado to either Milwaukee or Indianapolis have been unavoidable for at least month. Note this October 9 blog, in which Denver Economic Development Corporation executive director Tom Clark sketched out problematic tax issues, as well as "a hangar available at virtually zero occupancy cost in Milwaukee." It's no surprise, then, that Republic will reportedly put down roots at Milwaukee's G

  November 10, 2009

• Do you need to impersonate Barack Obama to get a gig these days?

  November 12, 2009