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3 Links I Love: United Gets a Divorce, Goodbye Turkish Airlines, Zipping to Tokyo, AirAsia X

This Week’s Featured Link

United Air Exits Stake in Parent of Former ExpressJet Airlines – Bloomberg
This was such a strange little legacy… United owning nearly half of an independent regional flying out of Reno. Of course it wasn’t always that way — this used to be the wholly-owned Continental Express — but now it’s over and aha! is on its own.

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With Turkey rebranding itself as Türkiye (pronounced TUR-key-yay), Turkish Airlines is doing some re-branding/re-painting of its own. It’s actually just bringing back THY which will now stand for Türkiye Hava Yollari (aka Turkish Airlines in English). That name will replace Turkish Airlines on the side of the airplanes. I dunno, it’s just doesn’t have the same ring to it… we are Türkiye Hava Yollari, we are globally yours.

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Two for the Road

Low-cost Japan-based airline will launch Tokyo-San Jose flights – SiliconValley.com
ANA has long served this route with a business-focused cabin, but now ZipAir is going to come in with the low cost option? Best of luck.

AirAsia X Is Back! Rejuvenated airline spreads its wings to London, Istanbul and Dubai – AirAsia X News
Apparently AirAsia X was tired of not losing money every day, so it has started to fly airplanes again. That’ll fix that problem.