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Sometimes the battle for interiors takes a silly turn.

The only downside of a booze emporium of this size is passengers are restricted to what they can purchase and travel with. Now they need a shipping service.

Round-the-world tickets aren't a frequent purchase, but they're an excellent way to market an alliance's size, network, and amenities.

At the end of the day, airlines are customer-service companies and it will benefit their customers and operations to have leadership that better reflects who is flying today.

While we have no faith in trickle-down economics, there is a real correlation between design improvements in first class and life getting a little better in economy.

Virgin and Delta have a fifth of the available gates at Love Field, while Southwest retains everything else. It's interesting when Delta is the little guy.

It's a breathtaking lounge and bound to be popular with top-tier customers, possibly tempting enough to get others to fly more, in order to earn the privilege of letting off some steam between flights.

Security of aviation is of the utmost priority, but so is ensuring the convenience of flying in the long term. If the economic pressure to liberalize the sale and transport of Duty-Free items has helped fund and fuel these initiatives, then we can all drink to that.

It's a pleasant surprise that this interiors arms race is not just about first or business class.

Not having to wait on NextGen implementation to move forward is a huge advantage, and removes an excuse that airlines have for not implementing live flight tracking.