December 2017
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Cranky on the Web: What 2018 Will Bring
Travel Weekly’s Preview 2018 – Airlines – Travel Weekly My posting schedule is a little backwards since I won’t even have my…
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2017 Flying Summary
There’s no question 2016 was a bad year for flying for me, but 2017 was so much better. The only thing 2017…
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Airlines We Lost 2017
It is that time once again where I pause to remember all the airlines that flew off into the desert this year,…
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Cranky on the Web: What’s On Your Boarding Pass?
Your boarding pass does contain information about you, but whether it can be used for evil is another question – Los Angeles…
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3 Links I Love: Idiocy in Kansas City, The Supersonic Dilemma, Another 747 Tribute
This week’s featured link: Now what? KC Council’s airport vote creates chaos and betrays voters – The Kansas City Star Do you…
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American Significantly Increases Coach Award Space On Connecting Flights
At media day earlier this year, American admitted that it needed to loosen up on award availability. The airline has recently, quietly,…
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My Life on a 747
As anyone who happens to be flying to or through Atlanta this week knows, it has not been a good week for…
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Wondering How Sun Country is Going to Make Its New Owners A Lot of Money
Last week Sun Country was sold by the Davis brothers to funds managed by private-equity-giant Apollo. Apollo isn’t in this just to…
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Cranky on the Web: What’s Behind The Higher Bag Fee Revenue?
Fliers paid a record $1.2 billion in baggage fees last quarter – CNN Money When CNN asked me why airline bag fees…
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3 Links I Love: Horizon Stabilizes, Delta Flight Attendant Reality Show, Canada Retaliates
This week’s featured link: Horizon Air operations stabilize as crisis abates – The Seattle Times It’s good to see a little bit…
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Trump Gets Tough on the Middle East Airlines… Or Possibly Not
If you saw the news earlier this week that President Trump had addressed the gulf carrier subsidy issue, you could be forgiven…
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easyJet Makes Its Move on Berlin
When airberlin finally went under, there was a great deal of concern that Lufthansa would pick up all the pieces and leave…