January 2021
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3 Links I Love: American Dropping the Hammer, Project New Norwegian, Avatar Billions
This week’s featured link An update on Booking and Ticketing Practices – American SalesLinkI can’t link directly to this, but if you…
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COVID Finally Forces Airlines to Help Travelers With International Travel Rules
Thank you once again to this week’s sponsor, The Airchive for supporting Cranky! I’ve gone back into The Airchive’s archives — say…
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ExpressJet’s Pending Return: Looking Backwards and Forwards
Thank you once again to this week’s sponsor, The Airchive for supporting Cranky! Instead of just showing an ad for The Airchive…
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Dreaming of a Better March While Cutting Back in the Short Term
Thank you to this week’s sponsor for supporting Cranky! TheAirchive.Net is a vast aviation archive of thousands and thousands of items of #AvGeek Goodness:…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – The One About the MAX
Cranky Talk – The One About the MAX We figured it was time to do an episode about the Boeing 737 MAX,…
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3 Links I Love: Vaccinated Skip Tests, Norwegian Lives, Southeast Asia Airports
This week’s featured link Vaccinated travelers could be exempt from quarantine, testing by spring – Hawaii News NowI find it incredible that…
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Blocking Middle Seats Didn’t Pay Off for Delta Last Summer
Delta loves its blocked middle seats, and it has repeatedly said that this is a strategy that’s working for the airline. The…
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How President Biden’s DOT and Congress Can Save the Airline Industry Without Spending Another Dime (Guest Post)
Happy inauguration day, everyone. Even though this year’s was clearly upstaged by… the existence of indoguration day, it remains one of the…
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Winter Cuts Thanks to COVID Testing, Hopeful Summer Growth
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. It’s a new year with a new American President being inaugurated this…
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Cranky on the Web: An Air Travel Rebound, Airlines We Lost
Experts say vaccine rollout, cheap fares may lead to more rapid air travel rebound – ABC NewsIt seems like a lot of…
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3 Links I Love: MCAS Not Needed, CNN Airport Network Dies, JSX at Orange County
This week’s featured link Boeing’s MCAS on the 737 Max may not have been needed at all – The Air CurrentThis long…
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DOT Allows American and JetBlue to Coordinate Schedules in a Landmark Deal
Note: I’m moving my Thursday post up to Wednesday this week, just because I really want to talk about this and don’t…