2022
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Airlines We Lost 2022
It’s that time again where we review the airlines that we lost during the year. And you know what? It was a…
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Reviewing Your 2022 Predictions and Making Your 2023 Picks
It’s been a lot of fun reading through predictions this year. It’s the first time in awhile we’ve started looking beyond COVID,…
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Cranky Weekly Review: United Needs a New Pilot Boss, Boeing’s About to Get Lucky, More
Publishing Note: We’ll be taking some time off during the holidays, so we are pre-scheduling some posts and going quieter than usual.…
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How the American and Mesa Relationship Reached Its Rocky Conclusion
The smart bet would have been on American and Mesa terminating their relationship multiple times over the past several years, but time…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Why is Seat Pitch a Terrible Metric for Legroom?
Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. I hate seat pitch with a passion. Back in the day, it…
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American Ends Its Regional Partnership with Mesa, United Swoops In to Complete the Pilot Circle of Life
The long-troubled relationship between American and its regional partner Mesa has finally reached its conclusion. According to Cirium data and confirmed through…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: United Dreams Big, AA AAdjusts, and More
United Dreams Up Large Aircraft Order United Airlines announced an order of 200 aircraft from Boeing earlier this week, split between 100…
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Boom’s New Engine Plan Is Ambitious… at Best
Boom’s Overture supersonic airplane has been in development for a very long time. And while the company has kept a wildly unrealistic…
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The Cranky Network Awards Are Only 10 Weeks Away and We Need Your Nominations
The 2023 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is only 10 weeks away, and it’s time to start…
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United Orders 100 Boeing 787s and Throws in 100 737 MAXs for Fun
The worst kept secret in recent memory is now official. Today, United announced it is ordering 100 Boeing 787s, adding options for…
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Porter Version 2.0 Gets Ready to Join the Fray Across Canada
Porter is not a new airline, having flown the Canadian skies since 2006. Back then, it was the idea of launching a…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: DHS Still Doesn’t Get Real, JetBlue Spackles New Tile, More
This is The True Story of the Federal Government When it Stops Being Polite…and Starts Getting Real The federal government delayed implementing…