Recent Articles
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Elliott and Southwest Declare a Truce… For Now
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Southwest announced its third quarter earnings this week, and the results were not bad. (It’s easy to look good when you announce the same day…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: Southwest and Elliott Find Détente, Frontier and Spirit Can’t Quit Each Other
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Southwest and Elliott Reach Truce Southwest Airlines months-long proxy fight with activist investor Elliott Investment Management appears to finally be coming to a close after…
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Play Airlines Plans to Play in the Sand Instead of the States
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Things don’t appear to be going all that well for Iceland-based Play Airlines, the heir to the WOW Air legacy. With results coming in worse…
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Getting to Southwest Investor Day… on American (Trip Report)
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Analysts and media had circled September 26 on their calendars for a long time. That was the day that Southwest would present its long-awaited plan…
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United’s Atlantic Joint Venture Guides How United Grows
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I’m well aware that I’ve written a lot about United’s recent network announcement, but there’s still more to be said. Today, I want to talk…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: DOT’s DCA Sweepstakes Winners, United’s Profits Soar
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DOT Announces DCA Winners The long-awaited results of the DOT’s awarding of five new perimeter-exempted slots at Washington/National Airport were revealed this week and the…
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I Don’t Understand This Plan, but Elliott’s Showdown with Southwest’s Board Now Has a Date
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Any time something happens in this airline industry we love, there’s a good chance I have an opinion on it. And to get to that…
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Hawaiian Needed Three Airplanes to Get Me Home (Trip Report)
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This was supposed to be a nice and easy flight home from Honolulu after a great trip. I had been sitting on a ton of…
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The Unexpected Rebirth of United’s Narita Hub
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In 1986, United Airlines took over Pan Am’s Pacific route network. This was arguably the beginning of the end for Pan Am, but it’s also…
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Cranky on the Web: Hurricanes and a Data Dive
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The Latest Hurricane Milton Travel Updates – Condé Nast TravelerWhat about the people who were going to Florida on vacation during the hurricane? Well, it…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: Delta Strikes a Profit, United Spans the Globe
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Crowdstrike Causes Famine, Housing Crisis, Rise in Crime, and Delta to Miss Earnings Goals Delta Air Lines’s Q3 Earnings were released Thursday, and the carrier…
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United’s Wild Summer Schedule Shows How Different This Airline Is
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It was just a couple days ago when I talked about how Delta was strengthening its southern European operation next summer, including the addition of…
