Recent Articles
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Spirit’s Turnaround Plan is Filled With Hopes and Dreams, Few Specifics
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To the surprise of nobody, Spirit lost a bunch more money in the fourth quarter of 2023. In fact, it lost over $160 million excluding special…
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When Hot Markets Go Cold: Vegas Edition
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I looked at the awful Q3 results for Orlando last week, and this week it’s time to look at the other market everyone’s talking about:…
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Cranky on the Web: 10 Years Since United Left Cleveland
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Lower fares, fewer flights: How the closure of United’s hub in Cleveland has altered air travel over 10 years – Cleveland.comIt’s been 10 years since…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Spirit Comes Up Short, Frontier Adds a Perfect 10
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Spirit Ends Tumultuous Year in the Red Spirit Airlines’s 2023 Earnings Report revealed that 2023 ended with a loss as the carrier reported a $215…
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Across the Aisle Interviews, Distribution, Operations, Podcast, Southwest, The Cranky Flier InterviewThe Cranky Flier Interview with Southwest SVP Network Planning and Network Operations Control Adam Decaire
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Back in 2022 when Andrew Watterson moved from Chief Commercial Officer at Southwest to Chief…
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When Hot Markets Go Cold: Orlando Edition
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We heard last year all about the struggles in the ultra low cost carrier (ULCC) world, but now that we have DOT’s Q3 2023 data,…
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SkyWest Finds a Place for All Those CRJs With Contour Stake
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There’s a good chance you missed it, but in SkyWest’s earnings release this week, the airline announced it bought a 25 percent stake in Contour. This…
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Cranky on the Web: The Idiotic Attacks on Airline Diversity
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How right-wing influencers turned airplanes and airports into culture war battlegrounds – NBC NewsThe fact that there was even enough chatter to write this article…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: JetBlue & Spirit Appeal, American Goes Long
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JetBlue, Spirit File Appeal The lawyers for JetBlue and Spirit, realizing their gravy train might be nearing an end, convinced both carriers to file an…
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JetBlue Starts to Reveal a Plan to Improve On Its Own, And It Isn’t Terrible
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JetBlue has spent much of the last couple years hoping that others would solve its problems. First it was the Northeast Alliance with American and then…
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One Part of Breeze’s Financials is Hard to Believe
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As you know, I almost never allow guest posts on the site, but that doesn’t stop people from sending over ideas. On very rare occasion,…
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Aeroméxico and Delta Joint Venture Forced to Unwind As Political Fight Escalates
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In a scathing smack-down of Mexican government policies, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) has told Aeroméxico and Delta that they must end their joint…
