Recent Articles
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Frontier Prepares for a World Where Spirit Continues to Exist
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Frontier made quite the splash this week when it rolled out a whopping 54 new routes for next summer. With such a big rollout, it’s hard…
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Mesa Lives to See Another Day
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Say what you will about Mesa — and there is plenty that has been said — but there is no airline better at pure survival. Mesa…
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Departing JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes Has Little to Show for His Nine Years at the Helm
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JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes recently announced that he would step down on February 12 after a nearly 9 year run. His long-time lieutenant Joanna Geraghty…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: JetBlue, Spirit Left Feeling Blue, MAX 9 Grounding Continues
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JetBlue’s Deflated Spirit When U.S. District Judge William Young ended the merger of JetBlue and Spirit on Tuesday, the fate of both airlines became as…
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JetBlue and Spirit Forced to Develop Their Own Strategies After the Merger is Blocked
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I’ve moved up my usual Thursday post to Wednesday instead… since there was no reason to wait to talk about what just happened yesterday. It…
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The Cranky Flier Interview with Porter EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Kevin Jackson
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. It has finally happened. I conducted an ACTUAL across the aisle interview for the first…
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A Quick Note on the Delta A350-1000 Order
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It’s a holiday, so I normally wouldn’t post today. But I have a backup of things I want to write about, so you get a quicky…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: MAX 9’s Remain Grounded, JetBlue’s New CEO
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FAA’s MAX 9 Investigation Begins The FAA opened its formal investigation into the incident on Alaska Flight 1282 last week, and the government took the…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and the Boeing 737-9 Max
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, direct, or wherever you get your podcasts. Airplanes having problems? Seems like a good reason for Dave and me to get to…
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And the Nominees for the 2024 Cranky Network Awards are…
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It’s that time of year again. When the calendar turns over, that means it’s time to announce the nominees for the Cranky Network Awards. This year’s fourth…
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American’s Europe Fares Can’t Keep Pace
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One of the best things about the coming Cranky Network Awards on Feb 22 in Oakland is that we sift through a ton of data…
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A Confusing Series of Events Following the Boeing 737-9 MAX Losing Its Plug Door
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What a week it’s been in the airline industry. First there was the Japan Airlines A350 landing on a Dash-8, and now, we have the 737-9…
