Recent Articles
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A Stellar Holiday Operation Leaves the Media Digging Deep for Bad Stories
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As usual, I loaded up the car and headed with the family to Arizona for Thanksgiving weekend. Other than occasional slow traffic and long lines…
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Help Me as I Look to Update Cranky Flier
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If you’re a subscriber to Cranky Flier emails, you know that there have been some delivery issues lately. Of course, posts have gone live on…
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Allegiant Tests the Waters At Orlando International On Its Busiest Routes
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Allegiant has decided to go back into Orlando International Airport (MCO) for the first time in over a decade. This doesn’t mean the airline is…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: AMS Angry That It’s Open for Business, Allegiant Throws Darts
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Dutch Government Suspends Flight Restrictions The Dutch federal government pumped the brakes on its previous plan to cap the number of flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol…
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American Continues Push to Create a Completely Different (and Increasingly Non-Existent) Sales Team
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Over the last year, American has undertaken a complete reimagining of its sales programs. It slashed half its staff, eliminated discounts for mid-size companies, ended…
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Flydubai Takes on Widebodies as Emirates Stays Above the Fray
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You’ve probably heard of flydubai, but you also probably think of it as a small airline that flies 737s on the routes from Dubai that…
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Mexico City’s New Airport is a Mess, but Tulum’s Will Be a Winner
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I’ve written about the Mexico City’s trainwreck of an airport problem more than once, but I really haven’t dedicated enough space to a good idea…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: MileagePlus Changes, Breeze Blows Into 7 New Cities
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United MileagePlus Takes First Step Towards Revenue-Only Model United isn’t ready to go full-SkyMiles yet but is moving in that direction as the carrier announced…
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Heading to Phoenix for the World Series (Trip Report)
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Game 5 of the NLCS may have been awful, but games 6 and 7 were incredible and the Diamondbacks moved on to the World Series.…
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Frontier Plans Shift to an Out-and-Back European Operation Model
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Frontier may have revenue problems, as we discussed last week. But here’s the thing about revenue problems… they are a lot less of a problem…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – NDC Woes
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, direct, or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, yeah, it’s been awhile, I know. But we are back, so all of…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: JetBlue is Feeling Blue, Southwest Looks Toward its White Whale
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JetBlue? More Like JetRed JetBlue Airways released its Q3 earnings – or lack thereof – this week, as the carrier announced a loss of $153…
