Recent Articles
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A Tale of Two Cities: Expanding on Last Week’s The Air Show Podcast
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Last week on The Air Show podcast, Jon Ostrower, Brian Sumers, and I dove head first into the two northern corners of the Continental US,…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Delta is Profitable, Spirit Not so Much
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Delta Ekes Out Q1 Profit As it usually is, Delta Air Lines was the first major U.S. carrier to release its earnings report, and the…
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American’s Revenue Performance Sinks
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Cirium recently loaded the Department of Transportation’s DB1B data for Q4 2023, and I eagerly dove in to look for trends. What kept standing out…
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Spirit Airlines Halts Growth Plans and Things Could Get Uglier
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If you happen to be around the Fort Lauderdale airport and hear a grinding sound, don’t worry. It’s not an airplane’s mechanical problem. It’s just…
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United Postpones Start of Faro, Cebu Due to FAA Restrictions
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Rumors had been swirling, but on March 22, United’s VP of Corporate Safety Sasha Johnson put out an internal memo explaining that the airline would…
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Cranky on the Web: Travel Again, Variable Bag Fees, Higher Fares, Sexiness
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Travel Again Podcast (Episode 2) with Mike McCormick and Ed SilverMike and Ed asked me to come on to talk about a variety of things……
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Frontier FAs Have Beef, UA Pilots Asked to Take a Break
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Frontier’s FAs Don’t Like New Schedule Format As Frontier shifts its scheduling model to have more out-and-back turns to improve its shaky operational reliability, its…
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Southwest Inches Closer to Flying Redeyes
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This is a post that probably could have been written a decade ago. After all, the idea that Southwest would eventually start flying redeyes always…
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A Spring Training Day Trip on Southwest (Trip Report)
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It was time for my annual baseball spring training trip with friends and former colleagues. I missed it last year, so I was determined not…
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Boeing Announces New 797 to Replace the 737 Family
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After more than 50 years, Boeing has finally announced plans to cancel the Boeing 737 program. The company is going to launch the new and…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: FAA Looks at UA, Breeze Adds Five
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FAA Casts Eye Towards United The FAA is putting United on its own version of a performance improvement plan, as it increases oversight of the…
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Lufthansa Group’s Acquisition of ITA Hits a Snag
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It’s been far too long since I’ve written about the worst airline ever, but now seemed like the right time to jump back in and…
