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9 Airports, 1 Day: Follow Cranky All Day Long
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The day has finally arrived. Assuming everything runs on time, I’ll be taking 8 Southwest flights touching 9 airports today both to earn a companion pass but also to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the…
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9 Airports, 1 Day: How to Follow Along Tomorrow
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Tomorrow is the big day. Assuming everything runs on time, I’ll take 8 Southwest flights touching 9 airports, all within the State of California. If you’d like a reminder of why I’d do something this…
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3 Links I Love: Why Southwest Says Its IT Failed, Calls for Southwest CEO’s Head, Talking Alaska-Virgin America
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This week’s featured link: Southwest CEO: Router failure that grounded flights equated to ‘once-in-a-thousand-year flood’ – Dallas Morning News Something tells me this is as close as we’re ever going to get to figuring out…
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The Ten Most Viewed Cranky Posts
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I told you I’d put together a couple of special Wednesday posts to look back on the past 10 years, but this one ended being bumped to Thursday. This week I’ve fought off a flu…
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Allegiant’s Transformation Leads to a New Aircraft Order
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I’ve always talked about Allegiant as an airline that loves buying cheap, older aircraft, so was I surprised when the airline announced an order for 12 brand-spanking new A320s last week? No. The whole “cheap”…
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Spirit Does Its Best AirTran Impersonation
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When Bob Fornaro took over as President and CEO of Spirit earlier this year, we knew there would be changes to the airline. What we didn’t know was to what extent Bob would be channeling…
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3 Links I Love: Middle East Fight Continues, Qatar Goes Italian, Lumexis Goodbye
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This week’s featured link: The Middle Carrier Fight Isn’t Dead – Twitter If you read only BoardingArea blogs, you might think that the dispute over subsidies to Middle East carriers was over and the US…
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My First Southwest Flight from Long Beach (Trip Report)
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This wasn’t supposed to be this way. I had to be up in Sonoma for a family event, and initially, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to fly JetSuiteX. Yes, getting to Burbank…
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Celebrate 10 Cranky Years with an Insane Day of Flying on Southwest
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On August 15, 2006, I published “Welcome From the Cranky Flier,” my very first post. Here we are, 10 years and nearly 3,000 posts later and I continue to chug along, writing and putting together…
