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Cranky on the Web (June 16 – 20)
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Hawaiian Airlines to Fly Direct to New Zealand – Fodor’s I’m doing a little experiment writing some newsy columns for Fodor’s. This is the first one I’ve done. No opinion in these, just news. Let’s…
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Topic of the Week: 4 Miles to Get to Hong Kong
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United had a glitch this week that allowed people to book award tickets to Hong Kong for only 4 miles. As you would imagine, United has said it won’t honor that rate. Go figure. If…
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Across the Aisle from Pittsburgh Airport’s Executive Director on Pittsburgh’s Recovery After the Death of the Hub (Part 2)
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Welcome back for part two of my across the aisle interview with Brad Penrod, Executive Director/CEO, Allegheny County Airport Authority. On Tuesday, we talked about the rise and fall of the US Airways hub in…
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Across the Aisle from Pittsburgh Airport’s Executive Director on Pittsburgh’s Rise and Fall as a Hub (Part 1)
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I recently had a fantastic opportunity to talk by phone with Brad Penrod, Executive Director/CEO, Allegheny County Airport Authority. Yep, that’s the authority that oversees Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) one of the first mid-size cities…
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JetBlue’s Strong Performance Has Spirit on the Run
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Spirit has been aggressively growing Dallas/Ft Worth service lately, but not all routes have been successful. Notably, DFW to Boston hasn’t worked out well. For the Fall, it is being re-timed to operate during the…
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Cranky on the Web (July 9 – 13)
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American Airlines Merger Possibilities: The Bad and the Worse – Conde Nast Daily Traveler American says it’s evaluating five different airlines for a merger. Oh please. This has to be a joke, right? Photos: Inside…
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Topic of the Week: SkyWest Buys Japanese
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SkyWest will be buying 100 Mitsubishi Regional Jets. These airplanes seat 70 to 90 people and compete head-on with the CRJ-700/900 and Embraer 170/175/190/195 families. Seems to me that Bombardier really loses out here, because…
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A Visit With California Pacific Airlines
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Two long years ago I wrote about a proposed startup called California Pacific Airlines. At the time, I said that it was different from other startups for two reasons. “First of all, [CPAir] actually has…
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Southwest Rightly Kills A Successful Subsidy on the Florida Panhandle
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Something very strange happened last week. St Joe and Southwest agreed to end the subsidy agreement that was put in place to get the airline to start service to Panama City, Florida back in 2010.…
