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Is United Slowing Down Flights to Save Fuel? (Ask Cranky)
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I’ve got a follow-up for an old Ask Cranky post today. In January, I wrote about why Delta might change flight times by a few minutes here and there. I received a similar question from…
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Feeling the History at Washington National Airport
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Last month when I flew in and out of Washington National Airport, it brought back a lot of memories. The airport has changed a great deal since I first arrived for college in 1995, but…
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Cranky on the Web (March 14 – 18)
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Fuel ‘surcharge’ a fare increase with a fancy name – CNN.com Out of the Office This week, it’s time to talk about fuel prices. They’re going higher and so are fares, but the two aren’t…
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Topic of the Week: The (Temporarily) Shrinking Japanese Market
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In light of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown 1-2-3 punch, traffic to Japan is plunging. Delta has suspended its Haneda flights for a few months, Singapore has indefinitely postponed its A380 service there, and other airlines around…
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Lufthansa Goes Back in Time, Gives First Class Travelers a Seat and a Bed
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Airlines have spent a lot of time and effort trying to figure out a way to squeeze a seat and a bed into a very small space on an airplane, and they’ve done an admirable…
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Delta Comes out Swinging at Frontier Over Minneapolis Move
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Anyone who thinks that the days of airline schedule retaliation are over clearly hasn’t been watching Delta. The airline is royally pissed that Frontier had the gall to enter the Minneapolis to Kansas City market…
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American, BA, Iberia Need to Eliminate Differences or Do a Better Job of Highlighting Them
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Last week, American and its joint venture partners British Airways and Iberia were here in Southern California to pitch the benefits of the joint venture to the region. The airlines are launching a lot of…
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Cranky on the Web (March 5 – 11)
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Weather, tarmac rule irk airlines – Arizona Republic Another article talking about long tarmac delays, and I was asked to comment. The scoop on business class seats – CNN Out of the Office This week,…
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Spirit Goes Into One of the Most Competitive Markets In the US, But Why?
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It’s Spirit week here at Cranky, and not in the “ra ra, go team” kind of way. I’m talking about Spirit Airlines. I actually hadn’t planned on talking about them twice this week, but soon…
