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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: United Adds ORD Gates, Elliott Continues to Get Paid
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United Buys Spirit’s Final Two Gates at Chicago/ORD Weeks after selling/assigning gates to American, Spirit found itself to be an equal opportunity hustler, opting this week to sell/assign its final two gates at Chicago’s O’Hare…
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Introduction to Cranky’s Mexican Adventure (Travelogue)
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Having handed over the reins of Cranky Concierge, I decided it was time for a little adventure. I came up with a whole bunch of ideas, but in the end, I settled on something relatively…
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Help Cranky Do a Little Research
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This year, I’m working with a college student from Northwestern, Noah, to learn more about how you consume Cranky Flier and what changes might be good or bad… or at least worth thinking about. And…
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Checking in on BermudAir and Its New Sister AnguillAir
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More than two years ago, I asked, who the heck is BermudAir? The airline has actually been flying for more than two years now, and before the holidays I had the chance to talk with…
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It’s Time to Appreciate The New Southwest
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Today on The Air Show podcast, we released an interview with Southwest COO Andrew Watterson and CFO Tom Doxey. You should listen to that, but I decided to write a companion piece to give some…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Earnings Roll In, United Launches the Next Attack
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AA’s Close to 2025 Could Have Been Worse, but Not by Much American’s Q4 and 2025 earnings were released this week and the airline skated by with a razor thin profit of $99 million for…
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Cincinnati and the Ghosts of Comair
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If Memphis was Northwest’s way of getting geographically beyond its core hubs, Cincinnati did the same thing for Delta but in reverse. Delta was already strong in the south with the impenetrable Atlanta hub, but…
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United To Take Chicago by Force, Will Hit 750 Peak Day Departures
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What a difference a day makes. After writing about the escalating war between United and American yesterday, United has decided it is done messing around. The airline is announcing this morning that it is adding…
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The War Between American and United Continues to Escalate
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It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good, old-fashioned, knock-down war between two airlines, but sure enough it seems that we are in the early stages of that very thing between American and United. This…
