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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Alaska Adds, Avelo Subtracts
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Alaska Orders All the Airplanes Alaska Airlines placed the largest aircraft order in its history, agreeing to terms with Boeing, its Seattle neighbor, for 105 B737-10s, five more B787s, options for another 35 737-10s, a…
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American Will Battle United to the Death in Chicago
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For decades, Chicago’s O’Hare has been a two-airline hub. In one corner, you have hometown hero United. In the other, you’ll find long-time titan American. Since the pandemic, things have been tilting in United’s favor…
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American Makes a Bet That Customers Won’t Hate and May Actually Prefer Longer Trips
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Yesterday I talked about how American is trying to improve its DFW hub by adding more block time (longer flight durations) and going from a nine to 13-bank hub structure. This is likely to mean…
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American Prioritizes Operational Improvement With DFW Hub Changes
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The weekend after Christmas is usually blissfully quiet for us at Cranky Network Weekly as airlines usually just do a little clean-up and let their network teams catch their collective breath. That was not the…
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Airlines We Lost 2025
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. It’s once again time to look at the airlines we lost in 2025. There was a little internal controversy here on one airline that I…
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Reviewing Your 2025 Predictions and Making Your 2026 Picks
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Happy new year, everybody! It’s true there are a few days left for your predictions to come true, but let’s stick with the idea that things won’t change between now and then. On that note,…
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2025 Flying Summary
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It’s the end of another year, and I did some good flying this year, but I just didn’t do that much of it. With the exception of a Hawaiʻi trip, it was entirely a year…
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Spirit’s November Data Is Here and It Ain’t Pretty
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I was done for the year. Oh sure, I have the usual year-end posts, but I was ready to take a break. Then Spirit’s November data dropped, and I couldn’t just ignore that, could I?…
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Viva and Volaris Propose a Merger of Equals to Dominate México
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I did not see this one coming. Mexico’s two biggest airlines have proposed a merger of sorts. This seems like a pretty wild proposal considering they are, again, Mexico’s two largest airlines. Is there some…
