Brett
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A Conversation With Myself About United’s Domestic Growth Plan
United’s third quarter earnings call did not go over well with Wall Street, and last week’s fourth quarter call? Well that didn’t…
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Cranky on the Web: 2018 Air Travel Trends, Reserving Overhead Bins
The Big Air Travel Trends of 2018: More Comfort and Price Points – Wendy Perrin #WOWWeek Wendy Perrin had her WOW Week…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest Sues, Delta Fights Comfort Animal Fraud, Yet Another 747 Tribute
This week’s featured link: Southwest’s Bullshit Lawsuit Over A Site That Made $45 Helping People Book Cheaper Flights – TechDirt This guy…
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Delta Finally Brings Back the Part of an Interline Agreement with American That Matters Most
It has been more than two years since Delta effectively killed its interline agreement with American. Now, after several painful operational messes,…
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Questioning the Volaris-Frontier Codeshare
I really don’t like codeshares, but I can understand the rationale for putting them together. It’s all about increasing traffic by putting…
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Biometric Boarding is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not (and You Should Like It)
I headed out to gate 152 in the Bradley Terminal at LAX last Thursday to watch British Airways board a 787 bound…
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Cranky on the Web: Where Flight Numbers Come From, Translating Airline-Speak, How To Fly First Class
Whoops, I forgot to post this yesterday, so a Sunday post it is… Those four-digit flight designations? Their days may be numbered…
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3 Links I Love: Privatizing JFK, Heathrow Plan Cuts, Clearing the Runways of Snow
This week’s featured link: The time has come to privatize JFK Airport – New York Post It’s a rare day that I…
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How Long Do I Have to Use My Airline Ticket? (Ask Cranky)
I realize the title of this sounds odd since, you know, you usually just use your ticket when you take the flights…
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United Improves While JetBlue, Alaska, and Southwest Don’t in 2017 On-Time Derby
It’s time for some fun with numbers. The year is over, and my technical issue with masFlight was fixed. That means I…
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Icelandair Tries New Market Types to Protect Its Model in a MAX/neo World
On a cold winter back in 1999, my college friends and I decided to spend our last spring break in the exact…
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3 Links I Love: Why JFK is Terrible (Reason #3,194), Alaska’s Winter of Discontent, Americans Flee to Tijuana
This week’s featured link: Why Did New York’s JFK Airport Struggle to Cope With Its Flight Backlog After the Bomb Cyclone? –…