Brett
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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? –…
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The Trend Toward Pre-Reclining Seats in Coach is a Good Thing
This week it came out that British Airways was doing away with seats that recline on new short-haul aircraft and will instead…
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With an Assist From JetBlue, Hawaiian Chooses Long Beach As Its First New Airport to Serve with the A321neo
Hawaiian Airlines has long had a size issue. Ever since the DC-8s were retired back in the 1990s, the airline has only…
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Just How Did American Perform After Its Pilot Schedule Problem?
Remember way back in early December? There were no absurdly-named bomb cyclones to speak of (if you have had to touch that…