Brett
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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…
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3 Links I Love: A Political Bonus Thanks to Tax Reform, A 747 Wedding
This week’s TWO featured links: Southwest Airlines Rings In The New Year Under Tax Reform With Employee Bonus, Charitable Contribution, And Further…
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Qatar Copies Etihad, Not Emirates In Its Quest to Fly Between Europe and the US
Just recently I wrote about how the real threat posed by the Middle East airlines to those in the US was fifth-freedom…
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Reviewing Your 2017 Predictions and Making Your 2018 Picks
It’s official, 2017 is over so it’s time to look back and see how you all did with your predictions. A year…
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Cranky on the Web: What 2018 Will Bring
Travel Weekly’s Preview 2018 – Airlines – Travel Weekly My posting schedule is a little backwards since I won’t even have my…
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2017 Flying Summary
There’s no question 2016 was a bad year for flying for me, but 2017 was so much better. The only thing 2017…