Brett
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Mexicana’s Delayed Launch Plan Comes Into Focus, and The News is Not Good
The new Mexicana — a brand purchased by the Mexican government to be run as a military airline — was hoping to…
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A Stellar Holiday Operation Leaves the Media Digging Deep for Bad Stories
As usual, I loaded up the car and headed with the family to Arizona for Thanksgiving weekend. Other than occasional slow traffic…
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Help Me as I Look to Update Cranky Flier
If you’re a subscriber to Cranky Flier emails, you know that there have been some delivery issues lately. Of course, posts have…
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Allegiant Tests the Waters At Orlando International On Its Busiest Routes
Allegiant has decided to go back into Orlando International Airport (MCO) for the first time in over a decade. This doesn’t mean…
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American Continues Push to Create a Completely Different (and Increasingly Non-Existent) Sales Team
Over the last year, American has undertaken a complete reimagining of its sales programs. It slashed half its staff, eliminated discounts for…
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Flydubai Takes on Widebodies as Emirates Stays Above the Fray
You’ve probably heard of flydubai, but you also probably think of it as a small airline that flies 737s on the routes…
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Mexico City’s New Airport is a Mess, but Tulum’s Will Be a Winner
I’ve written about the Mexico City’s trainwreck of an airport problem more than once, but I really haven’t dedicated enough space to…
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Heading to Phoenix for the World Series (Trip Report)
Game 5 of the NLCS may have been awful, but games 6 and 7 were incredible and the Diamondbacks moved on to…
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Frontier Plans Shift to an Out-and-Back European Operation Model
Frontier may have revenue problems, as we discussed last week. But here’s the thing about revenue problems… they are a lot less…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – NDC Woes
Listen on Apple, Spotify, direct, or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, yeah, it’s been awhile, I know. But we are back,…
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Heading to Phoenix for the NLCS (Trip Report)
It was twenty five years ago when I fell in love with baseball. I had started to show interest during college when…
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Beyond West Maui: Five Nights in Wailea
After waving goodbye to Hāna, we made the pleasant drive back toward the airport. I dropped off the BMW and then moved…