Brett
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Cranky on the Web: American Slashes Sales Again
American Airlines dismantles its corporate sales division – Travel WeeklyAmerican just won’t sit still when it comes to its ever-shrinking sales team.…
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JetBlue’s Full-Court Press to Get the Spirit Deal Done
JetBlue has decided to go on offense instead of just waiting for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) court case blocking the acquisition…
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Contrails are The Enemy, and There’s a Plan to Stop Them
Other than the wacky conspiracy theory belief that those long streaks of white in the air are actually “chemtrails” where the government…
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Honoring the Flight Crews That Died 22 Years Ago Today
It’s a shift that can give you whiplash. Saturday was Cranky Dorkfest where hundreds of us gathered, ate burgers, watched airplanes, and…
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Alaska Airlines Gets Us to Oregon… and Back (Trip Report)
We try to do a summer vacation with my parents along with my brother and his family once a year if we…
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See You at Cranky Dorkfest 2023 This Saturday
We’re only three short days away from Cranky Dorkfest 2023! I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there. The Details If you were…
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Regionals Are So Desperate for Captains, Mesa Will Pay Anyone $20,000 to Find One
We all know that regional airlines have struggled to attract enough pilots to keep their operations running over the last couple years.…
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Cranky on the Web: Paying to Avoid Children
For travelers who want to avoid babies and kids, one airline will test an adults-only section – Associated PressI have no problem…
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Alaska Eliminates the Need for the Airport Passport Check
When I flew Alaska out of Portland recently, I noticed that there were still kiosks there for international travel. Those machines’ days…
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Who the F*&@ is BermudAir?
I haven’t done one of these posts in awhile, so… let’s do it. BermudAir is a new airline that’s going to start…
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Red Way Goes Away
It appears that Lincoln, Nebraska’s longshot play to get more air service has now failed.. and remarkably quickly. The creative but risky…
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American Gets Harder and Harder to Work With (Tales From the Field)
You said you wanted to hear more tales from our experiences at Cranky Concierge, so here I am with another round. I’ve…