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A Look at the Focus Cities JetBlue Wants to Grow From the Spirit Deal
I recently wrote about potential overlap between the new JetBlue/Spirit combo and the Big Four airlines, but that is a messy comparison…
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Cranky on the Web: The Summer of Suck and What to Do About It, A Spirited Obituary
AP is here to help you navigate the summer’s travel chaos – TwitterI did my first Twitter Spaces appearance — which is…
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3 Links I Love: When Double Miles Don’t Matter, FAA Trouble, Piedmont Grows, Vin Flies Continental
This Week’s Featured Link Hawaiian Airlines to Mahalo Members with Double Hawaiian Miles on Every Neighbor Island Flight through the End of…
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Better Gate Management Could Have Helped on This Southwest Flight (Trip Report)
I had to go up to Oakland for a quick overnight business trip, so the airline I’d take wasn’t in question. Being…
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Putting Numbers to JetBlue’s Claims of Increased Competition With Spirit Acquisition
JetBlue has twisted itself in knots over the last couple months explaining why the Spirit acquisition makes sense for the airline, saying…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Southwest Credits No Longer Expire With Southwest Chief Marketing Officer Ryan Green!
Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We didn’t plan on having another guest this week, but when the…
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Cranky on the Web: JetBlue, Spirit, and Nothing Else
This was a local news kind of week, and that is always fun. With Frontier out, JetBlue likely to buy Spirit; higher…
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3 Links I Love: SpirBlue is Happening, Small Airports with Big Problems, Big Props in Molokai
This Week’s Featured Link JetBlue and Spirit to Create a National Low-Fare Challenger to the Dominant Big Four Airlines – JetBlue NewsroomThe…
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The Frontier/Spirit Merger is Dead… And Spirit’s Board Only Has One Good Option
Everyone has been waiting for the results of the Spirit vote on the Frontier merger for weeks now. After multiple delays, this…
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The Curious and Frightening Case of American Flight 300’s Near Accident
I find incident/accident investigations fascinating in general, but I rarely if ever cover them here. That being said, the National Transportation Safety…
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Air Canada and United Tighten Up Partnership with Transborder Joint Venture
It’s always been a weird dance between Air Canada and United. For two decades,the airlines have had a joint venture, but it…
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Cranky on the Web: My Most Hated Myth
The Myth of Best Day to Buy Cheap Flights | Expert Interview with Brett Snyder – VerifyThere is no myth that I…