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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK: JetBlue Traverses the Country, Gol and Azul May Buddy Up
JetBlue Digs Deeper and Shorter Into Leisure This Summer Remember that weird time during the pandemic when every airline thought Traverse City…
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Breeze’s Entry Into New Haven Has Been a Bumpy One
It was November 2021 when Avelo struck gold. The airline went into the recently-abandoned New Haven Tweed airport along the southern Connecticut…
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Air Wisconsin Goes It Alone as American Ends Eagle Partnership
There are a handful of regional airlines that I’m always surprised to find still in business. There’s Mesa, of course, and yes,…
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Delta Makes a Spectacular, Amazing, Astounding Announcement About… Nothing
It is Consumer Electronics Show (CES) week in Las Vegas, so the tech world is abuzz with all kinds of chatter about…
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Announcing the 2025 Cranky Network Award Nominations
Now that the new year has begun, it is time to reveal the nominations for the upcoming 2025 Cranky Network Awards presented…
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American’s Terrible Paid Seat Policy Chooses What’s Easy Over What’s Right
It is somewhat remarkable to me just how often certain airlines default to the most customer-unfriendly way of doing business. Before I…
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Condor Quickly Remakes Its Summer Network
Welcome back from the holidays. It’s that awful first day when everyone is back working and nobody wants to be. So, let’s…
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Reviewing Your 2024 Predictions and Making Your 2025 Picks
Happy new year, everybody! Now that we are squeaking into 2025, it’s time to look at how many of your 2024 predictions…
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2024 Flying Summary
It’s time to look back at my year of flying, and it was a good one. I finally crossed an ocean again…
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Airlines We Lost 2024
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. That’s right, 2024 is nearly done, and as usual there were a…
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Mark Your Calendars: Cranky Dorkfest 2025 is September 13
Ho, ho, ho fellow airline dorks. As you gather with your family and plot out plans for next year… take a little…
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Alaska Optimizes Flying by Retiming A321s and Hubbing Portland
Alaska was busy working on integrating its Hawaiian fleet this past weekend. I should be mad that they dumped all these changes…