Brett
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JetBlue Runs Into Latin America Troubles
The first quarter was a terrible one for JetBlue. On the one hand, it looks like the airline was using this as…
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A Look at the Other Ocean: United Over the Atlantic
I wrote yesterday about how United had some real struggles filling seats in its Pacific network around the holiday season. But the…
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United Struggles to Fill All Those Seats Down Under
United made a huge push into the Pacific this winter, and the numbers are somewhat staggering. With so many seats flooding the…
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Cranky on the Web: American’s Preferred, Frontier’s Quick Change, Earnings Begin
Some American Airlines Flyers Won’t Earn Miles for Flights Starting Next Month – Fodor’sThe deadline is fast approaching for American to decide…
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The Wild Fight Over San Francisco
Regular readers know that the currently-named Metropolitan Oakland International Airport is a sponsor of the Friday Cranky Weekly Review. It also was…
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Provo is American’s Future
American has decided to add a new dot to its route map. The winner is… Provo, Utah. This might sound like it’s…
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A Tale of Two Cities: Expanding on Last Week’s The Air Show Podcast
Last week on The Air Show podcast, Jon Ostrower, Brian Sumers, and I dove head first into the two northern corners of…
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American’s Revenue Performance Sinks
Cirium recently loaded the Department of Transportation’s DB1B data for Q4 2023, and I eagerly dove in to look for trends. What…
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Spirit Airlines Halts Growth Plans and Things Could Get Uglier
If you happen to be around the Fort Lauderdale airport and hear a grinding sound, don’t worry. It’s not an airplane’s mechanical…
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United Postpones Start of Faro, Cebu Due to FAA Restrictions
Rumors had been swirling, but on March 22, United’s VP of Corporate Safety Sasha Johnson put out an internal memo explaining that…
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Cranky on the Web: Travel Again, Variable Bag Fees, Higher Fares, Sexiness
Travel Again Podcast (Episode 2) with Mike McCormick and Ed SilverMike and Ed asked me to come on to talk about a…
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Southwest Inches Closer to Flying Redeyes
This is a post that probably could have been written a decade ago. After all, the idea that Southwest would eventually start…