Brett
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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…
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Frontier Blames Leisure Market Capacity Growth for Its Revenue Problems
Frontier announced its Q3 earnings last week, and while it wasn’t nearly as bad as Spirit, Frontier did not do well. The…