Brett
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Summer Schedule Buildup in Full Swing
It’s that time of year when the airlines start announcing changes for their summer schedules. I won’t mention all of them, but…
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Virgin Makes Us Wait for Six More Days
Virgin America has requested that the DOT give them an extension of six days until January 16 to file a response to…
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Why United Won the Right for More China Flights
The long awaited decision about who would win this year’s rights to fly to China came down today. United was awarded the…
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Northwest Says Aloha to the DC-10
DC-10 Retirement – 01-07-07 – 01 – 017 Originally uploaded by NWA Moments. Yesterday morning, Northwest flight 98 arrived in Minneapolis/St Paul…
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JetBlue Heads for San Francisco
San Francisco Airport (SFO) leaked (pdf) the news yesterday that a “major U.S. air carrier” would announce service to the airport today,…
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How Important is Inflight Entertainment?
Remember when inflight entertainment was just a projector showing movies at the front of the cabin? (If you’re on a United 747,…
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Adam Air – Still Looking
Remember that Adam Air plane crash in Indonesia last week? Well despite one false report, they unbelievably still haven’t found the plane’s…
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The LCC Round the World Challenge
All this talk about the launch of Air Asia X, the new long haul low cost carrier got me thinking. With the…
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Bye Bye Blogspot
I use Blogger to publish and host my blog, so that’s why the URL has been http://crankyflier.blogspot.com until now. Fortunately, Blogger has…
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Who the F*** is SkyValue?
In the second installment of my “Who the F*** is . . .” series, we look at SkyValue (Allegiant was the first).…
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Long Haul, Low Cost Air Asia X
It’s time for another fun filled airline makeover, boys and girls! Rumors had been flying all week that Virgin Atlantic, easyJet, and…
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Arizona Republic Interviews Doug Parker
Back on December 29, the Arizona Republic published an interview with Doug Parker. The interview was conducted by one of my favorite…