Airlines
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Delta Begins to Further Dismantle Its Tokyo/Narita Hub
Yesterday Delta posted a new item on its News Hub entitled “Q&A with APAC SVP: Delta remains committed to Asia despite Haneda…
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9 Airports, 1 Day: How to Follow Along Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the big day. Assuming everything runs on time, I’ll take 8 Southwest flights touching 9 airports, all within the State…
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3 Links I Love: Why Southwest Says Its IT Failed, Calls for Southwest CEO’s Head, Talking Alaska-Virgin America
This week’s featured link: Southwest CEO: Router failure that grounded flights equated to ‘once-in-a-thousand-year flood’ – Dallas Morning News Something tells me…
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Allegiant’s Transformation Leads to a New Aircraft Order
I’ve always talked about Allegiant as an airline that loves buying cheap, older aircraft, so was I surprised when the airline announced…
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Spirit Does Its Best AirTran Impersonation
When Bob Fornaro took over as President and CEO of Spirit earlier this year, we knew there would be changes to the…
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3 Links I Love: Middle East Fight Continues, Qatar Goes Italian, Lumexis Goodbye
This week’s featured link: The Middle Carrier Fight Isn’t Dead – Twitter If you read only BoardingArea blogs, you might think that…
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My First Southwest Flight from Long Beach (Trip Report)
This wasn’t supposed to be this way. I had to be up in Sonoma for a family event, and initially, I thought…
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Celebrate 10 Cranky Years with an Insane Day of Flying on Southwest
On August 15, 2006, I published “Welcome From the Cranky Flier,” my very first post. Here we are, 10 years and nearly…
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Long Beach May Lose in the Brewing Southwest vs JetBlue War
It’s amazing how much news such a little airport like Long Beach can generate. Now of course, since I live in the…
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Cranky on the Web: More on Southwest’s Tech Failure
Southwest still delaying, canceling flights after technology outage – Houston Chronicle As Southwest continues to struggle to pull itself together again after…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest’s Inexcusable IT Meltdown, Why Concorde Failed, Boeing 100
Hope you like videos, because this week is full of them. This week’s featured link: Live from the Listening Center discussing recovery…
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DOT Throws Delta a Japanese Bone
It’s here! It’s here! Maybe I need to tone it down a notch, but the tentative decision on which airlines will get…