Airlines
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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…
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United May Not Be Prosecuted for Bribery Scandal, But It Did Have to Release All the Details
Remember that whole bribery saga that led to United CEO Jeff Smisek losing his job last year? Well, there is now a…