Airlines
-
Mexicana’s Delayed Launch Plan Comes Into Focus, and The News is Not Good
The new Mexicana — a brand purchased by the Mexican government to be run as a military airline — was hoping to…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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…
-
As the Merger Trial Begins, JetBlue Watches Spirit Falter
This week marks the beginning of the trial in the Department of Justice’s lawsuit to block JetBlue from buying Spirit. After the…
-
SAS Wisely Ditches Star Alliance and Realigns with Air France-KLM
The news broke early this month that SAS had a bankruptcy exit plan that would reshape the airline’s network and partner strategy.…
-
When Hawaiian Falters, Southwest Gets Me Home (Trip Report)
I left off last week with Hawaiian canceling my flight home from Kahului, and the reaccommodation options weren’t good. Fortunately for me,…