Airlines
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Air Jamaica’s Death Spiral Completes on April 12
It seems like just yesterday that I named Air Jamaica the saddest airline ever. It looks like that title will be short-lived.…
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Horizon Air CEO Weighs In On Whether Wholly-Owned Regionals are Safer
I wasn’t planning on revisiting regional airline safety again this quickly, but then I received an email in my inbox this weekend…
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Allegiant Buys ex-Thomson 757s for Hawai’i Flying, I’m Looking at Long Beach
The long-discussed rumors have finally come true. Allegiant, long loyal to the MD-80, is branching out. Starting later this year, they’ll start…
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Cranky on the Web (March 1 – 5)
Samoa and Arkansas Win Federal Air Travel Subsidies – BNET The winners of the Small Community Air Service Development Program grants are…
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Are Wholly-Owned Regionals Safer? (Ask Cranky)
The discussion about how safe regionals are has been top of mind since the Colgan Air crash in Buffalo last year. A…
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Cranky on the Web (February 22 – 26)
First Class is Disappearing in Name Only – BNET Qantas is the latest to reduce First Class onboard, but it’s not really…
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How Frontier Got Me to Pay More for a Connecting Flight Than a Nonstop
I’ve long sung the praises of Air Canada’s efforts to create fare product categories, but really, I’ve never gone through the purchase…
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Only Two Airlines Left Flying a Douglas Widebody Commercially
This week Finnair Western, American, United, and even Delta (when they briefly operated the DC-10s they inherited from Western) to Hawai’i. I…
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Branson Airport Wants More Flights, Builds Own Airline
Long-time readers of the blog know that I’ve been following the development of Branson airport with interest. I even took a tour…
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Entire European Continent Goes on Strike
Ah, spring. The days become longer, the temps get warmer, and, apparently, it’s a great time for airline strikes. Lufthansa pilots just…
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Cranky on the Web (February 16 – 19)
too fat to fly? know before you go – antibride Another day, another fat person is angry that they were bumped for…