Airlines
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Frontier and Spirit Both March on Atlanta
With Spirit and Frontier coming together, everyone has focused on all the similarities… and to be fair, there are many. But the…
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WestJet Moves Into a New Business Once Again With Sunwing Acquisition
It may not have the blockbuster heft of a Frontier/Spirit merger, but last week WestJet announced it would acquire Sunwing north of…
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The World Gets Larger and That’s Not a Good Thing
For 100 years, aviation has made the world a smaller place. Within 2 days, people can be just about anywhere they want…
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Breeze Sets Its Sights On Hartford for A220 Flying
Nothing has been announced, but it won’t be long until Breeze finally releases its first A220-specific routes. Though I don’t usually like…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Airplane Livery!
Don’t forget to get your bids in by tonight for one of the 5 models available thanks to Boeing. To submit a…
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Avelo Sees If More Than Florida Can Work for New Haven
Avelo started in Burbank, and it has made all sorts of network tweaks there to find a path to success. I’m not…
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Alaska Takes a Stab at the Subscription Economy with California Flight Pass
Alex Corey, Alaska’s MD of Revenue Products & Strategy, told me yesterday that the airline had been developing the idea of entering…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Spirit and Frontier Merge!
Cranky Talk – Spirit and Frontier Merge! We had a whole plan for this week’s Cranky Talk, and then Frontier and Spirit…
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Cranky on the Web: The Frontier/Spirit Merger
What the Frontier-Spirit deal means for RDU, other mid-sized airports – Triangle Business JournalAny time there’s a merger, every town wants to…
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3 Links I Love: Finnair’s Nest, Turkish Recreates Pangea, Winter in Cape Town, PLAYing in New York
This Week’s Featured Link Finnair long-haul revamp: New business class and premium economy cabins on offer – PaxEx.aeroFinnair is putting a new…
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Frontier’s Quick Meltdown Recovery
Overshadowed by the Frontier/Spirit merger announcement was an operational meltdown at Frontier on Monday. The airline had to cancel more than a…
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Spirit and Frontier: Together At Last
The news broke early yesterday, and people couldn’t stop talking about it… Maury Gallagher is retiring as CEO of Allegiant! Oh wait,…