Airlines
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Dave Flew Spirit!
Cranky Talk – Dave Flew Spirit! People love reading trip reports, but do they love listening to them? We are about to…
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Cranky on the Web: How Oil Affects Fares
How rising fuel and strong demand could affect airfares – Travel WeeklyI went on The Folo podcast by Travel Weekly to talk…
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Southwest’s New “Wanna Get Away Plus” Fare Caps a Long Shift in the Airline’s Fare Structure
Southwest has been teasing us for a little while now with promises of a new fare family to fit between its lowest…
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A Look at the Growth of ULCCs in Maps
Some days, I like to sit around and dream up the kind of data I can pull from Cirium. I’m only slightly…
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Lufthansa Plans Another End Run Around Labor With New Regional Subsidiary
Over the last several years, Lufthansa Group has felt like a creation by Dr Frankenstein — pronounced FRONK-en-steen, of course. It has…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Russia Invades Ukraine
Cranky Talk – Russia Invades Ukraine We did things a bit different this week. We started recording last week, and then we…
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3 Links I Love: Russia Steals Airplanes, Sun Country Quality, Avelo Adds Two, ANA Confusion
This Week’s Featured Link Owners Fear Planes ‘Are Gone Forever’ After Russia Shields Them From Seizure – BloombergIt is not a great…
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Breeze Reveals Its First A220 Routes, and I Was Wrong
Last week I built up the case for Breeze’s presumed use of the A220 on long-haul from Hartford. The first routes are…
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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…