Airlines
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Analyzing Delta’s 777 Retirement Plan
On the heels of announcing the retirement of its MD-88 and MD-90 fleet on June 2, Delta has now announced that its…
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3 Links I Love: A 5 Year Recovery, Mitsubishi Hurting, Ryanair Denies Airbus
This week’s featured link COVID-19 Outlook for air travel in the next 5 years – IATAThis presentation has all kinds of interesting…
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Delta, United Schedule Half as Much Flying as American in June
Over the weekend, Delta and United filed their June schedules, and again, I dove into Diio by Cirium data to see how…
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United’s Short-Sighted Efforts to Preserve Cash at All Costs
Of all airlines, United has by far had the most dire predictions for the arc of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Scott Kirby…
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Cranky on the Web: Recovery Thoughts, Frontier’s Middle Seat, Air Canada’s Refund Refusal, Change Fees
I sat down with Courtney Miller for a 35 minute discussion that ranged from Hawaii’s uniqueness to through on the recovery. Come…
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3 Links I Love: Emirates on COVID, Alitalia Being Alitalia, The Queen Flies High Again
This Week’s Featured Link Emirates’ Tim Clark: Coronavirus is a black swan event for the airline industry – The NationalI’m a sucker…
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American’s June Domestic Schedule Sees Modest Growth, Texas Cuts
I’ve analyzed May schedules to death over the last couple of weeks, so now it’s time to move on to June. My…
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Norwegian Likely to Live to See Another Day… Which May Not Be Until Next Year
As most everyone knows, Norwegian had been in bad shape long before this coronavirus crisis began. Things have naturally only gone downhill…
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Cranky on the Web: Flying In the Age of COVID, United’s Future
After coronavirus: Your next flight may look like this – Los Angeles TimesFrom the title, this mean seem like a look at…
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Beware the Class Action Lawsuit
With airlines and online travel agents changing and, at times, seemingly making up random rules to prevent refunds, it’s no surprise to…
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A Look at United’s Spartan May Schedule
I’ve already looked at how American, Delta, and Southwest scheduled themselves in May, and now it’s time to round this out by…
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Flying Across the Country On an Empty Airplane (Guest Trip Report)
Those of you who have subscribed to the Cranky Coronavirus Daily Update are familiar with Andrew’s moment of levity. (If not, you…