Airports
-
3 Links I Love: Near Misses, Frontier Unhinged, Darwin Un-Etihaded, Norwegian Unprofitable
This week’s featured link: NTSB: Air Canada close-call at SFO was even worse than first reported – San Jose Mercury News Any…
-
Delta’s LAX Move Has Been Good for Everyone’s On Time Performance
When Delta moved from Terminals 5 and 6 over to Terminals 2 and 3 in Los Angeles, one of the touted benefits…
-
3 Links I Love: Airport Mismanagement in Virginia, A Strange Belief on Loyalty, No Golden Age of Travel
This week’s featured link: Records: Former Newport News airport execs spent big on travel – The Daily Press If you haven’t been…
-
The Cranky Flier Interview: Those Who Made the Delta Move at LAX Happen
As you saw on the blog last week, I was invited to spend the night with Delta to chronicle the airline’s move…
-
Up All Night With Delta During the Great LAX Terminal Shuffle
On Friday night, an army of orange and green vests gathered outside Delta’s makeshift command center sitting atop the surface parking lot…
-
Cranky on the Web: The LAX Terminal Shuffle
FOX 11 News In Depth: Big changes coming to LAX – Fox 11 Los Angeles I actually spent all of last night…
-
Belatedly Pondering Alaska’s Dallas Plans
I’m well aware that it’s been about three weeks since Alaska announced its plans for serving Dallas/Love Field, but I’ve been thinking…
-
Talking to Southwest’s CEO About Why He’s Bullish on Long Beach
Yep, it’s time for another Long Beach post. But this time, I’m only writing about it because Southwest CEO Gary Kelly was…
-
A Preview of Southwest’s New Security Checkpoint Opening Monday in Los Angeles
Anyone who has flown Southwest through Terminal 1 in Los Angeles over the last couple of years knows that it’s been pretty…
-
If You Thought the Alaska/Virgin America Merger Was Anti-Competitive, Take a Look at San Francisco
I can’t recall anyone outside of the federal government thinking that the Alaska/Virgin America merger was in any way anti-competitive, but all…
-
3 Links I Love: Boeing’s MoM Gets a Boost, JetBlue Feels Pain in Atlanta, More on the Port Authority Scandal
This week’s featured link: United Looks at Boeing’s ‘Paper Plane’ and Likes What It Sees – Bloomberg Bloomberg has been cranking out…
-
3 Links I Love: Another Defection From American to United, Frontier Trying to Fix Things, United’s New 777-300ER
This week’s featured link: Yet Another American Airlines Executive Leaves for United – Airways Word starting leaking out quickly on Wednesday. Andrew…