Cranky Weekly Review
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Frontier Shrinks, AA’s FAs Want Change
Frontier Reduces Fleet, Releases Earnings In a busy week for Frontier Airlines, the carrier released its Q4 and 2025 earnings, and also…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: United Adds ORD Gates, Elliott Continues to Get Paid
United Buys Spirit’s Final Two Gates at Chicago/ORD Weeks after selling/assigning gates to American, Spirit found itself to be an equal opportunity…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Earnings Roll In, United Launches the Next Attack
AA’s Close to 2025 Could Have Been Worse, but Not by Much American’s Q4 and 2025 earnings were released this week and…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: American Continues Quest for Chicago, United’s Very Profitable Year
American Takes Direct Aim at United One day after United CEO Scott Kirby said his airline will match any growth by American…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Allegiant Shifts Focus from Sunseeker to Sun Country, Delta’s 2025 Was Cash Friendly
Two Leisure Airlines Walk Into a Merger Remember mad libs? This is the airline merger version of that, as Allegiant and Sun…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Alaska Adds, Avelo Subtracts
Alaska Orders All the Airplanes Alaska Airlines placed the largest aircraft order in its history, agreeing to terms with Boeing, its Seattle…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Frontier, Delta See Leadership Changes
Frontier Abruptly Makes CEO Change Frontier Airlines announced Monday it was making a change at the top, replacing CEO Barry Biffle with…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: AA Goes Holiday Shopping, JetBlue Enters its Lounge Era
American Buys Two ORD Gates from the Clearance Rack American Airlines bought two gates from Spirit at Chicago/ORD as Spirit continues to…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: TSA, AA Want Your Money
When TSA Stops Being Polite and Starts Getting REAL The FAA, DOT, and TSA finally implemented their REAL ID requirements in May…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Europe Gets the (Jet)Blues, Allegiant Adds
JetBlue Adds Two to Europe JetBlue Airways announced two new European destinations on Wednesday, adding service from Boston to both Barcelona and…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: The Shutdown is Shut Down, When a Window Seat Doesn’t Require a Window
Shutdown Ends, (Hopefully) Bringing Our Long, ATC National Nightmare to an End One week after we posted in this space about DOT-mandated…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Capacity Restrictions, Spirit Shrinks
Busiest Airports in U.S. to Face Capacity Restrictions The FAA has begun a drawdown of capacity at the nation’s busiest airports today…