Cranky Weekly Review
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Earnings Week, Spirit Looks to D.C. for Help
Mixed Bag for United It was a good news/bad news thing for United as the carrier beat Wall Street expectations during Q1,…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit Possibly on Life Support, AA + UA = ??
Spirit on the Brink? Time is a flat circle. Sometimes Spirit is filing for bankruptcy. Sometimes it’s getting a plan approved to…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Delta’s Earnings, Cape Air’s New Air Conditioning Trial
Delta Leads off Q1 Earnings Delta led off Q1 earnings season this week, posting operating revenue just shy of $16 billion, with…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: United Gets More Basic, Delta Improves Connectivity
This week on The Air Show, we zoom out. What is oil doing to airlines in other parts of the world? It’s…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: United’s Media Day Frenzy, JetBlue Rumors Abound
United Shows Off Its New Toys at Media Day United Airlines held a media day this week, and it rolled out its…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit Has a Plan, Denver Has No Power
Spirit Files Bankruptcy Plan Spirit filed its restructuring and reorganization plan with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Southwest Leaves Two, Spirit Ends Pilot Furloughs
Southwest to End IAD and ORD Service Plot twist: We’ve got an airline actually ending service to Chicago/ORD, bucking the current trends.…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Gulf Carriers Slowly Resume, AA and UA get a Referee
Middle Eastern Carriers Resume Limited Ops Following a week of uncertainty amidst conflict in and around Iran, Emirates and Etihad both began…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit’s Demise Put on Hold, AA Scores a Win in Court
If at First You Don’t Succeed…Spirit Nears Bankruptcy Exit (Again) Our long, yellow-painted, BuzzBallz-loving, ultra-low cost national nightmare just might be over…for…
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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…