Miscellaneous
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Reviewing Your 2024 Predictions and Making Your 2025 Picks
Happy new year, everybody! Now that we are squeaking into 2025, it’s time to look at how many of your 2024 predictions…
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2024 Flying Summary
It’s time to look back at my year of flying, and it was a good one. I finally crossed an ocean again…
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Join Me and Other AvGeeks On Bluesky
It’s now been over a month since I stopped regularly posting on X/Twitter, and I’m now feeling confident enough in that decision…
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Czech Airlines is Not OK as It Fades Away
There aren’t all that many airlines that have been around for over 100 years, and now, that exclusive club has lost a…
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Play Airlines Plans to Play in the Sand Instead of the States
Things don’t appear to be going all that well for Iceland-based Play Airlines, the heir to the WOW Air legacy. With results…
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Honoring the Flight Crews That Died 23 Years Ago Today
Some years, this just sneaks up on me, and this is one of those years. It’s September 11, and that means today…
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The Quiet Genius of ICAO Airport Codes
I usually have a couple of these kinds of evergreen posts ready to go in case I’m not able to finish a…
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Reviewing Your 2023 Predictions and Making Your 2024 Picks
It’s the most wonderul time of the year… when we get to go over all your predictions from last year and see…
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2023 Flying Summary
I’m done for the year, so might as well get this party started. Another year, another weird-looking map. The multiple short haul trips are…
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Break Time
Cranky Concierge is gathering this weekend for company meetings, and I won’t be back until early next week. To make life easier,…
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Honoring the Flight Crews That Died 22 Years Ago Today
It’s a shift that can give you whiplash. Saturday was Cranky Dorkfest where hundreds of us gathered, ate burgers, watched airplanes, and…
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2022 Flying Summary
This map looks weird. Any year without Hawai’i is a sad one. Of course, this was primarily due to me doing the…