Code of Ethics

Ethics is a hot topic in the blogging world, so I’ve decided to put my code of ethics front and center. First I have included disclosures of any compensated relationships in the airline/travel industry. Then you will see details about my willingness to accept free or discounted products along with all offers, whether they have been accepted, and whether any blog posts were written about them. My goal is to be an open book here. You can always contact me with questions or comments at cf@crankyflier.com.

Disclosure of Current Compensated Relationships

• I currently have no financial holdings in any airlines
• I am not currently working with or having discussions about working with any airlines or airports

Historical Disclosures

• I was compensated with options to serve on the advisory council for Trippy.com, but the company has dissolved
• I was paid to write an occasional column for PlaneBusiness Banter from 2013 through 2015
• My role on the advisory council for Routehappy.com ended in June 2016
• I was paid to write a weekly column for the Intuit Small Business Center until July 2015
• I stopped writing for Conde Nast Traveler in 2014
• Airbus sponsored a series of posts during the week of November 11, 2013. My interaction was limited strictly to their marketing agency
• On July 30, 2013 I agreed to accept 75,000 TrueBlue points to participate on the JetBlue New Onboard Experience Advisory Board. This panel never succeeded and the points were never awarded
• Credit card links were removed in 2012 and no further compensation will be earned
• I stopped writing for CNN.com in 2012
• My contract to write the Headwinds blog for BNET (now part of CBS) ended in March 2011
• My consulting work for PASSUR Aerospace ended in August 2010.
• My short term social media consulting project for Long Beach Airport ended in August 2010
• My content reproduction agreement with BoardingArea.com ended in March 2010

Code of Ethics

For the purpose of this code, “free and/or discounted products and services” refers to anything above the cost of a meal offered to me for free or for a discount simply because of my status as a blogger

• When I write about free and/or discounted products and services, I will always disclose on this page who gave them to me, when they were given to me, and when I wrote about them. I will also include the discount amount offered in any post on the products/services.
• I will always write the truth about a product or service regardless of whether it is good or bad. I will never trade favorable press for free and/or discounted products and services.
• I will only accept free and/or discounted products and services if the people offering the product/service confirm that they have read this code of ethics and are willing to abide by the rules that have been set here.
• Just because I have been provided with free and/or discounted products and services doesn’t mean I will write about them. The only criteria for determining whether or not to write about a product is if it will make for a compelling post, good or bad.

List of Offered Free or Discounted Products/Services

The following is a full and complete list of trips/flights/boondoggles with a value of over $100 that have been offered to me along with whether they were accepted or not. This list does not include invitations to events unless a free or discounted product or service accompanied that invitation.

Company	Offer	Date	Accepted	Blogged
Sun Country	Media Day	10/1/2019	No	N/A
Hahn Air	Trip to Germany	9/18/2019	Yes	TBD
Embraer	E2 Flight in Florida	9/2/2019	No	N/A
Korean Air	Trip to Korea	8/7/2019	No	N/A
United Airlines	Media Day air and hotel	8/4/2019	Yes	TBD
Southwest Airlines	Halloween Party Judge	8/1/2019	No	N/A
American Airlines	Final MD-80 flight to Roswell	7/31/2019	No	N/A
Hawaiian Airlines	6 Neighbor Island Flights in One Day	7/3/2019	Yes	9/2/2019
Alaska Airlines	Seattle lounge opening	6/24/2019	No	N/A
TAP Air Portugal	SFO Inaugural Flight	5/2/2019	No	N/A
Southwest Airlines	Hawai’i Inaugural Flight	2/28/2019	No	N/A
Virgin Atlantic	A350 Reveal Event	2/25/2019	Yes But Had to Cancel	4/11/2019
Southwest	Flight to Southwest Rally Las Vegas	2/8/2019	Yes	2/21/2019
Alaska Airlines	Alaska upgraded Airbus event	1/28/2019	No	N/A
American	Annual leadership conference flights	1/23/2019	Yes	3/4/2019 3/11/2019 3/12/2019
Southwest	Flights for Herb Kelleher Memorial	1/14/2019	Yes	1/24/2019 2/05/2019
Virgin Atlantic	Biofuel Demo Flight	9/21/2018	Yes (taken by correspondent)	10/11/2018 10/18/2018 11/1/2018
Spirit	Orlando Media Tour	9/13/2018	No	N/A
British Airways	Celebration of 60 Years of Jet Service Over the Atlantic	8/31/2018	No	N/A
Hawaiian Airlines	Long Beach Inaugural Flight Invite	5/8/2018	Yes	TBD
Air Canada	Event in Toronto and Vancouver	4/5/2018	No	N/A
China Eastern	Trip to Bangkok	3/21/2018	No	N/A
American	Invite to Annual Leadership Conference	1/15/2018	Yes	02/27/2018
Korean Air	Invite to Incheon Terminal 2 Opening	12/13/2017	No	N/A
American	Invite to Fly Snowball Express	11/29/2017	No	N/A
Air Canada	Invite to Roll-Out of New Premium Experience	11/16/2017	No	N/A
United Airlines	Invite to Final 747 Flight	09/18/2017	Yes (for another writer)	11/14/2017
British Airways	Invite on 25th 787 Delivery Flight	09/06/2017	No	N/A
Delta Air Lines	Invite to Customer Experience Showcase 2017	08/29/2017	No	N/A
Southwest Airlines	Invite to 737 MAX Rollout	08/16/2017	No	N/A
American Airlines	Invite to Media Day	08/07/2017	No	N/A
TAP Portugal	Invite to Retro Livery Flight	06/26/2017	No	N/A
American Airlines	Invite to Flagship Dining Event	04/21/2017	No	N/A
Alaska Airlines	Milk Run from Anchorage to Seattle	04/08/2017	Yes	06/29/2017 07/31/2017 08/01/2017 08/03/2017 08/07/2017 08/08/2017 08/10/2017
Sabre	Invite to Airline Technology Exchange	04/05/2017	Yes	05/18/2017 06/05/2017
Delta Air Lines	Invite to media day	03/30/2017	No	N/A
Viva Air	Invite to inaugural Viva Peru flight	03/29/2017	TBD	TBD
British Airways	Flight to London for BAinvesting4U Launch	03/20/2017	No	N/A
Delta Air Lines	Invitation to Delta Grammy Party	01/27/2017	Yes	N/A
United Airlines	777-300ER Polaris Demo Flight	01/25/2017	No	N/A
American Airlines	Annual Leadership Conference	01/09/2017	Yes	02/07/2017
Grand Velas Riviera Maya	Wendy Perrin WOW List Summit	12/01/2016	Yes	01/17/2017 01/18/2017
Royal Air Maroc/The Moak Group	787 Delivery Event in Seattle	11/15/2016	No	N/A
Delta Air Lines	Havana Inaugural Flight	11/11/2016	No	N/A
Alaska Airlines	Flight to Merger Closing Event (if it happens)	11/10/2016	No	N/A
Alaska Airlines	Havana Inaugural Flight	11/10/2016	No	N/A
Southwest Airlines, VisitBurbank, San Jose Airport, Sacramento	9 Airports, 1 Day adventure where swag was given at every stop (mostly small things, but VisitBurbank did give a night at the Burbank Marriott along with theme park tickets	08/09/2016	Yes	09/01/2016 09/08/2016
Southwest Airlines	Flights to Seattle For Rollout of New Interior	05/31/2016	Yes	08/16/2016 08/22/2016
United Airlines	Flights to NYC For Media Event	05/20/2016	No	N/A
Wow Air Bristol Inaugural	Trip from Baltimore to Bristol, UK	04/21/2016	No	N/A
JetSuiteX Joyride Around LA	30 Minute Flight Around LA	04/13/2016	Yes but plane broke so never took flight	04/21/2016
Delta Media Day	Flights and hotel	03/18/2016	No	N/A
Allegiant Media Day	Flights and hotel	03/07/2016	Yes but got sick so didn’t go	N/A
American Airlines	Upgraded paid return flight from DFW to LAX for Salesforce.com speaking event	03/02/2016	Yes	03/15/2016
Expedia	Invite to Expedia Partner Conference (flights/hotel/transport covered)	11/10/2015	No	No
Qatar	Invite to 787 delivery ceremony at Boeing	10/1/2015	No	N/A
United	New First Class seat rollout	08/27/2015	No	N/A
Hawaiian	Global Media Day	6/29/2015	Yes	10/22/2015 11/3/2015
Frontier	21st Birthday Party Flight to Vegas	06/23/2015	No	N/A
JetBlue	Fly to NYC to meet with management	06/11/2015	No	N/A
United	Flight attendant training in Houston	06/10/2015	In progress	TBD
WestJet	Bombardier 500th Q400 Celebration	06/03/2015	No	N/A
Emirates Airlines	Inflight Preview of “Living in the Age of Airplanes”	3/23/2015	Yes (by Derek Pugh on behalf of Cranky)	04/21/2015
Alaska Airlines	Technology Demo Flight	03/19/2015	No	N/A
Icelandair	Northern Lights Flights	02/02/2015	No	N/A
American Airlines	Leadership Conference	01/19/2015	Yes	3/3/2015 3/9/2015
Etihad	787/A380 Launch Event in Abu Dhabi	11/26/2014	No	N/A
Etihad	787 Delivery Ceremony in Seattle	9/15/2014	No	N/A
Travelport	Ignite Conference (paid for hotel only)	8/12/2014	Yes	11/10/2014 11/17/2014
Southwest	Southwest Media Day	8/12/2014	Yes	9/15/2014 9/16/2014 9/18/2014
ANA	787 Flight from Seattle	6/18/2014	No	N/A
American Airlines	Leadership Conference	5/30/2014	Yes	6/19/2014 6/24/2014
Delta Air Lines	Inside Delta Blogger Experience	4/25/2014	No	N/A
Honeywell	International Media Day	4/24/2014	Yes	5/22/2014 5/29/2014 6/10/2014 8/19/2014
Hawaiian Airlines	Visit to Headquarters in Honolulu	3/27/2014	Yes	7/7/2014 7/8/2014 7/14/2014 7/15/2014 7/21/2014 7/22/2014
IATA	Annual General Meeting	3/24/2014	No	N/A
Silk Air	737 Delivery Ceremony in Seattle	1/20/2014	Yes	2/11/2014 2/13/2014 2/25/14
United Airlines	Visit to Reopening of Concourse E at SFO	1/18/2014	No	N/A
JetBlue Airways	Inaugural Wifi Flight	11/19/2013	No	N/A
United Airlines	Visit to Headquarters in Chicago	10/30/2013	Yes	12/12/2013 12/16/2013 12/17/2013 12/18/2013 12/19/2013
Turkish Airlines	Flight for SocialTrippin Event	10/25/2013	No	N/A
Qatar Airways	Flight for oneworld Entry Ceremony	10/7/2013	No	N/A
KLM	New Business Class Seat Trip New York – Amsterdam	9/6/2013	No	N/A
Air France	Trip to Paris for New Coach Upgrade Announcement	9/6/2013	No	N/A
Delta	Delta Shuttle LAX-SFO flight	8/22/2013	Yes	9/26/2013
British Airways	A380 Inaugural LAX to London	7/22/2013	No	N/A
Korean Air	All inclusive 72 hour trip to Korea	5/7/2013	Yes	6/10/2013 6/17/2013 6/25/2013 7/2/2013
British Airways	A380 delivery flight	6/10/2013	No	N/A
US Airways Media Day and Leadership Conference	Two roundtrips to Phoenix for US Airways events	3/12/2013	Yes	4/25/2013 4/29/2013 4/30/2013 5/6/2013 5/7/2013
Travelport and CAPA	Trip to Dublin for Travelport meetings and CAPA conference	3/12/2013	Yes	4/16/2013 4/18/2013 4/23/2013
American	LHR trip to experience new business class	3/5/2013	Yes	6/27/2013 7/11/2013
Air New Zealand	Inflight focus group	2/27/2013	No	N/A
Farelogix	Media Day air and hotel covered	1/2/2013	Yes	2/26/2013
British Airways	BA Catchup and The Who Concert	12/27/2012	Yes	None
Lufthansa	747-8 Media Trip to Frankfurt	12/11/2012	No	N/A
Qatar Airways	787 Inaugural to Doha	10/23/2012	No	N/A
Lenovo	Yoga loaned for 10 days	10/18/2012	Yes	12/12/12
LAN	787 Inaugural	08/13/2012	Uninvited due to space limitations	N/A
Southwest	Trip to Oshkosh for AirVenture	06/28/2012	No	N/A
British Airways	Trip to London for Olympics	06/20/2012	Yes	08/07/2012 08/09/2012
Southwest	Trip to Cabo on inaugural flight from Orange County	05/16/2012	No	N/A
Allegiant Air	Paid speaking engagement at airports conference	03/29/2012	Yes	05/16/2012
Southwest	737-800 Inaugural	03/27/2012	No	N/A
Air France	FlyerTalk event in Paris	03/27/2012	No	N/A
US Airways	Flights to Phoenix for Media Day	03/07/2012	Yes	03/26/2012 03/28/2012
Alaska	Logo baby hoodie and onesie for my son	02/14/2012	Yes	N/A
Alaska, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest	Giveaways for Cranky 5 Year Anniversary	08/15/2011	Yes	08/16/2011
Emirates	Flight to Dubai	07/14/2011	Yes	11/09/2011 11/16/2011 11/23/2011
TAAG Angola	777 Delivery Ceremony	06/03/2011	No	N/A
American Airlines	737 Delivery Flight	05/17/2011	No	N/A
Airline Passenger Experience Expo	Flights and Hotel for annual convention in Seattle	04/15/2011	Yes	09/13/2011 09/19/2011 09/20/2011
Icelandair	Media trip to Iceland	03/30/2011	No	N/A
Lufthansa	Trip to Frankfurt for A380 back to SFO	03/25/2011	Yes	05/12/2011 05/17/2011
US Airways	Flights to Phoenix for Media Day	02/28/2011	No	No
American Bar Association Forum on Air & Space Law	Flight for speaking engagement on US Airways	01/04/2011	Yes	02/28/2011 03/01/2011
Air New Zealand	Flight to Seattle and 777 Delivery Flight	12/07/2010	No	01/04/2011
British Airways	Flight to London for BA Visit	12/02/2010	Yes	01/20/2011 01/24/2011 01/25/2011 03/08/2011
Cathay Pacific	Flight to Hong Kong for New Seat Event	10/27/2010	No	N/A
Southwest	Flights and Hotels at Southwest Media Day	10/14/2010	Yes	10/29/2010 11/1/2010 11/2/2010 11/3/2010
Delta	Flights to Atlanta for Headquarters Visit and Some Goodies from the Delta Museum	08/25/2010	Yes	9/1/2010 9/2/2010 9/3/2010 9/13/2010 9/16/2010 9/20/2010 9/27/2010 10/1/2010
Southwest	Flight to Chicago and then Oshkosh	07/14/2010	No	N/A
LAN	Trip to Peru for SFO Launch	05/10/2010	No	N/A
US Airways	Flight to Phoenix for Media Day	03/02/2010	Yes	04/29/2010 04/30/2010 05/07/2010
Denver International Airport	Transportation and Hotel provided for State of DIA panel participation	01/28/2010	Yes	03/04/2010 03/19/2010
Swiss	Trip to Zurich for SFO Launch	02/23/2010	No	N/A
Air New Zealand	Trip to Auckland for media event	01/14/2010	Yes	01/25/2010 01/26/2010 02/01/2010
Milwaukee Airport	Access to Midwest Best Care Club	12/08/2009	Yes	12/29/2009
Sony	Two week loan of Vaio P Series laptop	11/04/2009	Yes	12/08/2009
United Airlines	Last United 737 flight (to SFO) and return	10/27/2009	Yes	10/29/2009
JetSuite	Private jet from Long Beach to Orange County	10/21/2009	Yes	11/2/2009
Row 44	Ride on wifi-equipped Grumman Albatross	08/25/2009	Yes	8/25/2009 8/26/2009
British Airways	Trip on new London/City to JFK service	05/06/2009	No	N/A
Delta Air Lines	Gift basket onboard for my brother’s engagement	06/30/2009	Yes	07/01/2009
Star Alliance	Free Round the World trip	06/15/2009	No	N/A
Southwest Airlines	Transportation from LAX to Dallas and overnight stay – winner schedule planning competition	03/06/2009	Yes	04/03/2009
Nintendo	Nintendo DS and Game	02/12/2009	Yes	04/03/2009
British Airways	Free trip on OpenSkies and back	02/05/2009	No	N/A
British Airways	Free trip to opening of London/Heathrow Terminal 5	12/27/2008	No	N/A
Pearl Resorts	Discounted hotel stays in French Polynesia	07/24/2008	Yes	04/30/2009 05/01/2009
Emirates Airlines	VIP flight to nowhere on A380	07/09/2008	Yes	08/07/2008 08/08/2008
Qantas/Airbus	Flight to nowhere on A380	11/27/2007	Yes	11/30/2007
ExpressJet	Free transportation for two from Ontario to Tucson	05/11/2007	Yes	05/14/2007
MAXjet	Free roundtrip from LAX to London	05/10/2007	No	N/A
ExpressJet/LAWA	Dinner with ExpressJet executives	03/12/2007	Yes	03/16/2007