Recent Articles
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Counterpoint: Spirit Torches JetBlue Offer
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Last week, I expressed my confusion at Spirit rejecting JetBlue’s offer, which seemed to be a clearly better outcome for shareholders than the offer from…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – What is the Point of a Travel Agent?
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Cranky Talk – What is the Point of a Travel Agent? We told you we were going to get to your listener-suggested topics. It just…
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3 Links I Love: Ops are Hard, Porg Party, Viva Avianca, LAX Tower
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This Week’s Featured Link Travel chaos returns as Alaska Airlines blames … the calendar? – Seattle TimesAnother month, another mess. Will it ever end? Maybe…
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Flying The Oakland California Corridor Challenge: SNA-OAK-SNA on JSX and Spirit (Trip Report)
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And now, it’s time for the final installment of the Oakland California Corridor Challenge. By the time the final day rolled around, I was completely…
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Spirit’s Questionable Move to Shun JetBlue for Frontier
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I’ve said it here before; I do not get this JetBlue/Spirit merger plan. That, however, is completely irrelevant when it comes to saying whether Spirit…
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No Post Today
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If I don’t post on the scheduled Monday/Tuesday/Thursday days as normal, I’ll definitely hear about it from some of you wondering why. So, let’s head…
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3 Links I Love: Paying to Board, Starlink Lives, Pan Am Tempelhof
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This Week’s Featured Link Delta, facing a union drive, says it will start paying flight attendants during boarding – CNBCIt’s a brilliant move by Delta…
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Flying The Oakland California Corridor Challenge: ONT-OAK-BUR-OAK-LGB-OAK-SNA (Trip Report)
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Are you tired yet? Because I’m tired, and I had only done 4 flights on this adventure on the first day. Day 2 was our…
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What Kind of Insurance Do You Need While Traveling? (Sponsored)
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Much has changed since the dawn of the pandemic, and many of those changes have started to revert back to normal as we’ve begun to…
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Just How Bad Is It in Newark?
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Subscribers of Cranky Daily know that we like to poke fun at Newark for being, well, Newark… but today this is a more substantive issue.…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – The Oakland California Corridor Challenge
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Cranky Talk – The Oakland California Corridor Challenge I know I owe you a couple more days’ worth of trip reports, and those will be…
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Cranky on the Web: Impact of Mask Mandate’s End on Travel Demand
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The Cranky Flier: Ditching mask mandates won’t affect air travel’s COVID recovery – KJZZ The ShowI really don’t think the end of the mask mandate…