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Reviewing Your 2022 Predictions and Making Your 2023 Picks
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It’s been a lot of fun reading through predictions this year. It’s the first time in awhile we’ve started looking beyond COVID, at least a little. And this is no small feat since you wrote…
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Cranky Weekly Review: United Needs a New Pilot Boss, Boeing’s About to Get Lucky, More
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Publishing Note: We’ll be taking some time off during the holidays, so we are pre-scheduling some posts and going quieter than usual. Any comments that are moderated will take longer to approve, and we won’t…
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How the American and Mesa Relationship Reached Its Rocky Conclusion
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The smart bet would have been on American and Mesa terminating their relationship multiple times over the past several years, but time and time again, the pact endured. That streak ended last weekend when it…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Why is Seat Pitch a Terrible Metric for Legroom?
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. I hate seat pitch with a passion. Back in the day, it was a reasonable proxy for legroom, but now it is not. Seat construction…
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American Ends Its Regional Partnership with Mesa, United Swoops In to Complete the Pilot Circle of Life
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The long-troubled relationship between American and its regional partner Mesa has finally reached its conclusion. According to Cirium data and confirmed through an internal memo, Mesa’s last day operating as American Eagle will be April…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: United Dreams Big, AA AAdjusts, and More
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United Dreams Up Large Aircraft Order United Airlines announced an order of 200 aircraft from Boeing earlier this week, split between 100 B787 Dreamliners and 100 B737 MAX aircraft. With this large order for Boeing…
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Boom’s New Engine Plan Is Ambitious… at Best
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Boom’s Overture supersonic airplane has been in development for a very long time. And while the company has kept a wildly unrealistic very optimistic timetable — expecting entry into service by the end of the…
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The Cranky Network Awards Are Only 10 Weeks Away and We Need Your Nominations
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The 2023 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is only 10 weeks away, and it’s time to start getting excited. (This, of course, assumes you weren’t already excited, which we find…
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United Orders 100 Boeing 787s and Throws in 100 737 MAXs for Fun
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The worst kept secret in recent memory is now official. Today, United announced it is ordering 100 Boeing 787s, adding options for 100 more, converting 44 Boeing 737 MAX options into orders, and adding another…
