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American’s Terrible Paid Seat Policy Chooses What’s Easy Over What’s Right
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It is somewhat remarkable to me just how often certain airlines default to the most customer-unfriendly way of doing business. Before I even say who I’m talking about, you probably just assume it’s American. And…
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Condor Quickly Remakes Its Summer Network
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Welcome back from the holidays. It’s that awful first day when everyone is back working and nobody wants to be. So, let’s pretend we’re all still on vacation by talking about a holiday-focused airline. Today,…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK: Silver’s Finances are Anything but Golden, BA Goes Revenue-Based
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Silver Files for Chapter 11 As the minutes counted down to the end of 2024 earlier this week, the number of Florida-based airlines whose name begins with “S” that filed for bankruptcy protection during the…
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Reviewing Your 2024 Predictions and Making Your 2025 Picks
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Happy new year, everybody! Now that we are squeaking into 2025, it’s time to look at how many of your 2024 predictions came true and then think about what this coming year will bring. As…
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2024 Flying Summary
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It’s time to look back at my year of flying, and it was a good one. I finally crossed an ocean again for the first time in awhile. The biggest shame of the year is…
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Airlines We Lost 2024
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. That’s right, 2024 is nearly done, and as usual there were a slew of airlines that did not make it to see the ball drop…
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Mark Your Calendars: Cranky Dorkfest 2025 is September 13
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Ho, ho, ho fellow airline dorks. As you gather with your family and plot out plans for next year… take a little time to mark your calendars, because we have a date… Cranky Dorkfest 2025…
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Alaska Optimizes Flying by Retiming A321s and Hubbing Portland
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Alaska was busy working on integrating its Hawaiian fleet this past weekend. I should be mad that they dumped all these changes right before the holidays, but who can stay mad at Chester? After all,…
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The Air Show’s Last Episode of the Year + Holiday Posting Schedule
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It’s that time of the year when everything grinds to a halt. That means there’s not a lot of news, but there are still some year-end posts ahead. In the meantime, curious to hear some…
