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Breeze Blows Into Some Crowded Markets
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Remember to watch the Cranky Network Awards TONIGHT at 7:30pm MT. Streaming live at this link. Since Breeze began, it has focused its aircraft on primarily flying routes that have no or very limited competition.…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Southwest Goes to Washington
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, direct, or wherever you get your podcasts. Southwest COO Andrew Watterson went to Washington to get grilled by senators over the airline’s holiday failures. I’d definitely put that at the top…
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Watch the Cranky Network Awards, Streaming Live This Thursday
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Cranky Network Awards week has arrived, and we are getting excited to dole out the trophies for the best in airline network planning in the US and Canada. We will be streaming live this year…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: JetBlue Takes on the EU, a Breeze is Blowing, and More…
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JetBlue Looks to go Dutch, Government Leaves it Feeling Blue JetBlue Airways is claiming the Dutch government is in violation of the open-skies agreement between the United States and the EU after rejecting JetBlue’s multiple…
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The Future of Regional Jets Dims as Mitsubishi Walks Away
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The writing had been on the wall for years now, but only last week did Mitsubishi make it official. It is done trying to build its own regional jet — a category I consider to…
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Only A Third of United’s Schedule is Accurate Today (A Breakdown)
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I’ve seen a handful of stories lately on the long-true fact that airlines sell schedules they don’t actually ever plan on flying. It was worse during the pandemic when schedules changed frequently… and up to…
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JetSMART Looks to Expand By Snatching Viva Away From Avianca
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Chile-based JetSMART has talked a good game for awhile now. It has wanted to grow throughout South America, and it has effectively promised as much to its US partner, American. It has used a mix…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland International Airport: February 10, 2023
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FedEx, Southwest Near-Miss Under Investigation Both the FAA and NTSB are investigating a near-calamitous incident in Austin last Saturday when a FedEx B767 and Southwest B737-700 came within 100 feet vertically of each other. The…
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Picking Apart January’s Operational Performance
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There’s been a whole lot of talk around January’s operational performance. Heck, United even decided to put out a Super Bowl ad digging at Southwest about it in Denver. I decided to cuddle up with…
