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How Traveling This Past Week Has Snowballed Into a Complete Mess
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It’s not uncommon for a big winter storm to mess with travel plans, but this past week can best be described as a convergence of suck. A ton of different things came together to create…
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I May Not Like American’s Livery But I Get Why It’s Staying
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We now know how American will paint its airplanes. Just over half of the 60 percent of American’s employees that voted chose to keep the current tail with the big, obnoxious flag on it. This…
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Cranky on the Web (December 30 – January 3)
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In the Trenches: Celebrating Our Success – Intuit Small Business Blog Cranky Concierge deals with a lot of unhappy people in tough situations, and that can be exhausting. So it’s important for us to take…
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Topic of the Week: Your Predictions for 2014
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Yes, I know. The topic of the week is a day early this week. Why? Because I’m trying to lay low and take a bit of a breather this week after a hectic December. I’m…
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2013 Flying Summary
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It’s for the year-end travel summary. This year saw a big jump in travel for me. I flew more more miles in 2013 than any year since 2005, the last time I actually worked for…
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Airlines We Lost in 2013
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Another year has come to a close, and with it, so have the lives of several airlines. There weren’t any spectacular shutdowns as we’ve seen in previous years, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t a…
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Cranky on the Web (December 23 – 27)
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Scrambling Toward Christmas with Sad Songs, Oscar Isaac, and Tight Flights – The Colin McEnroe Show I was on WNPR to talk about the New York Times article on decreasing personal space on airplanes. Southwest…
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Topic of the Week: Feel Good Friday
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It’s a light week with not much to discuss, so let’s just watch some of the warm-fuzzy holiday efforts from a couple airlines. You’ve probably already seen WestJet’s Christmas Miracle, but just in case you…
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Options Away Provides a Way to Guarantee a Fare Without Buying a Ticket
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It’s not often that I write about specific websites here on the blog, but Options Away really caught my eye. The idea is very simple. You can pay a small fee up front to lock…
