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Reviewing Your 2023 Predictions and Making Your 2024 Picks
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It’s the most wonderul time of the year… when we get to go over all your predictions from last year and see how you did. Of course, we need to remember that when you all wrote…
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Cranky on the Web: Southwest’s Customer of Size Policy
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No, Southwest Airlines’ ‘customer of size’ policy isn’t new – VerifyThis was a weird one that came out of left field. Why was everyone freaking out over a policy that’s been around for awhile? I have no…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Good News for Southwest, Bad News for Southwest, Alaska Raises its Baggage Fee
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Good News: Southwest Finds Labor Peace in the Cockpit Southwest Airlines and its pilots’ union finally have come to a preliminary agreement, ending several months of back-and-forth negotiations between the two and increasingly frequent threats…
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2023 Flying Summary
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I’m done for the year, so might as well get this party started. Another year, another weird-looking map. The multiple short haul trips are somewhat obscured by the Atlanta and Kahului runs. Miles: 15,721 (13,167 last year)Segments:…
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Hawaiian’s Five-Year Downhill Slide Led it Right Into Alaska’s Arms
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Alaska’s decision to buy Hawaiian Airlines and save it from a bankruptcy filing — or worse — was not something that happened overnight. Over the last five years, Hawaiian has gone through some of the most…
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With American Freeing Up Space, Delta Makes a Different Kind of Move on Austin
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Delta has called Austin a “focus city” for years now, but it doesn’t really have much to show for it. That appears to be changing as Delta has announced plans to grow its presence by 20…
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Cranky on the Web: Shipping Luggage + Holiday Travel
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Is shipping luggage better than checking bags? We tried it 4 ways. – Washington PostThe WaPo team put shipping to the test, and came out with good results all around. So is it worth it? For…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Delta Says “Howdy, Partner,” Alaska Updates Mileage Plan
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Delta’s Texas-Sized Growth in Austin American probably shouldn’t lock the door on its way out of Austin because Delta is sneaking in to fill in a bit of the void left when AA announced its…
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American Has a Lot Fewer Widebodies Than It Used To… And It Recently Postponed Getting More
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Reading through financial filings can be a tedious task. American’s 10-Q for the third quarter of 2023 clocks in at 211 pages, and most of that is only of interest to the finance types. But there was…
