Recent Articles
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: United Pays its FAs, Delta Dives Into a Crowd
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United Posts Nearly $1B Profit, Quietly Hands $561M to Keep Flight Attendants from Revolting United Airlines had a decent Q2 by normal standards — $973…
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When Avelo Walks Away, Breeze Steps Right In
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Earlier this week, Avelo announced that it would be fully abandoning its West Coast network. With the airline packing up and heading east, the question…
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The First Quarter Was Bad for Many, But None Were Hit as Hard as Avelo
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While I was gone on vacation, the first quarter DB1B data came out from government, so we can finally get a more granular look at…
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More Flights, Smaller Planes: A Deeper Look at How Transcon Has Evolved
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When I took a look at how the interisland market has evolved in Hawaiʻi, several of you wanted to see a similar peek at the…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Delta Leads Earnings, Shoes Stay On Now
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And we’re back! Hope you didn’t miss us too much while we were on vacation this week. We’re now back to the regular posting schedule.…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Putting the Bay Back in Oakland, Silver Might be Gold Again
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We’re coming to you one day early this week, because nobody wants to work on Independence Day. I mean, come on. We have hot dogs…
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Iberia’s Remarkable Transformation Into a Profitable Growth Engine
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Flash back about 15 years, and Iberia was a joke. It was busy flying a fleet of gas-guzzling four-engine widebodies along with some Airbus narrowbodies…
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Spirit Strangely Eliminates a Fare Bundle, Renames the Others
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Sometimes watching Spirit work feels like watching someone rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic. The recent announcement that the airline would be renaming its fare…
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Cranky on the Web: An Air Show Air Show Wrap, The Best and Worst Airports
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The Best Airports in the US…and the Worst – BottomLineI did a long interview with someone from BottomLine asking about features of the best and…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Spirit Strenuously Objects, But it has a First Class Now
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Spirit’s Spirited Objection to JetBlue & United’s Budding Friendship Spirit Airlines filed a very loud, very yellow objection to JetBlue and United’s proposed Blue Sky…
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Spirit Objects to the United/JetBlue Partnership, Tells DOT to Act
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United and JetBlue carefully crafted their Blue Sky partnership to avoid any regulatory concerns. The airlines aren’t codesharing, there is no pricing or schedule coordination,…
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How The B757 Changed the Hawaiian Interisland Market
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Yesterday I talked about how Delta had lost its interisland partner in Hawaiʻi, but then I wondered just how much of a problem that would…
