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Go On Delta, Take the Money and Merge
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I don’t know about you, but all this merger talk and no action is starting to make my eyes glaze over. I want action! We…
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Summer Schedule Buildup in Full Swing
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It’s that time of year when the airlines start announcing changes for their summer schedules. I won’t mention all of them, but I will mention…
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Virgin Makes Us Wait for Six More Days
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Virgin America has requested that the DOT give them an extension of six days until January 16 to file a response to the show cause…
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Why United Won the Right for More China Flights
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The long awaited decision about who would win this year’s rights to fly to China came down today. United was awarded the rights to fly…
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Northwest Says Aloha to the DC-10
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DC-10 Retirement – 01-07-07 – 01 – 017 Originally uploaded by NWA Moments. Yesterday morning, Northwest flight 98 arrived in Minneapolis/St Paul from Honolulu. That…
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JetBlue Heads for San Francisco
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San Francisco Airport (SFO) leaked (pdf) the news yesterday that a “major U.S. air carrier” would announce service to the airport today, January 9. Of…
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How Important is Inflight Entertainment?
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Remember when inflight entertainment was just a projector showing movies at the front of the cabin? (If you’re on a United 747, that’s still the…
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Adam Air – Still Looking
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Remember that Adam Air plane crash in Indonesia last week? Well despite one false report, they unbelievably still haven’t found the plane’s remains yet. I…
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The LCC Round the World Challenge
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All this talk about the launch of Air Asia X, the new long haul low cost carrier got me thinking. With the proliferation of low…
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Bye Bye Blogspot
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I use Blogger to publish and host my blog, so that’s why the URL has been http://crankyflier.blogspot.com until now. Fortunately, Blogger has just introduced a…
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Who the F*** is SkyValue?
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In the second installment of my “Who the F*** is . . .” series, we look at SkyValue (Allegiant was the first). These guys are…
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Long Haul, Low Cost Air Asia X
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It’s time for another fun filled airline makeover, boys and girls! Rumors had been flying all week that Virgin Atlantic, easyJet, and Air Asia had…
