Recent Articles
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2022 Flying Summary
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This map looks weird. Any year without Hawai’i is a sad one. Of course, this was primarily due to me doing the Oakland Corridor Challenge.…
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Airlines We Lost 2022
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It’s that time again where we review the airlines that we lost during the year. And you know what? It was a very short list…
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Reviewing Your 2022 Predictions and Making Your 2023 Picks
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It’s been a lot of fun reading through predictions this year. It’s the first time in awhile we’ve started looking beyond COVID, at least a…
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Cranky Weekly Review: United Needs a New Pilot Boss, Boeing’s About to Get Lucky, More
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Publishing Note: We’ll be taking some time off during the holidays, so we are pre-scheduling some posts and going quieter than usual. Any comments that…
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How the American and Mesa Relationship Reached Its Rocky Conclusion
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The smart bet would have been on American and Mesa terminating their relationship multiple times over the past several years, but time and time again,…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Why is Seat Pitch a Terrible Metric for Legroom?
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. I hate seat pitch with a passion. Back in the day, it was a reasonable…
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American Ends Its Regional Partnership with Mesa, United Swoops In to Complete the Pilot Circle of Life
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The long-troubled relationship between American and its regional partner Mesa has finally reached its conclusion. According to Cirium data and confirmed through an internal memo,…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: United Dreams Big, AA AAdjusts, and More
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United Dreams Up Large Aircraft Order United Airlines announced an order of 200 aircraft from Boeing earlier this week, split between 100 B787 Dreamliners and…
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Boom’s New Engine Plan Is Ambitious… at Best
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Boom’s Overture supersonic airplane has been in development for a very long time. And while the company has kept a wildly unrealistic very optimistic timetable…
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The Cranky Network Awards Are Only 10 Weeks Away and We Need Your Nominations
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The 2023 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is only 10 weeks away, and it’s time to start getting excited. (This,…
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United Orders 100 Boeing 787s and Throws in 100 737 MAXs for Fun
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The worst kept secret in recent memory is now official. Today, United announced it is ordering 100 Boeing 787s, adding options for 100 more, converting…
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Porter Version 2.0 Gets Ready to Join the Fray Across Canada
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Porter is not a new airline, having flown the Canadian skies since 2006. Back then, it was the idea of launching a base at Toronto’s…
