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Regionals Are So Desperate for Captains, Mesa Will Pay Anyone $20,000 to Find One
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We all know that regional airlines have struggled to attract enough pilots to keep their operations running over the last couple years. Many have failed to fulfill their obligations and have parked airplanes outright. They’ve…
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Cranky on the Web: Paying to Avoid Children
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For travelers who want to avoid babies and kids, one airline will test an adults-only section – Associated PressI have no problem with an airline selling an adults-only section. What I just don’t know if…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: JetBlue Gets Angry, UK ATC Fails, More
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JetBlue’s Redacted Nightmare JetBlue and its legal team are none too pleased about the gaffe last week which saw a filing by plaintiffs attorneys reveal improperly redacted documents as part of a lawsuit by a…
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Alaska Eliminates the Need for the Airport Passport Check
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When I flew Alaska out of Portland recently, I noticed that there were still kiosks there for international travel. Those machines’ days may be numbered now that Alaska has rolled out a remote passport verification…
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Who the F*&@ is BermudAir?
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I haven’t done one of these posts in awhile, so… let’s do it. BermudAir is a new airline that’s going to start flying to the US this week, so we should all probably learn about…
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Red Way Goes Away
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It appears that Lincoln, Nebraska’s longshot play to get more air service has now failed.. and remarkably quickly. The creative but risky Red Way operation has announced it will shut down at the end of…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: JetBlue’s Redacted Nightmare, Pilot AAgreement, Frontier Adds Frontiers, and More
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JetBlue Says the Quiet Part Out Loud A redaction error in documents submitted by JetBlue while defending against the lawsuit brought on by customers in Massachusetts on its takeover of Spirit revealed that part of…
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American Gets Harder and Harder to Work With (Tales From the Field)
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You said you wanted to hear more tales from our experiences at Cranky Concierge, so here I am with another round. I’ve written here at length about American’s big sales transformation where it slashed sales…
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Are JSX And SkyWest Charter Legal? The Fight Over Part 380 and Part 135
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I’m fairly certain the first rule of gripping headline-writing is to not cite sections of the federal code. But, well, here we are. There’s been a lot of discussion lately over the legality of what…
