Recent Articles
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JetBlue Might Kind of Like Connections Now
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JetBlue has been a lot of things over the years, but most of all it’s been a point-to-point airline. It loves to fly people nonstop…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK: JetBlue Traverses the Country, Gol and Azul May Buddy Up
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JetBlue Digs Deeper and Shorter Into Leisure This Summer Remember that weird time during the pandemic when every airline thought Traverse City was an untapped…
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Breeze’s Entry Into New Haven Has Been a Bumpy One
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It was November 2021 when Avelo struck gold. The airline went into the recently-abandoned New Haven Tweed airport along the southern Connecticut coast, and it…
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Air Wisconsin Goes It Alone as American Ends Eagle Partnership
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There are a handful of regional airlines that I’m always surprised to find still in business. There’s Mesa, of course, and yes, GoJet, but one…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK: Delta’s Year was Profitable, Southwest CFO “Retires”
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Delta Finishes 2024 Flush with Cash Delta Air Lines reported its year-end earnings on Friday, and the carrier did well — to the tune of…
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Delta Makes a Spectacular, Amazing, Astounding Announcement About… Nothing
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It is Consumer Electronics Show (CES) week in Las Vegas, so the tech world is abuzz with all kinds of chatter about stuff and things.…
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Announcing the 2025 Cranky Network Award Nominations
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Now that the new year has begun, it is time to reveal the nominations for the upcoming 2025 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky…
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American’s Terrible Paid Seat Policy Chooses What’s Easy Over What’s Right
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It is somewhat remarkable to me just how often certain airlines default to the most customer-unfriendly way of doing business. Before I even say who…
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Condor Quickly Remakes Its Summer Network
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Welcome back from the holidays. It’s that awful first day when everyone is back working and nobody wants to be. So, let’s pretend we’re all…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK: Silver’s Finances are Anything but Golden, BA Goes Revenue-Based
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Silver Files for Chapter 11 As the minutes counted down to the end of 2024 earlier this week, the number of Florida-based airlines whose name…
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Reviewing Your 2024 Predictions and Making Your 2025 Picks
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Happy new year, everybody! Now that we are squeaking into 2025, it’s time to look at how many of your 2024 predictions came true and…
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2024 Flying Summary
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It’s time to look back at my year of flying, and it was a good one. I finally crossed an ocean again for the first…
