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Atmos Rewards Pushes the Burden of Elite Status Further on to the Alaska and Hawaiian Customer
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Alaska and Hawaiian officially rolled out their new combined loyalty program yesterday called Atmos Rewards. In short, the program largely stays similar to what Alaska Mileage Plan had before. I’m not here to give you…
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RSVPs and T-Shirts for Cranky Dorkfest
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Cranky Dorkfest is less than a month away on September 13 (full details here), and I have two updates for you: 1) The Importance of Your RSVP Did you RSVP yet to attend Cranky Dorkfest?…
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Three Big Airlines, Three Very Different Approaches to Long-Haul
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I’ve had a lot of offline discussion about aircraft configuration and premium focus as of late, so I decided it was time to dive into the details to see just how things have changed at…
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Southwest’s Big Schedule Restructure Caters to Connections
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Southwest extended its schedule from early March to early April last week. Sure it included a new city — Knoxville — but the real news was buried in the weeds. Even though capacity is basically…
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Cranky on the Web: Cheap Seats Disappearing, Blocking Middles, Alaska’s Strategy
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Why Cheap Airline Seats Are Getting Harder to Find – The Wall Street Journal (Subscription required)The numbers suggest that fares are starting to rebound for the airlines, but I gave the opposite opinion for this…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit Gasps for Air, Delta’s Mexican JV Does the Same
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Book Now on Spirit, While Supplies Last Spirit Airlines said in its recent 10-Q that there’s “substantial doubt” it can survive the next 12 months, which is a another way to warn us for “we…
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Spirit’s Survival Hopes Dim After Posting Awful Q2 Results
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The roller coaster ride that has defined Spirit over the last five years appears to be coming to an end. After pioneering the ultra low cost carrier (ULCC) model in the US, the airline rose…
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Alaska Flexes Its Heartland Muscles
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Northwest Airlines was an absolutely ruthless competitor, and I mean that in the best way. With its hubs in Detroit and Minneapolis/St Paul, Northwest dominated the upper Midwest, and it felt compelled to extend its…
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American Goes Retro and Opportunistic With 2026 Europe Routes
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It may still be summer, but American is already talking about talking NEXT summer. The airline put out its plans for new routes next year, and they fall into three unsurprising buckets. For the most…
