Recent Articles
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Just Key the Mic and Start Talking – You’ll Figure It Out (Guest Post)
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Cranky is on a much-needed vacation and won’t be responding to emails this week. Fortunately, before I started drinking too heavily, I put some posts…
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Africa Then Versus Now, In the Eyes of a Pan Am Vet (Guest Post)
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Cranky is on a much-needed vacation and won’t be responding to emails this week. Fortunately, before I started drinking too heavily, I put some posts…
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Flying the Line, From a Pilot’s Perspective (Guest Post)
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Cranky is on a much-needed vacation and won’t be responding to emails this week. Fortunately, before I started drinking too heavily, I put some posts…
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Tales From an Airline Reservations Agent (Guest Post)
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Cranky is on a much-needed vacation and won’t be responding to emails this week. Fortunately, before I started drinking too heavily, I put some posts…
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Cranky on the Web (August 30-September 3)
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Remember, I’m on vacation starting now. Be back with you again next week. —- Why Continental and United Chose Southwest to Curry Favor with the…
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Delta Maintenance is Actually Growing and Profitable
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Many of you know that I’ll be going on vacation next week, but I thought I would squeeze in one more Delta post today. Next…
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Delta Brings Me to Visit the Mother Ship (Trip Report)
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As mentioned yesterday, I had the chance to go visit Delta this week for a visit. While I’m putting together posts from my time there,…
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Visiting Delta
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Late last week I was sitting at home taking care of three dogs, helping concierge clients, and realizing that my wife wouldn’t be back home…
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Continental, DCA – Washington/National, Delta, LGA – New York/La Guardia, Mergers/Finance, United, US Airways
Feds Inflict Far Less Pain on Continental and United Than Attempted with the US Airways/Delta Slot Swap
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In the immortal words of Dennis Hopper (rest in peace, you crazy bastard) . . . pop quiz, hotshot. Let’s say that you’ve been presented…
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Southwest To Fly to Newark Thanks to United/Continental Merger
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On Friday afternoon, Southwest announced it came to an agreement with Continental to lease 36 slots at Newark. Holy crap. Has hell frozen over? Nah.…
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Alaska Airlines, American, BNET, Continental, Horizon, Mergers/Finance, Safety/Security, United, US Airways
Cranky on the Web (August 21-27)
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Some feel blue as United, Continental wedding mixes old, new – Chicago Tribune The Trib looks at the United/Continental branding efforts, and I chime in…
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Travel Tools I (Might) Love: Hipmunk
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If you haven’t heard of Hipmunk, it’s no surprise. The site only launched in the last couple of weeks, but it’s off to a good…
