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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Southwest Credits No Longer Expire With Southwest Chief Marketing Officer Ryan Green!
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We didn’t plan on having another guest this week, but when the opportunity arises… who are we to turn it down? Southwest made its announcement…
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Cranky on the Web: JetBlue, Spirit, and Nothing Else
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This was a local news kind of week, and that is always fun. With Frontier out, JetBlue likely to buy Spirit; higher airfares possible at Philly and Baltimore? – ABC 27 HarrisburgThis piece came out…
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3 Links I Love: SpirBlue is Happening, Small Airports with Big Problems, Big Props in Molokai
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This Week’s Featured Link JetBlue and Spirit to Create a National Low-Fare Challenger to the Dominant Big Four Airlines – JetBlue NewsroomThe hostile bid has worked. JetBlue and Spirit, together forever… if the feds say…
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The Frontier/Spirit Merger is Dead… And Spirit’s Board Only Has One Good Option
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Everyone has been waiting for the results of the Spirit vote on the Frontier merger for weeks now. After multiple delays, this is done. Spirit shareholders have given a big middle finger to Frontier, wooed…
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The Curious and Frightening Case of American Flight 300’s Near Accident
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I find incident/accident investigations fascinating in general, but I rarely if ever cover them here. That being said, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) just put out its final report on American flight 300’s near…
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Air Canada and United Tighten Up Partnership with Transborder Joint Venture
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It’s always been a weird dance between Air Canada and United. For two decades,the airlines have had a joint venture, but it has only covered Transatlantic travel. Now, a new joint venture that will cover…
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Cranky on the Web: My Most Hated Myth
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The Myth of Best Day to Buy Cheap Flights | Expert Interview with Brett Snyder – VerifyThere is no myth that I dislike more than the one that there is some magical best time-of-day or…
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Where Global Airports Stand in the Recovery
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Last week I looked at how US airport capacity has changed during the pandemic, and now it’s time to go global. As a reminder, I took Cirium data and plotted it on Great Circle Mapper.…
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Canada Brings Back Testing Rules as Its Airlines Crumble
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If you were hoping to go visit Canada this summer — as I am — you may be getting nervous about those plans. Thanks to an impressively terrible operation at Air Canada and a moderately…