Recent Articles
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Allegiant’s Transformation Leads to a New Aircraft Order
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I’ve always talked about Allegiant as an airline that loves buying cheap, older aircraft, so was I surprised when the airline announced an order for…
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Spirit Does Its Best AirTran Impersonation
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When Bob Fornaro took over as President and CEO of Spirit earlier this year, we knew there would be changes to the airline. What we…
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3 Links I Love: Middle East Fight Continues, Qatar Goes Italian, Lumexis Goodbye
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This week’s featured link: The Middle Carrier Fight Isn’t Dead – Twitter If you read only BoardingArea blogs, you might think that the dispute over…
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My First Southwest Flight from Long Beach (Trip Report)
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This wasn’t supposed to be this way. I had to be up in Sonoma for a family event, and initially, I thought this would be…
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Celebrate 10 Cranky Years with an Insane Day of Flying on Southwest
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On August 15, 2006, I published “Welcome From the Cranky Flier,” my very first post. Here we are, 10 years and nearly 3,000 posts later…
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Long Beach May Lose in the Brewing Southwest vs JetBlue War
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It’s amazing how much news such a little airport like Long Beach can generate. Now of course, since I live in the shadows of the…
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FAA Extension is Not an “Amazing Win” For Consumers, But It’s Something
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I couldn’t help but scratch my head when I saw the headline. “Newly passed air travel legislation is ‘an amazing win for consumers’.” Yes, the…
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Cranky on the Web: More on Southwest’s Tech Failure
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Southwest still delaying, canceling flights after technology outage – Houston Chronicle As Southwest continues to struggle to pull itself together again after its technology outage…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest’s Inexcusable IT Meltdown, Why Concorde Failed, Boeing 100
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Hope you like videos, because this week is full of them. This week’s featured link: Live from the Listening Center discussing recovery efforts with Southwest’s…
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DOT Throws Delta a Japanese Bone
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It’s here! It’s here! Maybe I need to tone it down a notch, but the tentative decision on which airlines will get the new daytime…
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United May Not Be Prosecuted for Bribery Scandal, But It Did Have to Release All the Details
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Remember that whole bribery saga that led to United CEO Jeff Smisek losing his job last year? Well, there is now a resolution to this…
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Turkish Airlines Has to Be Concerned About Its Future
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If you had to pick one airline in the world that you’d hate to be running right now, Turkish would be at the top of…
