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Earning Back the Cost of Alaska’s Premium Class (Trip Report)
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The day I was flying up to San Francisco, Alaska had a total of 108 flights solely-within California on 15 distinct routes. Only four of those flights were operated by mainline aircraft. There’s one roundtrip…
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The Times They Are a Changin’: Anatomy of a Schedule Change
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Over Memorial Day weekend, American filed its “overlay” for post-Labor Day travel through September. This is the schedule the airline intends to fly, fixing the existing placeholder schedule which had been in place in some…
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Silver was Bought by Wexford for Cheap, But It Still Won’t Bother Flying
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Wexford Capital is back, and that’s a name you might remember from the past. The company is a bottom-feeding private equity investment firm that has put money into a variety of airlines when they’re bankrupt…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Tragedy in India, Silver Fades Away
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Air India Flight Crashes on Takeoff Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner operating from Ahmedabad to London/Gatwick, crashed shortly after takeoff Thursday. The aircraft was briefly airborne, lost lift shortly after departure, and…
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Piedmont Escapes Death Once Again as American Doles Out Embraer 175s
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Piedmont has long seemed like an airline living on borrowed time. For years it was the airline flying the smallest and least desirable fleets. On more than one occasion, it seemed like its time was…
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Avelo Gets Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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When Avelo decided to relocate airplanes to Phoenix/Mesa and operate deportation flights for the federal government, you probably saw the headlines raking the airline over the coals. There were protests, though none got as much…
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With JetBlue’s Partnership with United, JFK’s Terminal Fiefdoms Become More Clear
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I am always fascinated by New York’s JFK International Airport. It’s one of the rare examples in the US — the only example? — that has multiple private operators running different terminals. And in the…
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Cranky on the Web: American’s Fancy New 787
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American’s inaugural flight on its new 787-9, internally called the 787-9P, was from Chicago to Los Angeles this week. While the airplane was on the ground at LAX on its turn, I was invited to…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Indigo Reaches for the Sky, Alaska’s European Vacation
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IndiGo Goes Towards SkyTeam IndiGo — India’s largest airline — isn’t quite yet joining SkyTeam, but it might as well at this point. The carrier announced plans to build a partnership connecting India with both…
