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Cranky Weekly Review: Southwest Begins to Dig Out, Delta Logs On, and More
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Southwest Offers 25k Rapid Rewards Points as Customer Service Recovery Begins Southwest Airlines offered 25,000 Rapid Rewards points – valued by the carrier at about $300 until the next devaluation – as an apology to…
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Southwest’s Holiday Failure is Great News for Future Travelers
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I’m back from exile, and man am I glad nothing big happened while I was gone. Oh wait, that massive Southwest opreational failure? I suppose we should talk about that. Granted, I was watching more…
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2022 Flying Summary
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This map looks weird. Any year without Hawai’i is a sad one. Of course, this was primarily due to me doing the Oakland Corridor Challenge. Miles: 13,167 (11,674 last year)Segments: 26 (16 last year)New Aircraft:…
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Airlines We Lost 2022
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It’s that time again where we review the airlines that we lost during the year. And you know what? It was a very short list this year. As always, I keep a list of my…
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Reviewing Your 2022 Predictions and Making Your 2023 Picks
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It’s been a lot of fun reading through predictions this year. It’s the first time in awhile we’ve started looking beyond COVID, at least a little. And this is no small feat since you wrote…
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Cranky Weekly Review: United Needs a New Pilot Boss, Boeing’s About to Get Lucky, More
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Publishing Note: We’ll be taking some time off during the holidays, so we are pre-scheduling some posts and going quieter than usual. Any comments that are moderated will take longer to approve, and we won’t…
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How the American and Mesa Relationship Reached Its Rocky Conclusion
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The smart bet would have been on American and Mesa terminating their relationship multiple times over the past several years, but time and time again, the pact endured. That streak ended last weekend when it…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Why is Seat Pitch a Terrible Metric for Legroom?
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. I hate seat pitch with a passion. Back in the day, it was a reasonable proxy for legroom, but now it is not. Seat construction…
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American Ends Its Regional Partnership with Mesa, United Swoops In to Complete the Pilot Circle of Life
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The long-troubled relationship between American and its regional partner Mesa has finally reached its conclusion. According to Cirium data and confirmed through an internal memo, Mesa’s last day operating as American Eagle will be April…
