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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: United Dreams Big, AA AAdjusts, and More
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United Dreams Up Large Aircraft Order United Airlines announced an order of 200 aircraft from Boeing earlier this week, split between 100 B787 Dreamliners and 100 B737 MAX aircraft. With this large order for Boeing…
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Boom’s New Engine Plan Is Ambitious… at Best
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Boom’s Overture supersonic airplane has been in development for a very long time. And while the company has kept a wildly unrealistic very optimistic timetable — expecting entry into service by the end of the…
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The Cranky Network Awards Are Only 10 Weeks Away and We Need Your Nominations
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The 2023 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is only 10 weeks away, and it’s time to start getting excited. (This, of course, assumes you weren’t already excited, which we find…
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United Orders 100 Boeing 787s and Throws in 100 737 MAXs for Fun
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The worst kept secret in recent memory is now official. Today, United announced it is ordering 100 Boeing 787s, adding options for 100 more, converting 44 Boeing 737 MAX options into orders, and adding another…
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Porter Version 2.0 Gets Ready to Join the Fray Across Canada
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Porter is not a new airline, having flown the Canadian skies since 2006. Back then, it was the idea of launching a base at Toronto’s close-in City Airport (now named after Billy Bishop) that created…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: DHS Still Doesn’t Get Real, JetBlue Spackles New Tile, More
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This is The True Story of the Federal Government When it Stops Being Polite…and Starts Getting Real The federal government delayed implementing its requirement for travelers to obtain a REAL ID another two years –…
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Long Beach Can Add More Flights Because JetBlue Left
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The Long Beach Airport noise ordinance is far from straightforward, but it has coveted grandfathered status which allows it to continue to restrict traffic at the airport while most other airports cannot. Now, the airport…
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Hawaiian Tests Its NEOs With New Cook Islands Flight
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It has been a long time since Hawaiian has announced a new route, but I’m happy to say that day has finally come again. Hawaiian will begin flying from Honolulu to Raratonga in the Cook…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Frontier Launches GoWild! Is it Worth It?
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We know you missed us during our Thanksgiving hiatus, but we are back, and we are ready to talk about airlines again. Ok, so I’m…
