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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…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – A US Travel Stress Test With Special Guest Dawn Gilbertson!
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Dave and I have spent a lot of time talking to you about airlines, but you know what we realized? Maybe you’d like to hear…
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Cranky on the Web: More on Spirit
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Another vote delay leaves Spirit’s merger with Frontier in question while JetBlue circles – CNBCThis is so 1 week ago. I mean, the vote has been delayed yet again, but it was still a good…
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3 Links I Love: The Emirate Strikes Back, The Best Airline Ad, More
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This Week’s Featured Link Emirates statement on operations at London Heathrow – Emirates NewsEmirates has said what everyone in the world wants to say. “Get your shit together, Heathrow. Your solution sucks, and we are…
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Where US Airports Stand In the Recovery
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There has been a lot of talk lately about how the airlines have raced to add capacity regardless of their ability to actually operate it. That is true, and Delta proved that with disappointing Q2…
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Southwest’s Long Beach Performance Improves
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As I’m sure you all do on your Sunday nights, I was flipping through Cirium data looking for something fun to analyze when it dawned on me I hadn’t really dug into Long Beach performance…
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Prospects Continue to Dim for the Frontier/Spirit Merger
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Since the day it was announced, Spirit’s board has been 100 percent behind its merger deal with Frontier. Even when JetBlue entered with a bid of its own, it seemed like the Frontier deal would…
