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Flybondi Starts Its New Lease on Life With a Strange Aircraft Order
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Argentina is an awful market for airlines — there is really no other way to look at it historically — but that hasn’t stopped some brave souls from trying their hand at making a living.…
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Cleveland’s Wild Airport Terminal Plan
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After writing up Pittsburgh’s new terminal, I decided it would be fun to look at other former hubs to see just how they’ve been handled. None is stranger than Cleveland’s plan called CLEvolution. Many of…
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Southwest Stakes Its Claim in San Diego With New Flights
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If you live in San Diego, you are a happy camper right now. Alaska and Southwest both continue to aggressively add new flights as they look to get a leg up as the most important…
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Allegiant Takes the Redneck Riviera Into Alabama
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There are some places on my bucket list to visit before I die, and then there are other places which I have absolutely no desire to visit at all. The Redneck Riviera falls into the…
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United Cuts Flights As Pratt Problems Mount
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You may have heard that United has decided not to fly Washington/Dulles – Dakar and Newark – Stockholm next year. Many have assumed that this is due to weak demand, but that doesn’t appear to…
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Cranky on the Web: Holiday Travel and What’s Wrong with Delta
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Bay Area airports prep for busy holiday travel as uncertainties loom – Mercury NewsIt’s time for holiday travel, and that means a blur of requests to discuss travel tips… but not this one. This was…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Europe Gets the (Jet)Blues, Allegiant Adds
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JetBlue Adds Two to Europe JetBlue Airways announced two new European destinations on Wednesday, adding service from Boston to both Barcelona and Milan/Malpensa. The flights will be daily for the summer, and will connect JetBlue’s…
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Spirit Learns That Bankruptcy and Concern of Imminent Failure Aren’t Good for Business
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September has always been a bad month for leisure airlines. That’s the first full month after kids are back in school, and it’s when almost nobody is flying to the disgustly-swampy, occassionally-hurricaney land of Florida.…
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Pittsburgh Leaves Its Hub Past Behind With the New Terminal That Opens Today
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When the PIttsburgh International Airport built its brand new terminal in the early 1990s, it was preparing for a future as a major hub for USAir. Things have not gone quite as planned. More than…
