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Alaska Leaves LA-JFK While United Shifts 777 Plans
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It was a game of inches in Airlineville this week. We didn’t see the massive cuts we get most weeks, but the residents were tinkering according to the data they sent to Cirium. The Eskimo…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – The One About Boom
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Cranky Talk – The One About Boom Dave has been bugging me for a really long time to do a podcast on supersonic travel. I mean, this guy would not stop even though I told…
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Cranky on the Web: Summer Travel, Airport People Mover, Southwest CEO, and Airbus Isolation Tents
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It was a really busy media week, and these are only the ones I could find links for. Oddly enough, they are all on completely different topics. That never happens. American Airlines Cuts Some Flights…
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3 Links I Love: Interview with Flair and Gatwick, Freedom One, Long Walks in Salt Lake
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This Week’s Featured Link Deep Dive: Interview With Flair Airlines CEO Stephen Jones – Airways MagThis is a video production of just over 8 minutes that includes snippets of interviews with the CEO of Flair…
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Southwest Surprises With a Telling New CEO Pick
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Southwest CEO Gary Kelly has been talking about succession for a long time. He’s been in the job for 17 years, and the end was certainly going to come sooner rather than later. Yesterday, the…
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Two Days Of Deeper Exploration On Molokai (A Cranky Travelogue)
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Welcome back as we get toward the end of my latest Cranky Travelogue. It’s another Wednesday post, and that’s because this one has nothing to do with airlines or flying at all. Returning to Molokai…
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As Summer Ramps Up, Airline Operations Struggle Across the Board
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It has been plastered all over the news. Flights are being canceled, schedules are being pulled back… you’d think the entire airline industry was falling off a cliff. That’s not the case, but what is…
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American Cuts Back as Operational Problems Rise, Other Airlines Tinker
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It’s getting hot in Airlineville… a little too hot. Things are warming up so quickly for the Eagle that he’s had to take a breather, scaling back his plans this summer. The Cirium data also…
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Cranky on the Web: Long Hold Times
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The 9-hour wait: Here’s why airline hold times are so bad – TPGThis doesn’t exactly crack the case, but that’s because only the airlines know exactly what is causing the long hold times. For us…
