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ULCCs Begin to Allow Bookings VERY Far in Advance
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Since the dawn of time (or computer reservation systems), airlines have generally coalesced around the idea of taking bookings no more than 330ish days before travel. Newer, low-cost airlines have often had a shorter booking…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – How COVID is Impacting Airline Schedules
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Cranky Talk – How COVID is Impacting Airline Schedules Every Monday, I talk about the various airline schedule changes that happened during the previous week. But in those, I don’t talk about the customer impact.…
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Yes More Furloughs are Coming, No Don’t Bail The Airlines Out Again
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We are now less than 60 days from the expiration of the government’s Payroll Support Program (PSP) version 2.0, and that means it’s time to start talking about version 3.0. Ok, so that’s not true……
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Escalating the Battle for LA, a Chicago Twist, and One Airline Goes Big
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After the torrid pace of change last week, things slowed down a bit in Airlineville this week. But that doesn’t mean that the data coming out of Cirium was any less interesting. In fact, there…
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3 Links I Love: Geneva Goes Down, New Mint, Qantas Embraers, Boeing NMA
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This week’s featured link SWISS temporarily reduces its Geneva flight operations to an absolute minimum in view of further-tightened travel restrictions – SWISS NewsroomThings are looking darker and darker on the world stage for the…
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Lufthansa’s Confusing Low-Cost Journey Goes In Circles Once Again
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Six months ago, Lufthansa Group puzzlingly announced that it would create a new airline to act as its long-haul, low-cost operation. With a project codename of “Ocean,” the new airline was simply expected to be…
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Delta Tempts Fate as It Triples Down on Health and Safety
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Thank you once again to our sponsor TheAirchive.net for supporting Cranky! It’s a Delta-focused post, so I had to pick something from the Delta Heritage Museum for the last day of sponsorship by The Airchive.…
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Cuts, Cuts, and More Cuts Begin to Bleed Into Spring Break
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The Airchive is back for another week. Thanks to them for supporting Cranky! TheAirchive.Net is a vast aviation archive of thousands and thousands of items of #AvGeek Goodness: vintage timetables, route maps, brochures, historic flights, airport terminals,…
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3 Links I Love: American Dropping the Hammer, Project New Norwegian, Avatar Billions
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This week’s featured link An update on Booking and Ticketing Practices – American SalesLinkI can’t link directly to this, but if you scroll down on the page and look for the title under the “Latest…
