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Delta Finds the Best Use for Gogo Internet Yet: Turbulence Avoidance
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While the primary use of inflight internet has been to keep customers busy and distracted, there’s always been the potential for something more. Delta is now going to use Gogo’s wireless internet to make it…
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Cranky on the Web: Airlines Hiring Airline People
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United’s New President Shows Why Airlines Hire Insiders as Senior Executives – Skift Brian Sumers took at look at why airlines hire other airline people to fill their exec needs instead of going outside. United…
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3 Links I Love: Interviewing Ed Bastian, MD-80s Go Bye Bye, LAX in the 1960s
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This week’s featured link: Delta Air Lines CEO on why he still flies in the back of the plane – Marketplace Here’s a great 27m25s podcast where Kai Ryssdal from Marketplace interviews Delta CEO Ed…
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9 Airports, 1 Day: Long Beach -> Oakland -> Ontario -> Sacramento -> Orange County
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Enough build-up. Let’s get into the details of my crazy day of flying between 9 airports. Today I’ll look at the first four flights, and then next week, I’ll talk about the last four. Long…
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Cranky’s 7 Best (or, Um, Worst) Photoshop Efforts
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You’d think after 10 years that my awful photoshop skills would have improved, but nay. I take pride in the fact that they haven’t become any better. There have been a lot of terrible and…
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American’s President Goes to United and Both Airlines May Benefit
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I know I said I was going to do the first half of my 9 Airports, 1 Day trip report today, but, well, it’s not every day that the President of American moves into the…
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9 Airports, 1 Day: Chronicling an Incredibly Long But Successful Day
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I know it’s taken me awhile to write this one up, but when you do 8 flights in one day, it’s not a quick process to document it. For those who missed it, on August…
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Cranky on the Web: United On Time, Delta’s Bag Tracking
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United makes good on pledge to improve on-time performance – Travel Weekly United’s operation has certainly improved, but I cautioned that some of this is due to schedule padding. That’s fine for the short run…
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Dorkfest is Only 3 Weeks Away
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If you were thinking about buying a ticket to come out for Crankyspotting Dorkfest on September 17 this year, then today is the day to do it. We’re three weeks away and that means this…
