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How LaGuardia Changed for American and JetBlue With the Northeast Alliance
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As we all wait to figure out whether the Northeast Alliance (NEA) between American and JetBlue will survive in some form after last month’s devastating ruling, I decided to take a look at just how…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – A Conversation with Wallace Beall on Airline Pricing and Overbooked Flights
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, direct, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we’re back. See, I told you we weren’t ending Cranky Talk entirely. We just decided to take it off a set schedule, so…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: American to Appeal, Frontier Eyes NYC, More
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AAmericAAn PrepAAres AAppeal on AAlliAAnce Decision American CEO Robert Isom announced the carrier would move forward with an appeal on its loss in court on its Northeast Alliance with JetBlue Airways. JetBlue has yet to…
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American Was Fine to Atlanta, But Not Quite as Good as Delta Coming Home (Trip Report)
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I had to head out to Atlanta for a friend’s wedding, so I’d fly Delta, right? Wrong! Ok, half wrong. I did fly Delta on the return since nobody else had a mid-day option that…
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Lufthansa Group Acquires the Worst Airline Ever
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I can’t remember the first time I heard a rumor that Lufthansa was interested in buying Alitalia… ages ago to be sure. But this long-lived rumor has now become reality. Lufthansa will buy a chunk…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Haneda Brawl Continues, ITA Gets Owned, More…
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Delta and United Brawl Over Haneda Slots Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are going head-to-head throwing repeated haymakers at each other in the form of DOT filings as the two feud over Delta’s proposal…
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Dallas/Fort Worth Sets Plans to Accommodate American’s Growth
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When Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) opened nearly 50 years ago, it was built with massive growth in mind. Even the original terminal-numbering of 2W (now B), 2E (now A), 3E (now C), and 4E (now E)…
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Meet X̱áat Ḵwáani, Alaska’s Special Livery That’s a Lot More Than Just Salmon
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To the casual observer, it looked like April 25 would be the day the salmon died. Alaska flight 650 arrived in Seattle from Albuquerque just after 9:30pm that evening. This was the last flight for…
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Why the Judge Ruled Against American and JetBlue’s Northeast Alliance
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On the surface, it looked like American and JetBlue had a strong case to continue their partnership, but in a 94-page ruling released Friday, Judge Leo Sorokin painted a picture of ineptitude. He cited the…
