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Cranky on the Web: TSA Chaos
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Trump says he’ll sign order to pay TSA agents as travel chaos continues – NPR Morning Edition The question of what travelers can do to be made whole for their expenses due to missed flights…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: United’s Media Day Frenzy, JetBlue Rumors Abound
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United Shows Off Its New Toys at Media Day United Airlines held a media day this week, and it rolled out its fanciest new airplanes, including a surprise glow-up on even the lowly CRJ200. In…
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The CRJ450 Shows Off United’s Aggressive Creativity
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United made it easy for me this week. The airline held its big media day right in my background at United’s hangar at LAX, and it was quite an event filled with a ton of…
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TAR Was a Wild Ride (Travelogue)
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You may be wondering why I went to La Paz for one night in the first place when I could have just flown home from Los Cabos. The reason originally was that I needed to…
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I’m Not Loving Elite Status
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Last year that I realized my flying plans lined up in a way that meant I’d find myself qualifying for elite status for the first time with a push from a credit card. At the…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit Has a Plan, Denver Has No Power
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Spirit Files Bankruptcy Plan Spirit filed its restructuring and reorganization plan with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, and it’s highlight is a further effort to reduce the size of…
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The Airlines See Only Sunshine and Rainbows
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The JP Morgan Industrials Conference was held this week, and that’s the place to watch for airlines to lay out how the business is trending as Q1 comes to a close. With the war continuing…
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Los Cabos and La Paz Couldn’t Be More Different (Travelogue)
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This may come as a shock, but I am not a fancy man. Ok, that’s probably not going to surprise anyone. But when it came to this visit to Cabo, fancy was the name of…
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Better Airline Data Has Arrived
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One thing that’s relatively unique about the US airline industry is that there is good access to data thanks to the government’s filing requirements. This has recently gotten even better as new regulations from the…
