Recent Articles
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A Conversation With Myself About United’s Domestic Growth Plan
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United’s third quarter earnings call did not go over well with Wall Street, and last week’s fourth quarter call? Well that didn’t go well either.…
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Cranky on the Web: 2018 Air Travel Trends, Reserving Overhead Bins
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The Big Air Travel Trends of 2018: More Comfort and Price Points – Wendy Perrin #WOWWeek Wendy Perrin had her WOW Week this week talking…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest Sues, Delta Fights Comfort Animal Fraud, Yet Another 747 Tribute
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This week’s featured link: Southwest’s Bullshit Lawsuit Over A Site That Made $45 Helping People Book Cheaper Flights – TechDirt This guy is not happy…
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Delta Finally Brings Back the Part of an Interline Agreement with American That Matters Most
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It has been more than two years since Delta effectively killed its interline agreement with American. Now, after several painful operational messes, Delta has finally…
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Questioning the Volaris-Frontier Codeshare
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I really don’t like codeshares, but I can understand the rationale for putting them together. It’s all about increasing traffic by putting two networks together,…
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Biometric Boarding is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not (and You Should Like It)
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I headed out to gate 152 in the Bradley Terminal at LAX last Thursday to watch British Airways board a 787 bound for London. This…
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Cranky on the Web: Where Flight Numbers Come From, Translating Airline-Speak, How To Fly First Class
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Whoops, I forgot to post this yesterday, so a Sunday post it is… Those four-digit flight designations? Their days may be numbered – Los Angeles…
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3 Links I Love: Privatizing JFK, Heathrow Plan Cuts, Clearing the Runways of Snow
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This week’s featured link: The time has come to privatize JFK Airport – New York Post It’s a rare day that I find myself wanting…
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How Long Do I Have to Use My Airline Ticket? (Ask Cranky)
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I realize the title of this sounds odd since, you know, you usually just use your ticket when you take the flights you booked. But…
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United Improves While JetBlue, Alaska, and Southwest Don’t in 2017 On-Time Derby
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It’s time for some fun with numbers. The year is over, and my technical issue with masFlight was fixed. That means I was able to…
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Icelandair Tries New Market Types to Protect Its Model in a MAX/neo World
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On a cold winter back in 1999, my college friends and I decided to spend our last spring break in the exact opposite way of…
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3 Links I Love: Why JFK is Terrible (Reason #3,194), Alaska’s Winter of Discontent, Americans Flee to Tijuana
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This week’s featured link: Why Did New York’s JFK Airport Struggle to Cope With Its Flight Backlog After the Bomb Cyclone? – The Points Guy…
