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Final Cranky Dorkfest Details and a Reminder to Sign Up for Your Raffle Ticket
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We are a mere three days away from this year’s Cranky Dorkfest on Saturday, September 13, and that means it is time to get ready. What do you need to do? Let me help… 1)…
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Spirit All But Abandons the West
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Spirit was born in Detroit, but it earned its ultra low-cost carrier wings in Florida. The West wasn’t a part of the Spirit story in a meaningful way until fairly recently, and as I mentioned…
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Spirit Reverses Most of Its Recent Network Experiments
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Spirit is bankrupt, and it has told us that it will redesign its network. The airline is not wasting much time. Last week it announced it would be exiting 12 airports. Ok, it’s exiting 11…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit Retreats, Fires Back at United
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The Air Show is back in action after your late summer break. This week, we tackled the topic you’ve all been waiting for: what is wrong with American Airlines. We go a little more granular…
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México Starts to Crack Under US Pressure
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México has long done things its own way when it comes to aviation, sometimes without rhyme or reason. That is what has gotten the country into trouble with the US recently thanks to claimed violations…
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Spirit is Bankrupt Again, But Will It Survive?
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Nobody should be surprised to hear that Spirit has once again filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — unless the surprise was that it wasn’t a Chapter 7 liquidation. The fact that it happened just…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Froniter’s Spirited Route Expansion, Mexico City Returns its Slots Over the Wall
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Frontier Smells ULCC Blood, Expands its Frontiers Frontier dropped 20 new routes into its network like confetti this week, spanning Baltimore, Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, and Houston, with a few international plays to Central…
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Frontier Won’t Achieve Its Stated Goal, But What It Really Wants is For Spirit to Die
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In a bold pronouncement, Frontier has come out saying that it “commits to being the #1 low fare carrier in the Top 20 U.S. metros.” This is highly unlikely to ever happen, but let’s be…
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A Visit to the Memorial for Alaska 261
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Oxnard (in California) is not a household name, but it is a spot I visited as a kid growing up in the San Fernando Valley. It was a quiet place where you could escape to…
