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After 35 Years, Lakeland Gets Another Chance with Avelo
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Sometime in the spring of 1988, the last Delta Connection puddle jumper departed Lakeland, Florida and never looked back. Since then, there have been exactly zero scheduled commercial airline flights. That will be changing, likely in May…
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Spirit’s Turnaround Plan is Filled With Hopes and Dreams, Few Specifics
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To the surprise of nobody, Spirit lost a bunch more money in the fourth quarter of 2023. In fact, it lost over $160 million excluding special items for a miserable -12.4 percent operating margin. This is not…
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When Hot Markets Go Cold: Vegas Edition
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I looked at the awful Q3 results for Orlando last week, and this week it’s time to look at the other market everyone’s talking about: Las Vegas. Las Vegas is similar to Orlando in that…
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Cranky on the Web: 10 Years Since United Left Cleveland
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Lower fares, fewer flights: How the closure of United’s hub in Cleveland has altered air travel over 10 years – Cleveland.comIt’s been 10 years since United shuttered its Cleveland hub, and the local paper put…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Spirit Comes Up Short, Frontier Adds a Perfect 10
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Spirit Ends Tumultuous Year in the Red Spirit Airlines’s 2023 Earnings Report revealed that 2023 ended with a loss as the carrier reported a $215 million deficit for Q4, capping a year that saw a…
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Across the Aisle Interviews, Distribution, Operations, Podcast, Southwest, The Cranky Flier InterviewThe Cranky Flier Interview with Southwest SVP Network Planning and Network Operations Control Adam Decaire
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Back in 2022 when Andrew Watterson moved from Chief Commercial Officer at Southwest to Chief Operating Officer, he took the network planning team with him. I…
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When Hot Markets Go Cold: Orlando Edition
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We heard last year all about the struggles in the ultra low cost carrier (ULCC) world, but now that we have DOT’s Q3 2023 data, we can see just how bad things were. I was particularly…
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SkyWest Finds a Place for All Those CRJs With Contour Stake
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There’s a good chance you missed it, but in SkyWest’s earnings release this week, the airline announced it bought a 25 percent stake in Contour. This is a shrewd move. I haven’t spent much time covering…
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Cranky on the Web: The Idiotic Attacks on Airline Diversity
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How right-wing influencers turned airplanes and airports into culture war battlegrounds – NBC NewsThe fact that there was even enough chatter to write this article makes me angry. The author did a good job of choosing…
