Recent Articles
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The Cranky Flier Interview #22 – Landline Co-Founder and CEO David Sunde
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Pop quiz: What kind of airline has dreams of being a regional operator but has no interest in actually operating airplanes? The answer: Landline. The…
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Frontier Leaves LAX For Good
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The news sounded suspiciously like an expansion. The twin press releases proclaimed “Frontier Airlines Expands at Ontario International Airport” and “Frontier Airlines Announces its Arrival…
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Frontier Leaves LAX, Southwest Boosts Hawai’i, and Delta Takes a Swing at American
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Last week, we left off with the residents of Airlineville making big changes well into the summer and fall. This week, they took a break…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – New Airlines on the Block
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Cranky Talk – New Airlines on the Block Spring has sprung, the leaves are growing, the birds are singing, and little baby airlines are hatching.…
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Cranky on the Web: What the Future Will Bring, Surging Airline Demand
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Even though these happened over the last couple weeks, I haven’t actually published a Cranky on the Web in awhile. So consider this a catch-up…
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3 Links I Love: Breeze Shifts Inflight Plan, Alaska’s Fleet, Another New Airline
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This Week’s Featured Link Breeze eases plan to rely on students as flight attendants – The Associated PressIt never seemed like a great plan, and…
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United Tries to End the Blame Game By Retiring Delay Codes
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United is working toward something will be unimaginable to just about every frontline airline employee. It is planning on eliminating internal delay codes, those obnoxious…
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Zooming In On Why Avelo’s New Base at New Haven Should Be a Winner
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TheAirchive.net is sponsoring today’s post. Since we’re talking about New Haven today, I decided to go and look through the website’s enormous archives to see…
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Airlines Begin to Stretch Schedules Into the Fall, Prepare for More Stability
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This week, the residents of Airlineville got right back to work. With demand rising and becoming more predictable, some of the residents are getting bold…
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3 Links I Love: TSA Reservations, PSA Legend, United Gets Feisty, More MH370
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This Week’s Featured Link Seattle is testing a new system that lets travelers make a reservation at the TSA checkpoint – TPGThis is a pretty…
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Who the F*&@ is Connect Airlines?
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When it rains it pours. After years of no significant startups in the US, we now have a third entry in a very short time…
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Sun Country Stakes Its Claim as Vacation King of Minnesota and Wisconsin
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Sun Country built its entire business on people from the Minneapolis/St Paul area desperately needing to escape to warmer climates during the long, cold winter.…
