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Frontier Prepares for a World Where Spirit Continues to Exist
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Frontier made quite the splash this week when it rolled out a whopping 54 new routes for next summer. With such a big rollout, it’s hard to narrow this down into a single trend. That being said……
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Mesa Lives to See Another Day
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Say what you will about Mesa — and there is plenty that has been said — but there is no airline better at pure survival. Mesa has been on death’s door time and time again, and…
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Departing JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes Has Little to Show for His Nine Years at the Helm
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JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes recently announced that he would step down on February 12 after a nearly 9 year run. His long-time lieutenant Joanna Geraghty will take the reins, and oh boy, does she have…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: JetBlue, Spirit Left Feeling Blue, MAX 9 Grounding Continues
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JetBlue’s Deflated Spirit When U.S. District Judge William Young ended the merger of JetBlue and Spirit on Tuesday, the fate of both airlines became as unstable as a first-time traveler attempting a 1-hour connection on…
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JetBlue and Spirit Forced to Develop Their Own Strategies After the Merger is Blocked
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I’ve moved up my usual Thursday post to Wednesday instead… since there was no reason to wait to talk about what just happened yesterday. It was never easy to predict what the courts would say,…
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The Cranky Flier Interview with Porter EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Kevin Jackson
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. It has finally happened. I conducted an ACTUAL across the aisle interview for the first time in the history of this site. Kevin Jackson, Executive…
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A Quick Note on the Delta A350-1000 Order
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It’s a holiday, so I normally wouldn’t post today. But I have a backup of things I want to write about, so you get a quicky today on the worst-kept secret in ages… Delta’s decision to…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: MAX 9’s Remain Grounded, JetBlue’s New CEO
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FAA’s MAX 9 Investigation Begins The FAA opened its formal investigation into the incident on Alaska Flight 1282 last week, and the government took the time to state the obvious to Boeing by saying the…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and the Boeing 737-9 Max
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Listen on Apple, Spotify, direct, or wherever you get your podcasts. Airplanes having problems? Seems like a good reason for Dave and me to get to the band back together again and talk shop. Well, that plus…
