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Iberia’s Remarkable Transformation Into a Profitable Growth Engine
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Flash back about 15 years, and Iberia was a joke. It was busy flying a fleet of gas-guzzling four-engine widebodies along with some Airbus narrowbodies and a lot of turboprops from its Madrid and Barcelona…
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Spirit Strangely Eliminates a Fare Bundle, Renames the Others
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Sometimes watching Spirit work feels like watching someone rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic. The recent announcement that the airline would be renaming its fare bundles felt like yet another prime example until I looked…
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Cranky on the Web: An Air Show Air Show Wrap, The Best and Worst Airports
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The Best Airports in the US…and the Worst – BottomLineI did a long interview with someone from BottomLine asking about features of the best and worst airports. This is the list they came up with…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Spirit Strenuously Objects, But it has a First Class Now
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Spirit’s Spirited Objection to JetBlue & United’s Budding Friendship Spirit Airlines filed a very loud, very yellow objection to JetBlue and United’s proposed Blue Sky partnership, and hoo boy, it reads like an ex watching…
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Spirit Objects to the United/JetBlue Partnership, Tells DOT to Act
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United and JetBlue carefully crafted their Blue Sky partnership to avoid any regulatory concerns. The airlines aren’t codesharing, there is no pricing or schedule coordination, and in general, they’ve followed the guidance that the judge…
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How The B757 Changed the Hawaiian Interisland Market
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Yesterday I talked about how Delta had lost its interisland partner in Hawaiʻi, but then I wondered just how much of a problem that would be. That took me down a rabbit hole where I…
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Delta Loses Its Interisland Partner in Hawaiʻi, And It Has No Options
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Delta quietly posted on its airline partner page that its loyalty partnership with Hawaiian Airlines will be ending on June 30. This is no surprise, but it would seemingly put a little hole in Deltaʻs…
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Cranky on the Web: Finding Domestic Widebodies
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Want to fly in a fancy seat for less? Try this hack. | Cruising Altitude – USA TodayI hate how click-baity this headline is, but if you can get beyond it… this is a look…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Allegiant Seeks a Buyer, Duffy Seeks Old Times
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Turns Out Running a Beach Hotel is Less Profitable Than Running a 2x Weekly Beach Flight In the least surprising plot twist since it connected Bismarck with Las Vegas, Allegiant is reportedly in talks to…
