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Mesa Files Bankruptcy, Looks to Shrink By Nearly Half
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Mesa Air Group has finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a very long downhill slide. I imagine that there’s not a single person in the airline industry surprised by this move. What does this…
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2009 Was a Very Safe Year for Air Travel
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I don’t like to dwell on these end-of-year facts and figures too often, but sometimes I think it’s worth pausing to take a look. For example, let’s take a look at airline safety in 2009.…
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What’s the Deal with Premium Economy? (Ask Cranky)
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Happy New Year, everyone. I’ve been looking through my old drafts, and I realized there were a couple of posts that never got published last year, and here’s one of them. It’s an Ask Cranky…
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Cranky on the Web (December 28 – January 1)
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Delta Air Lines’ New York Chief Explains How They’ll Win New York – BNET I keep hearing that Delta wants to “win” New York, so I had to find out what the heck that meant.…
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Airlines We Lost in 2009
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Long time readers of the blog know that I have a little tradition here as each year comes to a close. I like to honor (or roast) those airlines that were flying at the beginning…
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A First Class Experience on American Airlines (Trip Report)
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As usual, we had a fun but short weekend in Indianapolis. After having my fill of good food and hanging out with the inlaws, I was ready to head back. I actually was looking forward…
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Finally Flying Midwest, er Frontier, er Chautauqua (Trip Report)
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It seems like I’ve been trying to fly Midwest for years. When I was in school in DC in the ’90s, I always wanted to fly the airline that had fancy seats and delicious meals.…
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New TSA Rules Actually Make the Liquid Rule Look Rational
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I’m back home from my holiday trip, and I have my trip report ready to go, but then someone tried to blow up a Northwest flight into Detroit and the TSA jumped into action. I…
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Cranky on the Web (December 21 – 25)
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New York Snowstorm Sees Delta Start Canceling Earlier Than JetBlue, American – BNET You may have been stranded but from an operational perspective, the airlines did pretty well at JFK during this major snowstorm. US…
