Recent Articles
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The Cranky Flier Interview: Denver Air Connection’s Jon Coleman
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I was debating whether to publish this as a “Who the F*&# is” post or a Cranky Flier Interview, but after hearing Jon talk about…
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Cranky on the Web: Rising Fares, New Rules on Buying Tickets, and Fight on a Flight
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Rising Fares, Low-Cost Airlines: Navigating the New Reality in the Sky – The New York TimesThe Frugal Traveler looks at airfares and where they’re going.…
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Breeze To Buy JetBlue, Restore Neeleman to Power
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After an earlier attempt to acquire Avelo and aha! to create the super ULCC bravaha! fell through, Breeze has now moved on to a bigger…
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The Next Phase of LAX Terminal 3: Come for the View, Stay for the Flight
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With the pandemic lull in air travel, Delta decided it was a great time to speed up its construction projects. And so, more than a…
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Alaska Always Wanted to Simplify Its Fleet, Now It Has Another Reason
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Alaska Airlines has long loved to stretch the truth about its fleet simplicity, but only just a bit. The Virgin America merger made that a…
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A New Cranky Talk is Live – Dave Flew Spirit!
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Cranky Talk – Dave Flew Spirit! People love reading trip reports, but do they love listening to them? We are about to find out. Dave…
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Cranky on the Web: How Oil Affects Fares
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How rising fuel and strong demand could affect airfares – Travel WeeklyI went on The Folo podcast by Travel Weekly to talk about what really…
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3 Links I Love: China Eastern Crash, Mexico City’s Empty Airport, Flybe is Back
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This Week’s Featured Link China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashes en route to Guangzhou – Flightradar24This descent rate is… well, it’s just not something that…
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Southwest’s New “Wanna Get Away Plus” Fare Caps a Long Shift in the Airline’s Fare Structure
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Southwest has been teasing us for a little while now with promises of a new fare family to fit between its lowest Wanna Get Away…
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A Look at the Growth of ULCCs in Maps
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Some days, I like to sit around and dream up the kind of data I can pull from Cirium. I’m only slightly ashamed to admit…
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Lufthansa Plans Another End Run Around Labor With New Regional Subsidiary
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Over the last several years, Lufthansa Group has felt like a creation by Dr Frankenstein — pronounced FRONK-en-steen, of course. It has cobbled together seemingly…
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Cranky on the Web: The Mask Mandate Should Go
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US mask mandates are going away … what’s next? – TPGI was asked about the changes in mask mandates, and I was surprised to see…
