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American to Bring Back In Seat Video Just As It Finishes Removing the Last One
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American’s transition to a premium airline took another very big step forward today as it has decided to reverse course. Not only will the airline be bringing back in-seat video on the domestic mainline fleet…
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American Takes a “Rare Opportunity” to Shuffle the Deck
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I’m back from vacation, and as tempting as it was to write up my trip report straight away thanks to a 14-hour delay to kick things off, there was news from while I was gone…
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Twenty Cranky Years
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It was twenty years ago today that I logged in at crankyflier.blogspot.com and introduced myself to… well, I guess the few family and friends who knew that I was going to start writing about the…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Air Canada Turns to PE, Delta Bootstraps Its Way to Paris
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Air Canada goes Private Equity Air Canada is selling a 25% stake in its Aeroplan loyalty program to a group of well-intentioned and customer-loving individuals from Blackstone and Canadian pension fund La Caisse for a…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Strong Quarter for Allegiant, FAA Finally Signs Off on MAX
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Allegiant’s Revenue and Profit Was Up Allegiant finally announced its Q2 earnings, and the carrier posted $158 million in EBITDA in its first earnings since the close of its merger with Sun Country on May…
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Flying Crooked Sounds Completely Made Up, But It’s Not
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You probably didn’t know it, but I’ve been on vacation this whole week. I did some pre-programming for you to fill out the week, but, spoiler alert… I’m on vacation next week too. For this…
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The Plan for Dulles is Ambitious and Ridiculous… and It Won’t Happen
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Yesterday I gave you a little history about Washington Dulles International Airport, so you could see why modernization is so important. Modernizing an airport is extremely hard, but this new plan announced by President Trump…
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A Look at Dulles Today Shows Why Action is Needed
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I was torn on whether to write about the new, grand plan to completely remake Washington’s Dulles International Airport (IAD). After all, it is a massive project with a short timeline. That is worth talking…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: JetBlue Earnings, First Class has Never Been More Popular
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JetBlue Reports Decent Earnings JetBlue stock (side note: people at JetBlue can’t like the fact they got beat to the ‘BLUE’ ticker symbol) soared Tuesday as it released its Q2 earnings which exceeded Wall Street…
