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The Quiet Genius of ICAO Airport Codes
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I usually have a couple of these kinds of evergreen posts ready to go in case I’m not able to finish a more newsy post in time, so, here we are…. I’ll have the currently-unfinished…
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Blame the Design of Midway Airport for Southwest’s Holiday Struggles
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Happy 2024 everybody! If you flew this holiday season, you probably had nothing go wrong at all. That was the case for nearly everyone… except for those who flew Southwest to and from Chicago’s Midway Airport just…
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Airlines We Lost 2023
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Where does the time go? It is the last post of the year, and that means it’s time to honor those airlines that didn’t quite make it to see 2024. After last year’s relatively anemic list,…
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Reviewing Your 2023 Predictions and Making Your 2024 Picks
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It’s the most wonderul time of the year… when we get to go over all your predictions from last year and see how you did. Of course, we need to remember that when you all wrote…
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Cranky on the Web: Southwest’s Customer of Size Policy
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No, Southwest Airlines’ ‘customer of size’ policy isn’t new – VerifyThis was a weird one that came out of left field. Why was everyone freaking out over a policy that’s been around for awhile? I have no…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Good News for Southwest, Bad News for Southwest, Alaska Raises its Baggage Fee
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Good News: Southwest Finds Labor Peace in the Cockpit Southwest Airlines and its pilots’ union finally have come to a preliminary agreement, ending several months of back-and-forth negotiations between the two and increasingly frequent threats…
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2023 Flying Summary
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I’m done for the year, so might as well get this party started. Another year, another weird-looking map. The multiple short haul trips are somewhat obscured by the Atlanta and Kahului runs. Miles: 15,721 (13,167 last year)Segments:…
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Hawaiian’s Five-Year Downhill Slide Led it Right Into Alaska’s Arms
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Alaska’s decision to buy Hawaiian Airlines and save it from a bankruptcy filing — or worse — was not something that happened overnight. Over the last five years, Hawaiian has gone through some of the most…
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With American Freeing Up Space, Delta Makes a Different Kind of Move on Austin
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Delta has called Austin a “focus city” for years now, but it doesn’t really have much to show for it. That appears to be changing as Delta has announced plans to grow its presence by 20…
