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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: TSA, AA Want Your Money
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When TSA Stops Being Polite and Starts Getting REAL The FAA, DOT, and TSA finally implemented their REAL ID requirements in May after literal decades of missed timelines, pushed back deadlines, and overall confusion over…
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Flybondi Starts Its New Lease on Life With a Strange Aircraft Order
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Argentina is an awful market for airlines — there is really no other way to look at it historically — but that hasn’t stopped some brave souls from trying their hand at making a living.…
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Cleveland’s Wild Airport Terminal Plan
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After writing up Pittsburgh’s new terminal, I decided it would be fun to look at other former hubs to see just how they’ve been handled. None is stranger than Cleveland’s plan called CLEvolution. Many of…
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Southwest Stakes Its Claim in San Diego With New Flights
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If you live in San Diego, you are a happy camper right now. Alaska and Southwest both continue to aggressively add new flights as they look to get a leg up as the most important…
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Allegiant Takes the Redneck Riviera Into Alabama
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There are some places on my bucket list to visit before I die, and then there are other places which I have absolutely no desire to visit at all. The Redneck Riviera falls into the…
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United Cuts Flights As Pratt Problems Mount
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You may have heard that United has decided not to fly Washington/Dulles – Dakar and Newark – Stockholm next year. Many have assumed that this is due to weak demand, but that doesn’t appear to…
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Cranky on the Web: Holiday Travel and What’s Wrong with Delta
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Bay Area airports prep for busy holiday travel as uncertainties loom – Mercury NewsIt’s time for holiday travel, and that means a blur of requests to discuss travel tips… but not this one. This was…
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Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Europe Gets the (Jet)Blues, Allegiant Adds
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JetBlue Adds Two to Europe JetBlue Airways announced two new European destinations on Wednesday, adding service from Boston to both Barcelona and Milan/Malpensa. The flights will be daily for the summer, and will connect JetBlue’s…
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Spirit Learns That Bankruptcy and Concern of Imminent Failure Aren’t Good for Business
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September has always been a bad month for leisure airlines. That’s the first full month after kids are back in school, and it’s when almost nobody is flying to the disgustly-swampy, occassionally-hurricaney land of Florida.…
