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  • Alaska Leans Into Its Oneworld Partnership With New Routes

    Are You Leaving Cash on the Table?Missing out on credit card rewards is enough to make anyone cranky. GigaPoints analyzes your spending to recommend the credit card that will earn you the most points, miles, or cash back. We use data, not…

  • How Hawaiian’s Commercial Team Tackled the Pandemic as It Unfolded (Across the Aisle)

    I’ve got a real treat for you today, so hopefully you can spare the time to read through what ended up being quite the lengthy interview. Brent Overbeek runs network planning and revenue management for Hawaiian, so while I was…

  • Introducing Cranky Network Weekly With a Free Preview Through 2020

    The weekly Skeds of air Lines posts have become reader favorites, but they merely scratch the surface of WHY important network moves are being made in a competitive context. For that reason, I’ve teamed up with Courtney Miller of Visual…

  • Delta Looks Ahead, American Hibernates, and JetBlue Reverses Again

    It was a rather interesting week for our friends in Airlineville. As Thanksgiving rapidly approaches, the residents made final preparations. For the Globe, it was good news while the opposite was true for Ms. Blue. She just can’t make up…

  • A December Tidal Wave of Changes

    There was a tsunami this week in Airlineville. The Eagle, Pualani, Ms Blue, the Taxi, and the Globe all flooded the market with December changes as they prepare for the holidays. As if that wasn’t enough, the Heart took a…

  • Southwest’s New Cities Fit Neatly Into a Hub Strategy

    For an airline that hasn’t rolled out many new cities in some time, Southwest sure is active these days. While I was traveling last week, Southwest announced Savannah, Jackson (MS), and Colorado Springs. Then just yesterday, it published schedules for…

  • Who the F*&@ Is EGO Airways?

    Get ready for something weird. The latest entry in the “Who the F*&@ is” series is actually an airline with an idea I don’t hate… and it’s Italian. This airline appears to be focused on taking advantage of Alitalia’s stupidity,…

  • United’s 2021 Plan: Leisure and Modified 787s for Ultra Long-Haul

    Tuesday was a productive day until 11:30am when United posted a teaser video in advance of its big 2021 international route announcement. Within minutes I was on a call with a couple of friends, picking apart the video, freezing frames,…

  • A Look At Changing Regional Alliances: United (Part 3)

    It’s the last day of my vacation, and I’m going to bet that after a week in an RV, I’m ready to be home. So today, I’ll finish up my look at regional alliances over the past 15 years. American…

  • After Years of Making Life Difficult, Virgin Australia Simplifies

    Twenty years ago when Virgin Blue launched, it had a simple mission. The airline was built to bring low fares to a continent where few were to be found. Since that time, the airline — which is now known as…

  • A New Cranky Talk Is Live: How Airlines Choose Where to Fly

    Cranky Talk: How airlines pick their routes! Cranky Talk is back again, and this week, we’ve put together a look at how airlines decide where to fly. Of course, they use data, but there are several tricks of the trade…

  • American Becomes Instantly Relevant in New York With JetBlue Strategic Partnership

    Sorry for the tease in today’s earlier post, but these became public at different times, so I decided to go with a rare double post. Today, American and JetBlue are creating a strategic partnership in the same vein as the…