After last year’s Cranky Dorkfest, I headed over to The Proud Bird to relax and […] | Continue reading
It has been a long road for Hawaiian to figure out how to replace (er, […] | Continue reading
It has actually happened. Avelo made money. Well, at least, it made a pre-tax profit […] | Continue reading
JetBlue, Spirit Agree to See Other People The long romance is finally over as JetBlue […] | Continue reading
I already tackled the commercial strategy laid out in American’s investor presentation from earlier this […] | Continue reading
American Airlines held its first investor day in years yesterday, and while several execs did […] | Continue reading
When the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced it would end the antitrust immunity (ATI) given […] | Continue reading
Q&A: 1-on-1 with Southwest COO Andrew Watterson – Blue Sky NewsPittsburgh airport’s news site was […] | Continue reading
JetBlue, Spirit Forge Ahead JetBlue and Spirit will continue to grasp at straws appeal their […] | Continue reading
Last week I put on the 2024 Cranky Network Awards presented by Oakland International Airport […] | Continue reading
It was a surreal moment on Thursday night. We were frantically preparing for the start […] | Continue reading
It is no secret that American wants everyone to book directly with the airline. It […] | Continue reading
Airlines ConfidentialI sat down with Ben Baldanza and Scott McCartney on their podcast to talk […] | Continue reading
Welcome back to the second part of Carl Icahn week. I wrote about what Icahn […] | Continue reading
Let’s call this Carl Icahn week here at Cranky. This Thursday is the fourth annual […] | Continue reading
JetBlue resets with new CEO, industry veterans to run airline on time, and profitably – […] | Continue reading
Icahn’s Big Blue Gamble JetBlue stock shot up this week when former TWA executive Carl […] | Continue reading
Sometime in the spring of 1988, the last Delta Connection puddle jumper departed Lakeland, Florida […] | Continue reading
To the surprise of nobody, Spirit lost a bunch more money in the fourth quarter […] | Continue reading
I looked at the awful Q3 results for Orlando last week, and this week it’s […] | Continue reading
Lower fares, fewer flights: How the closure of United’s hub in Cleveland has altered air […] | Continue reading
Spirit Ends Tumultuous Year in the Red Spirit Airlines’s 2023 Earnings Report revealed that 2023 […] | Continue reading
Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Back in 2022 when Andrew […] | Continue reading
We heard last year all about the struggles in the ultra low cost carrier (ULCC) […] | Continue reading
There’s a good chance you missed it, but in SkyWest’s earnings release this week, the […] | Continue reading
How right-wing influencers turned airplanes and airports into culture war battlegrounds – NBC NewsThe fact […] | Continue reading
JetBlue, Spirit File Appeal The lawyers for JetBlue and Spirit, realizing their gravy train might […] | Continue reading
JetBlue has spent much of the last couple years hoping that others would solve its […] | Continue reading
As you know, I almost never allow guest posts on the site, but that doesn’t […] | Continue reading
In a scathing smack-down of Mexican government policies, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) has […] | Continue reading
FAA Opens Door to MAX 9 to Return The FAA established the process for the […] | Continue reading
Frontier made quite the splash this week when it rolled out a whopping 54 new […] | Continue reading
Say what you will about Mesa — and there is plenty that has been said […] | Continue reading
JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes recently announced that he would step down on February 12 after […] | Continue reading
JetBlue’s Deflated Spirit When U.S. District Judge William Young ended the merger of JetBlue and […] | Continue reading
I’ve moved up my usual Thursday post to Wednesday instead… since there was no reason […] | Continue reading
Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. It has finally happened. I […] | Continue reading
It’s a holiday, so I normally wouldn’t post today. But I have a backup of things […] | Continue reading
FAA’s MAX 9 Investigation Begins The FAA opened its formal investigation into the incident on […] | Continue reading
Listen on Apple, Spotify, direct, or wherever you get your podcasts. Airplanes having problems? Seems like […] | Continue reading
It’s that time of year again. When the calendar turns over, that means it’s time to […] | Continue reading
One of the best things about the coming Cranky Network Awards on Feb 22 in […] | Continue reading
What a week it’s been in the airline industry. First there was the Japan Airlines A350 […] | Continue reading
United Submits First Plans for Denver Site United Airlines plans to have the first facility […] | Continue reading
I usually have a couple of these kinds of evergreen posts ready to go in […] | Continue reading
Happy 2024 everybody! If you flew this holiday season, you probably had nothing go wrong at […] | Continue reading
Where does the time go? It is the last post of the year, and that means […] | Continue reading
It’s the most wonderul time of the year… when we get to go over all […] | Continue reading