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It’s Travvy Time

It’s amazing how fast time flies. It was a year ago that the inaugural Travvies were handed out, and I was fortunate enough to receive a pair - Best Single Author Blog and Best Informative/Practical Travel Blog. Today, nominations for the 2008 awards...

Published Mon, Mar 24 2008 11:33 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Miscellaneous
Be Careful Before Deciding Southwest Was Unsafe

This is definitely the hot topic of the last couple days, and I must admit I’m still trying to sort it all out. This is what I’ve put together so far (with the help of some good reporting from the Dallas Morning News). Back in 2004, the FAA...

Published Fri, Mar 7 2008 4:46 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Safety/Security, Southwest
Singapore’s No-Win Decision to Go All Business Class on Ultra Long Haul

I was going to follow up yesterday’s post with some more detailed notes from the US Airways Media Day, but then I figured you guys are probably sick of hearing about it. Maybe I’ll post it in the next couple of days. Instead, let’s talk...

Published Tue, Mar 4 2008 4:01 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Singapore Airlines, Seats
London/Heathrow Gets Ready to Play Musical Airlines

There has been a ton of interesting news to write about in the last few days, and I’d been having trouble figuring out with what to lead . . . until yesterday. Turns out that I was voted one of the the world’s 50 most powerful blogs by The...

Published Mon, Mar 10 2008 3:59 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: SkyTeam, Star Alliance, Oneworld, British Airways, LHR - London/Heathrow
Virgin America Buy 2 Get 1 Free?!

It appears that Virgin America is getting desperate. Repeat after me . . . MUST-RAISE-CASH. A friend forwarded me an email that was apparently sent to at least some of Virgin America’s eleVAte frequent flier program members. I’m not sure how...

Published Tue, Mar 11 2008 2:36 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Virgin America
SAS and Bombardier Settle Over the Q400

At the end of October, I asked whether Bombardier and SAS should kiss and make up over their differences. Yeah, sure there were three Q400 landing gear issues in two months, but what’s a little malfunction between friends? Fortunately, that’s...

Published Wed, Mar 12 2008 2:42 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: SAS, Q400
A Little More From US Airways

Ok, as requested (by at least one person), here are the rest of my notes from US Airways Media Day. I could try to make it all nice and pretty, but nah I’ll just try to make them legible and let you do the rest. These were taken in order during...

Published Thu, Mar 6 2008 3:41 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Baggage, US Airways, Airport Experience, Schedule Changes, Government Regulation, Mergers/Finance, Inflight Entertainment
Southwest Checks for Cracks

I’m not going to spend too much time talking about what happened today, because it’s been covered by just about everyone. (I should say overdramatized by just about everyone.) In short, Southwest had to take 38 planes out of service to perform...

Published Thu, Mar 13 2008 4:04 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Safety/Security, Government Regulation, Southwest
Continental’s Not Here to Start No Trouble . . .

. . . they’re just here to do the terminal shuffle. Ok, maybe that joke is about 20 years too late, but someone out there will get it. Anyway, thanks to Today in the Sky for pointing out that Continental has announced that they’ll be doing...

Published Wed, Mar 5 2008 3:43 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Continental
Amazingly Low Gas Prices

I saw this on reddit this morning just had to laugh. You might remember when this accident happened: 8 years ago today. The Southwest flight from Vegas overran the runway at Burbank and ended up right next to this gas station, and THIS is what we take...

Published Wed, Mar 5 2008 5:12 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Southwest, Accidents/Incidents

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