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Benet Wilson on Security Fun

So the Cranky Flier is off on some boondoggle. But rather than give you, his loyal readers, a few days off from his pearls of wisdom on the aviation industry, he called on some of his few friends to fill in as guest bloggers. In my day job, I’m the editrix...

Published Wed, Apr 30 2008 3:40 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Safety/Security
Horizon to Go All Q400 and Other Interesting Alaska Notes

There were a couple of interesting things to come out of Alaska Air Group’s first quarter earnings last week. The most interesting item? Horizon will drop all of its 20 CRJ-700 aircraft in the next 2 years. That combined with the previously announced...

Published Tue, Apr 29 2008 3:38 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Alaska Airlines, Horizon
SkyWest and Continental Put the Screws to ExpressJet

An interesting little merger attempt popped up on Friday that, as Holly Hegeman says, looks like a squeeze play. SkyWest has announced that it wants to buy ExpressJet for $3.50 a share. The airline was hovering just over the $2 a share mark before the...

Published Mon, Apr 28 2008 3:34 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Continental, Mergers/Finance, ExpressJet, SkyWest
Hitting the Road

Those of you who have been reading Cranky for awhile will remember back in October I asked which airline I should fly to Peru for a trip in the seemingly distant future. Well guess what? It’s time for that trip. A whopping 59% of you said you’d...

Published Fri, Apr 25 2008 4:10 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Admin
Southwest Continues to Grow in Denver, Frontier Pees Its Pants

Poor Frontier. When they look out their windows, they must see Canyon Blue-colored vultures circling the premises. There’s no question that Southwest is going in for the kill. This week, Southwest said it would once again pump up its Denver flying...

Published Thu, Apr 24 2008 3:46 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Frontier, Southwest, DEN - Denver
DOT Doubles Compensation for Bumping, Some People Won’t be Happy

I know this happened last week, but I haven’t had the chance to write about it until now. The DOT announced that it was going to increase the compensation for passengers who are involuntarily denied boarding. Is this a big deal? Well it could be...

Published Wed, Apr 23 2008 3:49 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Overbooking
Southwest’s Crazy Eagle Airplane Porn

It’s been awhile since I put up some good airplane porn, huh? Well, let’s break that streak. Southwest has a long history of painting airplanes to look like the state flags of its biggest operation locations. Texas, Arizona, and California...

Published Tue, Apr 22 2008 3:41 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Southwest, Airplane Porn
Trip Report: Flying Virgin America

Back in early March, I decided it was time to fly Virgin America. Now you know that I’ve been critical of the airline, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t want to give them a try. So when I saw that fares up to San Francisco were running...

Published Mon, Apr 21 2008 4:19 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Virgin America, Trip Reports
Alitalia’s LAX Reception

I know you guys have been champing at the bit, waiting for an update on the latest with Alitalia. I’ve actually been wanting to write about this for a little while, but I figured I’d wait until I went to last night’s launch party at...

Published Fri, Apr 18 2008 4:12 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: LAX - Los Angeles, Mergers/Finance, Alitalia, KLM, Air France
US Airways Choice Seats Not as Bad as You Think

Another day, another dollar . . . of ancillary revenue that US Airways is hoping to get out of you. While you’re likely to hear the usual chorus of “boo’s” from the peanut gallery, this isn’t really a bad move for the airline...

Published Thu, Apr 17 2008 4:05 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: US Airways
MAXjet Returns . . . Sort Of

Yes, it’s true. A reader alerted me to the fact that, as the website says, “MAX is back.” Don’t get too excited though. The airline is coming back as a charter carrier focused on NCAA sports travel, so you probably won’t...

Published Wed, Apr 16 2008 4:36 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: MAXjet
Delta and Northwest Announce Merger: It’s About F*@king Time

It’s on like Donkey Kong. Yesterday, Northwest and Delta finally announced that they would merge. This of course follows speculation that began back in 1932 when C.E. Woolman and Lewis Brittin first discussed such a possibility. Now, before I go...

Published Tue, Apr 15 2008 3:53 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Mergers/Finance, Delta, Northwest
Find More From Me at BNET Travel

Raise your hand if you wish you could read more of what I have to say. For the two of you who actually raised your hand, you might need to seek some professional help. If not, you’ll be happy to know that in addition to Cranky, I’m now going...

Published Mon, Apr 14 2008 3:49 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Admin
Screw It - Let’s Lighten Things Up with the Playmobil Security Checkpoint

It’s been a heck of a week. Nice of Frontier to cap it off with a Chapter 11 filing last night, huh? I’m a little nervous about this one. They say they filed because the credit card processor increased the holdback significantly. It’s...

Published Fri, Apr 11 2008 3:43 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Frontier, Mergers/Finance
Don’t Blame the MD-80 For This Mess

There’s no question that American has done an absolutely terrible job of managing the latest round of MD-80 maintenance issues from a PR perspective. It’s been so bad, that I’ve seen articles start to question the MD-80 as an airplane...

Published Thu, Apr 10 2008 3:55 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Safety/Security, MD80, American

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