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Cranky on the Web (January 25 – 29)

Premium Air Traffic Change Holds Steady in November, Mid-Haul Flying Rebounding – BNET It’s time for the monthly premium air traffic report. Nothing bad here, but nothing great either. How Air New Zealand Started the Process of Creating a...

Published Sat, Jan 30 2010 3:37 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: JetBlue, Air New Zealand, BNET
Watch Live as I Compete on Aviation Jetpardy

Do you like airplanes? And do you like watching game shows? Do you wish they could be magically combined? Well, you’re in luck. I’ll be participating in the very first Aviation Jetpardy this Sunday at 5p Pacific Time, and you can watch if...

Published Sat, Jan 30 2010 2:53 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Admin
Travel Tools I Love: Great Circle Mapper

Good morning from Long Beach. I made it back from New Zealand yesterday, and I had hoped to have a report on the return along with a review of domestic flying in NZ, but I’m just not ready yet. So, instead I’m rolling out a new feature that...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 3:30 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Travel Tools I Love
UK Airport Fun Facts

Good morning. Assuming we’re on time, I should be making my way toward the California coast as this goes out. I’ll be back home soon, and I’m looking forward to a nice and relaxing weekend. But first, let’s talk UK. I realize this...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 2:38 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: LHR - London/Heathrow
Delta Adds More Lie-Flat Internationally, First Class in Regional Jets

Delta may have lost over $1 billion in 2009, but that’s not stopping them from pushing forward on improving their product offerings. In fact, the day before they announced earnings, they also announced a slew of onboard improvements. I’m glad...

Published Wed, Jan 27 2010 2:56 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Seats, Delta
Exploring Air New Zealand’s New Long Haul Cabin with Beds in Coach

It had been hinted about around the local media here in New Zealand for the last few days, but now its official. If you fly in coach on Air New Zealand, you’ll be able to lie down, well, some of you will. I was at the big reveal of the new interior...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 2:42 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Seats, Air New Zealand
Flying Air New Zealand In Style to Auckland (Trip Report)

Good morning from beautiful Auckland, New Zealand. Don’t ask me what day it is, because I have no idea. This whole international dateline thing still messes me up. Over the weekend, Air New Zealand flew me down here for a big media event today launching...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 2:28 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Air New Zealand, Trip Reports
Cranky on the Web (January 18 – 22)

American Airlines, oneworld Increased Offer to Japan Air Lines May Not Be Enough – BNET American is desperately trying to keep JAL in oneworld, but it’s not looking good. oneworld Alliance Will be Much Weaker if Japan Air Lines Leaves –...

Published Sat, Jan 23 2010 4:19 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Southwest, Accidents/Incidents, American, Delta, JAL, BNET, CRW - Charleston
34 People on US Airways Express Jet in West Virginia Love EMAS

How many of you know what EMAS is? I can guarantee that the 34 people on a US Airways Express jet in Charleston West Virginia now are intimately familiar with it. It prevented them from plunging off a mountain. This mountain. Seriously. EMAS stands for...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 4:12 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Accidents/Incidents, CRW - Charleston
Southwest Explores Change Fees, Bag Fees, and More

As I mentioned yesterday, Southwest has been circulating a survey to a bunch of fliers to try to explore all sorts of ways to make changes to their offerings. This explores change fees, bag fees, standby, Rapid Rewards changes and more. Yesterday we talked...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:51 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Baggage, Southwest, Fares
Southwest Looks at Revamping Rapid Rewards, Adding Same Day Standby Rules

Southwest has been circulating a survey to a bunch of fliers to try to explore all sorts of ways to make changes to their offerings. Fortunately, a thoughtful reader took screenshots of every single page of his survey and sent it over to me. Today and...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 4:05 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Southwest
How You Can Get Airlines to Stop Raising Bag Fees

I feel like I’ve approached this topic before, but in light of the airlines raising bag fees once again to $25 for the first bag and $35 for the second, I thought it was worth revisiting. There are a lot of people complaining about bag fees going...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 3:13 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Baggage
Let’s Celebrate Marlon Green, Ruth Carol Taylor, and Other Pioneering Black People in Commercial Aviation

It’s Martin Luther King Jr Day, so I thought it might be a good time to honor some of the pioneering figures in American commercial aviation. Though Jackie Robinson’s baseball debut in the major leagues is more well-known, there were plenty...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 4:53 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Miscellaneous
My Code of Ethics is Live

Thank you to everyone for your feedback on my proposed code of ethics last week. I was up in the mountains this weekend and it gave me plenty of time to review everything and get my code ready to go. So, point your browser to crankyflier.com/ethics and...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 3:22 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Admin
Cranky on the Web (January 11-15)

US Airways Pilots Infighting Grows Worse by the Day – BNET It appears the US East pilots are tired of fighting the west pilots. Now they’re turning on each other. Unreal. Airline Capacity Cuts Slow in December, Some Carriers See Growth –...

Published Sat, Jan 16 2010 3:21 PM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: United, US Airways, Frontier, Boeing, JAL, BNET, ANA, Republic, 787

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