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• This Week on BNET (Feb 16 - 20)

  Delta Starts Consolidating Regional Carriers Delta is taking pieces of Compass, Comair, and Mesaba and mashing them together. Seems like a good idea to me. Why is Hawaiian Installing In-Seat Video? Hawaiian is putting in seat video on its long haul fleet... Posted Feb 21 2009, 03:50 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Delta, Frontier, Go!, Government Regulation, Hawaiian, Inflight Entertainment, LAX - Los Angeles, Mergers/Finance, Mesa Airlines, Mesaba, Mokulele

• This Week on BNET (Jan 12 - 16)

  Airlines Successfully Test Biofuels in Droves Air New Zealand and Continental have both recently tested jatropha on actual flights, and the results have been extremely promising. Alaska and Horizon Says December Storms to Cost Up to $13 Million Those... Posted Jan 17 2009, 03:31 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, BNET, Continental, DCA - Washington/National, Delta, Fuel, Horizon, LGA - New York/La Guardia, Mesa Airlines, Southwest

• This Week on BNET (Jan 5 - 9)

  Frontier’s November Results Not as Positive as They May Seem Frontier issued its monthly operating statement for November over the holidays. The results looked great on the surface, but as usual, it’s not always as it seems. December Traffic Looks... Posted Jan 10 2009, 03:12 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: AirTran, BNET, Continental, Delta, Frontier, Mergers/Finance, Mesa Airlines, Northwest, Technology

• This Week on BNET Travel (June 30 - July 3)

  I know I mentioned it before, but I thought it worth mentioning again that I’m now the airline blogger for BNET. My posts on Cranky are primarily focused on the frequent (or not so frequent) flier, but over on BNET, I get into more on airline management... Posted Jul 04 2008, 02:43 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Allegiant, BNET, Frontier, Mesa Airlines, Midwest Airlines

• Bloggers Under Fire

  I meant to write about Holly Hegeman’s fight against Mesa Air Group a long time ago, but I admittedly got sidetracked. The recent dust-up between Eclipse Aviation and the Eclipse Aviation Critic NG blog (listen to a podcast on the subject), reminded... Posted May 01 2008, 03:44 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Mesa Airlines