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Cranky on the Web (April 8 – 12)

How to Avoid an In-Flight Entertainment Incident on United – Perrin Post on Conde Nast Wendy asked me which flights on United had inflight entertainment, so I gave her the best way to figure it out (though it’s not completely fool-proof)....

Published Sat, Apr 13 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: United
Topic of the Week: Porter and the C Series

Jon Ostrower broke the news that Porter up in Canada had decided to order the Bombardier CS100 jet. Much to my surprise, the plan is to fly the airplane out of Toronto’s City Centre airport with it’s extremely short 4,000 foot runway. What...

Published Fri, Apr 12 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Bombardier
Four Hidden Pieces of History at LAX

Thanks to Chris Sloan of Airchive, I recently had the chance to take a couple hour tour around the grounds at Los Angeles International Airport. I’ve spent a ton of time at LAX ever since I was young, but I was amazed that I learned a couple of...

Published Thu, Apr 11 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: LAX - Los Angeles, Continental, Western Airlines
Does JetBlue’s Northeast-Florida Strategy Make Sense, and What About Worcester? (Ask Cranky)

We have a two part Ask Cranky today. To be honest, I wasn’t going to address this on the blog, but I was surprised at the number of people asking similar questions. So it seemed like something that you all wanted to talk about. This question comes...

Published Tue, Apr 9 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Ask Cranky
The Rise of the 50 Seat Regional Jet

I realize the title of this post probably has a lot of you scratching your heads. The 50 seat regional jet is dead, right? Delta and United are shedding them as quickly as possible in favor of larger 66-76 seat jets, and nobody seems to want the little...

Published Mon, Apr 8 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Bombardier, CRJ
Cranky on the Web (April 1 – 5)

Doug Parker Decides ‘Small is Beautiful’ – Doesn’t Want AA-US Merger After Livery Concerns – Gadling Another April Fools’ post from me. This time, it’s about the end of the US Airways/American merger. Samoa Air’s...

Published Sat, Apr 6 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: US Airways, Mergers/Finance, American
Topic of the Week: Do You Feel Safe Flying into an Airport Without a Tower?

As the government continues to fail to do anything about the sequester cuts, the time has come to start closing control towers this weekend. Though these are mostly smaller airports, there are some with commercial service. I haven’t heard anything...

Published Fri, Apr 5 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Frontier
Allegiant Slashes Hawai’i Flying This Fall, and It Shouldn’t be a Surprise

The only thing I’d heard surrounding Allegiant’s Hawai’i flying recently was regarding mechanical problems impacting half the 757 fleet. That caused a bunch of cancellations but it didn’t indicate anything about how well or how...

Published Thu, Apr 4 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Allegiant
Argentina Earns the Cranky Jackass Award for Propping Up Aerolineas Argentinas at the Expense of Real Competition

There have been so many good news stories about aviation in Latin America lately that it seems like everything is going well. The LAN and TAM merger created a powerhouse, the Avianca/TACA merger is also coming together quite nicely, and then of course...

Published Tue, Apr 2 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Cranky Jackass, LAN, Aerolineas Argentinas
Virgin America Announces Plan to Rebrand as Alitalia America

This one certainly came out of left field, but I think it’s a great move. Virgin America announced today that it has decided to rebrand as Alitalia America on June 1. Further, Richard Branson will sell his 25 percent stake in the airline to Italian...

Published Mon, Apr 1 2013 11:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Virgin America, Alitalia
Cranky on the Web (March 25 – 29)

Southwest Airlines: We’re Not Really About Cheap Flights Anymore – Time I spoke with Brad Tuttle at Time as a follow-up to my column about Southwest’s new ad campaign. Critics: United frequent-flier lawsuit is ‘absurd’ –...

Published Sat, Mar 30 2013 10:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: United, Frequent Flier Programs, Southwest
Topic of the Week: Lufthansa Thinking About Long Haul, Low Cost Carrier

It looks like Lufthansa is batting around the idea of starting up a long haul low cost carrier. *sigh* This has never worked before, but apparently Lufthansa wants to try it again. What do you think? Any chance this works Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 29 2013 10:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Lufthansa
The View is Getting Better at JFK’s T4 – Behind the Scenes of Delta’s Expansion (Guest Post)

Anyone flown through Terminal 3 at JFK on Delta lately? Fortunately, that miserable experience is soon coming to an end with the opening of Delta’s new Terminal 4 expansion in May. Justin Harrison works with SmartFlyer, a travel agency in New York...

Published Thu, Mar 28 2013 10:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: Delta, Guest Posts, JFK - New York/JFK
Can Wifi Really Be a Differentiator for JetBlue?

When JetBlue first launched, it used inflight entertainment as one of the greatest initial product differentiators of all time, and now it’s trying to do it again with a new breed of wifi. Is this really going to have the same impact? I’m...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 10:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: JetBlue
And Now For a Really Stupid Lawsuit

I received a request from Janet Cho at the Cleveland Plain Dealer to comment on a story last week about a man suing United for the way the airline awards miles. This lawsuit got me so worked up, that I decided to talk about it here on the blog. Hongbo...

Published Mon, Mar 25 2013 10:45 AM by The Cranky Flier

Filed under: United, Frequent Flier Programs

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