Cranky Flier
United To Take Chicago by Force, Will Hit 750 Peak Day Departures
The War Between American and United Continues to Escalate
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: American Continues Quest for Chicago, United’s Very Profitable Year
Delta Keeps Getting Bigger With B787-10 Order
United’s Hiring of Former American CCO Is Wise, Not Spite
Cranky on the Web: More Hubs Aren’t Coming to the US
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Allegiant Shifts Focus from Sunseeker to Sun Country, Delta’s 2025 Was Cash Friendly
Announcing the 2026 Cranky Network Award Nominations
Avelo Pivots Again, This Time Toward a Single Strategy
Allegiant to Buy Sun Country and I’m Not Sure Why
Cranky on the Web: More Hubs Aren’t Coming to the US
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Alaska Adds, Avelo Subtracts
American Will Battle United to the Death in Chicago
American Makes a Bet That Customers Won’t Hate and May Actually Prefer Longer Trips
American Prioritizes Operational Improvement With DFW Hub Changes
Airlines We Lost 2025
Reviewing Your 2025 Predictions and Making Your 2026 Picks
2025 Flying Summary
Spirit’s November Data Is Here and It Ain’t Pretty
Viva and Volaris Propose a Merger of Equals to Dominate México
Glen’s Gotta Go and Delta Will Feel the Blow
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Frontier, Delta See Leadership Changes
Elliott Starts to Sell Its Southwest Stake
A New Leader Takes Over Cranky Concierge at the End of the Year
The Incredible Shrinking MEM
Pegasus Looks Beyond Türkiye with Czech Purchase
Cranky on the Web: Indian Dreams and Field Hockey
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: AA Goes Holiday Shopping, JetBlue Enters its Lounge Era
Spirit’s October Was Better Than September, But It Was Still Very Bad
Indianpolis Built Its Terminal Further Away, but Columbus is Getting Closer
Southwest Confirms That Things are Firmly Heading in the Right Direction (Financially, At Least)
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: TSA, AA Want Your Money
Flybondi Starts Its New Lease on Life With a Strange Aircraft Order
Cleveland’s Wild Airport Terminal Plan
Southwest Stakes Its Claim in San Diego With New Flights
Allegiant Takes the Redneck Riviera Into Alabama
United Cuts Flights As Pratt Problems Mount
Cranky on the Web: Holiday Travel and What’s Wrong with Delta
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Europe Gets the (Jet)Blues, Allegiant Adds
Spirit Learns That Bankruptcy and Concern of Imminent Failure Aren’t Good for Business
Pittsburgh Leaves Its Hub Past Behind With the New Terminal That Opens Today
What Exactly Is Avelo’s Network Strategy?
Cranky on the Web: The End of the Shutdown But Trouble Remains
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: The Shutdown is Shut Down, When a Window Seat Doesn’t Require a Window
Across the Aisle From Joe Sprague As He Retires from Alaska Air Group as CEO of Hawaiian Airlines
After Further Review, Frontier Did Not Have a Great Q2
American Starts Its XLR Adventure Across the Pond with Edinburgh
Cranky on the Web: FAA Flight Cut Madness, Oh, and Cleveland
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Capacity Restrictions, Spirit Shrinks
Feds Announce Massive, Haphazard Cuts in Air Service Starting Tomorrow, and We Should All Be Angry
Narita’s Fortunes Improve as Godzilla Heads to Haneda
United Goes in for the Kill in San Francisco
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: DOT Slashes Mexico Service, Southwest Execs Seen Shopping for Loungewear
Good Riddance, Southwest’s Open Seating (Trip Report)
I Will Miss Southwest’s Open Seating (Trip Report)
2026 is Alaska’s Year of San Diego and Portland… at the Expense of LA and San Francisco
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Earnings and New Route Announcements Abound
Seattle’s Second Terminal Gets Closer to a Green Light
The LAX Terminal Shuffle Begins Again as Terminal 5 Prepares to Shut Down
Ask Cranky: Is Southwest Overbooking Again?
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: United Earnings, Spirit Continues to Shrink
Cranky Dorkfest 2026 Will Be September 19
Five Takeaways From Q2 Data
Southwest Enters Its Leisure Era
Cranky on the Web: Switching Seats, More Dorkiness
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: United Newest Eurotrip, Delta’s Strong Summer
United Puts the MAX to Work on New Europe Flying
Get Excited for The 2026 Cranky Network Awards
Dallas/Love Field Seems to be Preparing for a Very Unlikely Expansion
Spirit Shrinks By More Than Half, May Have Hope of Survival
Cranky on the Web: Chicago Gates, Alaska Loyalty, and More Dorkfest
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Southwest’s Last Frontier, Spirit Gets Some Help
Lufthansa Group Is Working on Another Turnaround
JSX Turboprop Plans Begin to Come Out
United’s Confusing Messaging on Newark Can’t Hide the Truth
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit’s Furloughs, Breeze Goes Global
American’s Operation Had a Very Rough Summer
Allegiant Leaves LAX And Barely Tries to Replace It
Breeze Posts Its First Profit While Avelo Crawls Back From the Depths of Despair
Cranky on the Web: Spirit in South Florida, A Poor Cranky Dorkfest Article
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: DOT Says Sayonara to DL/AM JV, Spirit’s Spiral Rolls On
JetBlue Makes Its Move in Fort Lauderdale
Scott Kirby Looks Ahead on How to Compete on the Global Stage, Probably with Government Help
Avelo is Resurrected as Cash and Airplanes Flow In
Thank You for Coming to Cranky Dorkfest 2025
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: JetBlue Adds in Fort Lauderdale, Avelo Adds Airplanes
Honoring the Flight Crews That Died 24 Years Ago Today
Final Cranky Dorkfest Details and a Reminder to Sign Up for Your Raffle Ticket
Spirit All But Abandons the West
Spirit Reverses Most of Its Recent Network Experiments
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit Retreats, Fires Back at United
México Starts to Crack Under US Pressure
Spirit is Bankrupt Again, But Will It Survive?
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Froniter’s Spirited Route Expansion, Mexico City Returns its Slots Over the Wall
Frontier Won’t Achieve Its Stated Goal, But What It Really Wants is For Spirit to Die
A Visit to the Memorial for Alaska 261
Austin Growth Highlights Differences Between Cautious Delta and Frenzied American
Cranky on the Web: Spirit’s Trouble
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Alaska Redefines Loyalty, Delta Asks All of Us for Help
Atmos Rewards Pushes the Burden of Elite Status Further on to the Alaska and Hawaiian Customer
RSVPs and T-Shirts for Cranky Dorkfest
Three Big Airlines, Three Very Different Approaches to Long-Haul
Southwest’s Big Schedule Restructure Caters to Connections
Cranky on the Web: Cheap Seats Disappearing, Blocking Middles, Alaska’s Strategy
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Spirit Gasps for Air, Delta’s Mexican JV Does the Same
Spirit’s Survival Hopes Dim After Posting Awful Q2 Results
Alaska Flexes Its Heartland Muscles
American Goes Retro and Opportunistic With 2026 Europe Routes
Cranky Weekly Review presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Alaska, American Grow Across the Pond
Decoding Southwest’s Seat Assignment Pricing
Alaska’s New Paint Job, London Service Point Toward Premium
It is Time to RSVP for Cranky Dorkfest (Yes, You Need to RSVP This Year)
Cranky on the Web: Global Entry Ain’t What It Used to Be, Southwest’s Numbers, Flyadeal Interview
Cranky Weekly Review: JetBlue and United Move Forward, United’s FAs — Not so Much
Flying the Friendly Seas on Kenmore (Trip Report)
Wizz Tries to Fix Itself
Connecting in the US Just Got Easier… On One Route, On American
Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport: Southwest Assigns Date to Assign Seats, AA Does OK on Revenue
A Different Way to Look at the First Quarter