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Final Cranky Dorkfest Details and a Reminder to Sign Up for Your Raffle Ticket

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

The US Government Gets Tough on Mexico, and Americans Will Suffer If It Follows Through

A Taste of Elite Status on Alaska (Trip Report)

Cranky on the Web: Shoes On, the Atlanta Mess, Air India Plot Thickens

Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: United Pays its FAs, Delta Dives Into a Crowd

When Avelo Walks Away, Breeze Steps Right In

The First Quarter Was Bad for Many, But None Were Hit as Hard as Avelo

More Flights, Smaller Planes: A Deeper Look at How Transcon Has Evolved

Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Delta Leads Earnings, Shoes Stay On Now

Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Putting the Bay Back in Oakland, Silver Might be Gold Again

Iberia’s Remarkable Transformation Into a Profitable Growth Engine

Spirit Strangely Eliminates a Fare Bundle, Renames the Others

Cranky on the Web: An Air Show Air Show Wrap, The Best and Worst Airports

Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Spirit Strenuously Objects, But it has a First Class Now

Spirit Objects to the United/JetBlue Partnership, Tells DOT to Act

How The B757 Changed the Hawaiian Interisland Market

Delta Loses Its Interisland Partner in Hawaiʻi, And It Has No Options

Cranky on the Web: Finding Domestic Widebodies

Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Allegiant Seeks a Buyer, Duffy Seeks Old Times

Earning Back the Cost of Alaska’s Premium Class (Trip Report)

The Times They Are a Changin’: Anatomy of a Schedule Change

Silver was Bought by Wexford for Cheap, But It Still Won’t Bother Flying

Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK Airport: Tragedy in India, Silver Fades Away

Piedmont Escapes Death Once Again as American Doles Out Embraer 175s