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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