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6 days ago · Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: Southwest and Elliott Find Détente, Frontier and Spirit Can’t Quit Each Other. Southwest and Elliott Reach Truce Southwest Airlines months-long proxy fight with activist investor Elliott Investment […] Andrewon Oct 25, 2024 Oct 25, 2024 - 9 Comments on ...
Boeing Announces New 797 to Replace the 737 Family
Mar 31, 2024 · After more than 50 years, Boeing has finally announced plans to cancel the Boeing 737 program. The company is going to launch the new and long-awaited 797 aircraft to replace the 737. In a real surprise, the company says development work has been quietly underway for some time, and the aircraft should be certified relatively quickly.
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Learn More About Cranky. My name is Brett Snyder, and I am the President and Chief Airline Dork of Cranky Flier LLC. I’ve had the airline bug since I was young. I never wanted to fly…. I just loved the complexity of the business, and I’ve been able to write about that here since 2006. As a kid, I never missed a chance to go to LAX and ...
Cranky on the Web: Hurricanes and a Data Dive – Cranky Flier
Oct 11, 2024 · Cranky on the Web: Hurricanes and a Data Dive. CFon Oct 11, 2024 Oct 12, 2024 - 1 Comment on Cranky on the Web: Hurricanes and a Data Dive. Cranky on the Web, The Air Show. The Latest Hurricane Milton Travel Updates – Condé Nast Traveler What about the people who were going to Florida on vacation during the hurricane?
Spirit’s New Bundle Pricing is Out, and There is a Pattern Here
Aug 20, 2024 · It’s hard to say. Spirit’s a la carte seat assignment pricing is wild. On October 15, the cheapest seat you can reserve on a Go fare is $14 from LAX to Newark, but it’s $18 on the short hop to Las Vegas. So your mileage will absolutely vary depending upon where you’re going.
United’s Wild Summer Schedule Shows How Different This Airline Is
Oct 10, 2024 · Newark Gets Unique Destinations. United July 2025 Atlantic network (excluding India) via Cirium. In addition to boosting frequencies in the Newark – Athens, Dubrovnik, and Palma de Mallorca markets, Newark is getting five new summer seasonal routes to some pretty hard-to-get places. Bilbao (Spain) 3x weekly from May 31 on a 757-200.
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Oct 11, 2024 · Crowdstrike Causes Famine, Housing Crisis, Rise in Crime, and Delta to Miss Earnings Goals. Delta Air Lines’s Q3 Earnings were released Thursday, and the carrier posted an operating income of $1.4 billion on $15.7 billion gross revenue, an impressive performance but lower than the company record $3.5 trillion in the quarter it would have earned had it not been …
SAS Starts to Adapt to Its New French (and Dutch) Overlords
CFon Sep 25, 2024 Sep 23, 2024 - 28 Comments on SAS Starts to Adapt to Its New French (and Dutch) Overlords. SAS. It’s been a big year for Scandinavian Airlines System, better known as SAS. The airline has long struggled with poor labor relations, high costs, conflicting priorities between its three state owners (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ...
Delta Looks to Southern Europe for Growth – Cranky Flier
Oct 7, 2024 · That is also the only growth from JFK. Most of the growth is coming out of Atlanta. Delta’s overall Atlantic plan includes the following year-over-year filed changes in next July’s schedule: Atlanta – Amsterdam increased from 18x weekly to 3x daily. Atlanta – Athens increased from 1x daily to 11x weekly. Atlanta – Barcelona increased ...
Boeing Gets Closer to Delivering Its New Flagship, the 777X
Dec 6, 2023 · More than a decade ago, Boeing put forth the 777X as a competitor to the higher end of the A350 family. The launch order came from Lufthansa in 2013 and while first flight occurred in 2020, delivery keeps being pushed back. It’s now pegged for 2025, a mere six years later than originally planned. All that being said, 2025 isn’t that far off ...