Even on American, most of its traffic heads down south to Dallas/Fort Worth first. These routings are inefficient, and there are a lot of people who are taking them. That suggests that Alaska could ...

This week on The Air Show, we are talking about JetZero and its proposed aircraft. With the episode just going live — if you don’t see it, keep refreshing — I’m putting up a bonus Thursday post with ...

United will now get that goofy standalone gate G20 as its own, and presumably the airline will put Newark flights there (next to the Spirit flights, naturally) in order to prevent the rest of its ...

The worst-kept secret in the industry finally became officialy last week when United and JetBlue announced the launch of their Blue Sky partnership. The headlines were about what I expected, but there ...

If you leave a comment, you will now have 5 minutes to make any edits you want to it. There is even a countdown timer so you know where you stand. Just click edit and you will find your original ...

There is no LUV for Southwest Airlines management this week as activist investor Elliott has taken more than a 10 percent stake in the airline and wants to fire Chairman Gary Kelly and CEO Bob Jordan.

It took me some time, because the Chicago Department of Aviation made me submit a FOIA request to get the new proposed gate allocation map at O’Hare AND, of course, I was on spring break with the ...

It is apparently regulatory week here on Cranky, and I’m going to spill into next week with another two-parter, this time looking at the situation at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Delta has been struggling ...

I didn’t get into specifics in my post about the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filing suit to block the American/US Airways merger yesterday, but today it’s time to dig in. In the 56-page complaint ...

Yesterday I gave you my rationale for why I loved the Alaska/Hawaiian merger back in 2019. But it’s 2023, so something has changed, right? Also, there’s an actual deal on the table to evaluate. So ...

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 ...