Why flights to Europe are the cheapest they’ve been in years – CNBC If you’re looking to fly coach to Europe during the off-peak season, it is really cheap. CNBC took a look at what is happening, but ...
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 ...
Cranky Weekly Review Presented by San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport: Boeing is Back, Baby, and Lufthansa’s Italian Roadblock ...
First, Frontier’s average stage length absolutely plunged 14 percent from 996 miles to 856 miles. If you’re flying 14 percent less, you don’t mind the 8 percent decline in fare quite as much. Still, ...
This was supposed to be a nice and easy flight home from Honolulu after a great trip. I had been sitting on a ton of points from last October when Hawaiian canceled a couple flights impacting four ...
I’m well aware that I’ve written a lot about United’s recent network announcement, but there’s still more to be said. Today, I want to talk about the airline’s Atlantic Plus-Plus (A++) joint venture ...
It was just a couple days ago when I talked about how Delta was strengthening its southern European operation next summer, including the addition of only one new city (Catania). American was similarly ...
The 757 was the absolute king of the road up until the pandemic. It wasn’t until the Great Recession when the use of the 757 peaked on long flights, but it remained very important until the pandemic ...
In 1986, United Airlines took over Pan Am’s Pacific route network. This was arguably the beginning of the end for Pan Am, but it’s also what brought United into the big leagues as a true international ...
The Department of Transportation (DOT) in late April finalized rules requiring airlines to automatically issue refunds if there’s a disruption and no acceptable alternative exists. It sounds great in ...
Any time something happens in this airline industry we love, there’s a good chance I have an opinion on it. And to get to that opinion, I first have to figure out where the company that’s making the ...