When: Saturday, September 13, 2025 from 11am to 1pm PT Why: Because you like watching airplanes and talking shop with fellow airline dorks ...

Hawaiian has a fleet of 18 A321neos that it uses to fly almost entirely between the islands and the mainland. (There is a weekly flight to Raratonga, but that is on weekends only, and I’ve ignored ...

It’s that time of the year when everything grinds to a halt. That means there’s not a lot of news, but there are still some year-end posts ahead. In the meantime, curious to hear some thoughts on what ...

In the early days, Vancouver grew in prominence in the Rouge network. It pushed into leisure routes to places like Las Vegas and Honolulu, but inexplicably it was also sent on key business routes to ...

We’ve seen bits and pieces of Alaska’s plans for its integration with Hawaiian, but this weekend the airline loaded its first major schedule shift. A whole lot of airplanes are moving around, and the ...

Air India is dominating the market, and it has more than doubled seats in the last decade. It will continue to have that nonstop market almost entirely to itself until Russian airspace opens up to ...

Cranky Weekly Review Presented by OAK: JetBlue Scales Back, Frontier’s First Class Frontier ...

I want to talk about Europe instead, because this I find to be a really interesting turn. I realize that it’s a small part of the JetBlue network, but it’s one I’ve always criticized. I didn’t think ...

This year’s Cranky Confab will have two panels. The idea is to have substantive, useful discussions that last for an hour (or a bit more) so there’s enough time for everyone to say something more than ...