Alaska continues its metamorphosis into a premium global carrier today by announcing a couple of new routes as well as a new livery that will apply only to the B787 fleet. The airline is really trying ...

Saturday was another successful Cranky Dorkfest, our biggest yet. Thank you to everyone who came out to LAX, and for those of… Continue Reading: For Those Who Didn’t Attend, Here’s What You Missed at ...

That’s why you now have to RSVP if you want to be entered in the giveaways. You can, of course, show up at the park and hang out, but if you have not RSVP ‘d, you aren’t going to have a chance at the ...

Are Global Entry and TSA PreCheck Losing Their Value? – TravelPulse TSA Precheck and Global Entry have been well worth it for years, but is that changing? With new options for regular travelers, ...

The waiting room was packed, because Kenmore has inexplicably scheduled all of its flights to go at the same time. But there is a balcony with chairs that had a couple seats available so we went out ...

This sucks, and it is even in place for international-to-international connections. The US is one of the only places that makes life this miserable for these types of connections. You must enter the ...

Reading through financial filings can be a tedious task. American’s 10-Q for the third quarter of 2023 clocks in at 211 pages, and most of that is only of interest to the finance types. But there was ...

Breeze Aviation Group, Inc., dba Breeze Airways is David Neeleman’s latest airline, flying for almost three years now. As a private company, Breeze doesn’t file SEC financials, but as a US commercial ...

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 ...

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 ...

I hadn’t spent nearly enough time picking apart full year 2022 traffic trends even though the last quarter of 2022 came out in Cirium data a couple months. Now that I’m getting to it, I’m finding some ...