Alaska has had to pull resources from elsewhere in order to fund its growth in both Portland (OR) and San Diego. It’s Los Angeles and San Francisco which suffer the most. In Los Angeles, airlines are ...

The morning of our return started very early. We had a hot-air balloon ride scheduled, and that meant arriving at 6:45am. The weather was iffy with rain around, but they said we were good enough to go ...

San Diego just opened its brand new Terminal 1, and that means it all-of-a-sudden has more capacity available. Get ready for at least a couple of years of Alaska and Southwest trying to beat each ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has now approved a “Final Environmental Assessment” and a “Finding of No Significant Impact/Record of Decision” for SEA’s big master plan that it hopes to ...

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 ...

I usually love writing this post, but this time I had a little bit of dread in me. I knew 2020 was going to be rough. And by that, I mean I knew I was going to have to do a lot of writing. Sure enough ...

Today when the airlines start leaving Terminal 5, the new Midfield Satellite Concourse opens its eight new gates. The MSC sits west of the Bradley Terminal and is the home of several international ...

This was a somewhat nostalgic trip, because it may very well be the last time I fly with Southwest before open seating goes away. On the way up, I remembered why I’ll miss it, and that’s the focus of ...

I’ve had a lot of offline discussion about aircraft configuration and premium focus as of late, so I decided it was time to dive into the details to see just how things have changed at different ...

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 ...

One of these days we will be able to announce the Cranky Dorkfest date for the next year at the current year’s… ...