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Cranky on the Web: FAA Flight Cut Madness, Oh, and Cleveland

Frontier Airlines cancels popular Cleveland routes to Puerto Rico and New York City– The Plain Dealer And finally, something completely unrelated! Frontier is making changes to its network again, ...
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Feds Announce Massive, Haphazard Cuts in Air Service Starting Tomorrow, and We Should All Be Angry

When it comes to the functioning of the federal government, I expect a certain level of dumbassery. So when even that level gets exceeded, it makes me angry. And today, I’m VERY angry. In fact, I’m so ...
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Narita’s Fortunes Improve as Godzilla Heads to Haneda

Haneda has long been preferred by the locals around Tokyo, not to mention Yokohama. But there are still people that live closer to Narita and find it more convenient. Besides, Haneda could never ...
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NRT – Tokyo Narita

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United Goes in for the Kill in San Francisco

At the APEX Expo in September, United CEO Scott Kirby talked about how he likes to enter fights when he has the high ground. Otherwise, he’s not interested. Well, San Francisco is one of those places ...
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Good Riddance, Southwest’s Open Seating (Trip Report)

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 ...
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I Will Miss Southwest’s Open Seating (Trip Report)

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 ...
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2026 is Alaska’s Year of San Diego and Portland… at the Expense of LA and San Francisco

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 ...
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Seattle’s Second Terminal Gets Closer to a Green Light

Building anything related to an airport in the US is nearly impossible. If you’re lucky, it will take years and cost an absurd amount of money. After a long, long road, it seems that Seattle/Tacoma ...
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The LAX Terminal Shuffle Begins Again as Terminal 5 Prepares to Shut Down

If you happen to be traveling to or from Los Angeles (LAX) on American, JetBlue or Spirit in the near future, get ready for something different. LAX will be shutting down Terminal 5 to knock it down ...
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Ask Cranky: Is Southwest Overbooking Again?

I haven’t done an entry in this series for a long time, and honestly when I got this email from a reader, I didn’t think I’d be doing it here either. But then, it turns out, the answer is far more ...