To paraphrase the Beatles, they get by with a little help from their friends. This airline has good friends that keep pumping money into the airline, mostly named Bjørn. They’ve also made a new friend ...

When we look back in the distant future, I think we’ll remember today as the day that Southwest died. No, it is not going out of business, but its entire value proposition — everything that made it ...

If you weren’t at the 2025 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, you missed a great time. As promised, we will have two wrap-up videos for you. The first one is ...

To say it has been a whirlwind month for those who live in Washington, DC would be an understatement. It has been an absolutely insane month, truth be told. Now, American is pulling back at its ...

Mesa has finally reached its end state as a regional carrier. It is now an airline that flies one type of aircraft (Embraer 175) for one major partner (United). Chances are, this is as good as it gets ...

Southwest does did not lay people off. In the nearly 54 years since the airline started flying, it never has laid anyone off, and that was a key part of the company lore. But late yesterday, on a ...

It always seems to sneak up on us, but this week is the fifth annual Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The nominees are ready, the trophies are engraved, and ...

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 ...

Airline incidents and layoffs have made recent headlines. What does it mean for the industry? – KJZZ 91.5 I had a chat with KJZZ in Phoenix about all the different things going on in the airline ...

After Silver stopped flying for Amazon’s Prime Air in 2023, the airline had 14 aircraft flying around Florida and the Caribbean. Eight of those were ATR-42s with another six larger ATR-72s. One of the ...