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Get Your Favorite Airports On a Cranky T-Shirt
If you’ve been following along on Twitter, you know I’ve been feverishly working on creating individual shirts for as many airports as I can. I’m proud to announce that the first round of The Airport...
View ArticleVintage Airport Shirts Are Now Available… And We’re Taking Requests For More
For those of you who like to kick it old school — damn, I sound like an old guy trying to pretend to be cool — we now have vintage airport t-shirts available. It’s not a huge list yet, because it’s a...
View ArticleHonoring the Flight Crews That Died 19 Years Ago Today
It’s that day again, but this year it just feels different. The economic carnage that followed 9/11 now pales in comparison to what COVID-19 has wrought. And when you think about the 3,000 people who...
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Reviewing Your 2020 Predictions and Making Your 2021 Picks
Who’s excited for the annual tradition of seeing how you did with your predictions for the year? Anyone? ANYONE? No, you shouldn’t be excited, because they were nearly all wrong. I mean… seriously. I...
View Article2020 Flying Summary
Happy New Year everyone. Last year, shall we say, did not go as planned. But hey, at least I wasn’t shut out, and I squeaked past 10,000 miles on the year. We’ll call it a victory, and I’ll just have...
View ArticleHow to Watch Tonight’s Cranky Network Awards
At long last, the big day is here. Tonight is the Cranky Network Awards presented by Ontario International Airport, Southern California’s easiest airport. Join us for the YouTube Premiere tonight, or...
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How We Chose the Conrad Punta de Mita For a Pandemic Vacation (And Mostly...
Since this post isn’t about flights, I’m putting it up on a Wednesday. I will have a regular trip report on the flights themselves in the next couple weeks. The last time I took an actual vacation was...
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2022 Cranky Network Awards Are Coming to You Live on February 24
When the first Cranky Network Awards aired earlier this year, I promised we’d do it in person in 2022. And now, it’s happening… The 2022 Cranky Network Awards will be held on February 24, live with...
View ArticleHonoring the Flight Crews That Died 20 Years Ago Today
Twenty years. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. We are now as far away from 9/11 as they were in 1981 which is fairly mind-blowing. I think the reason it’s so hard to believe is that it is...
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Reviewing Your 2021 Predictions and Making Your 2022 Picks
So, how did your predictions go this year? For most of you, the answer was… not well. This was one hard year to predict. But hey, there was some success in there, so kudos to those of you who...
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2021 Flying Summary
There’s another year in the books. My mileage wasn’t much higher than the year before, but my segment count? Well, that was 4x last year. I went back to the more normal pattern with more short-haul,...
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How You Can Attend the Cranky Network Awards, Get a Free Cranky Network...
The Cranky Network Awards are now less than 2 months away, and the program is shaping up quite nicely. Now, you have a chance to join the rock stars of the network planning world in person as we...
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What Matters in an Aircraft Livery? Not Much.
There is rarely a hotter topic in airline dork discussion circles than an airline’s livery. The livery is — in normal human terms — the airline’s paint job, and the term comes from the livery, or...
View ArticleHonoring the Flight Crews That Died 21 Years Ago Today
Does it mean we’re getting old when 9/11 is now old enough to drink? I think what’s most amazing to me is the number of people in this industry who have no recollection of that day at all because they...
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Reviewing Your 2022 Predictions and Making Your 2023 Picks
It’s been a lot of fun reading through predictions this year. It’s the first time in awhile we’ve started looking beyond COVID, at least a little. And this is no small feat since you wrote these...
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2022 Flying Summary
This map looks weird. Any year without Hawai’i is a sad one. Maps generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Swartz. Of course, this was primarily due to me doing the Oakland Corridor...
View ArticleHonoring the Flight Crews That Died 22 Years Ago Today
It’s a shift that can give you whiplash. Saturday was Cranky Dorkfest where hundreds of us gathered, ate burgers, watched airplanes, and celebrated the industry we all love. Today, it turns very...
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Break Time
Cranky Concierge is gathering this weekend for company meetings, and I won’t be back until early next week. To make life easier, I’ll be taking a break from posting here until next Thursday. Cranky...
View ArticleHonoring the Flight Crews That Died 14 Years Ago Today
On the day before Cranky Dorkfest, I usually dedicate my post to the event. But today is no ordinary day, and there is something far more important to discuss. As I’ve done for the last 8 years, I’m...
View ArticleTopic of the Week: Your Favorite Book About the Airline Industry
I’ve just finished re-reading (for the 10th time, probably) my favorite book ever written about the airline industry… Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger Jr. If you’re looking for a compelling history of...
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