Having handed over the reins of Cranky Concierge, I decided it was time for a little adventure. I came up with a whole bunch of ideas, but in the end, I settled on something relatively close to home: ...

This year, I’m working with a college student from Northwestern, Noah, to learn more about how you consume Cranky Flier and what changes might be good or bad… or at least worth thinking about. And now ...

January 27 was a big day in the history of Southwest Airlines. It was the first day of assigned seating, and that meant Extra Legroom seating had arrived as well. It was also the culmination of a ...

BermudAir launched in 2023 with 6x weekly to Boston, 2x daily to Westchester County, and 6x weekly flights to Fort Lauderdale. It started with Embraers in a standard configuration, but it had planned ...

United in summer 2019 was around 600 daily departure from O’Hare. It has been building back to that point ever since, and before today’s announcement the airline was going to be around 650 daily this ...

On top of that, Delta has opted for the GE GEnx engines. Its A350s and A330-900neos are all Rolls-powered airplanes, so this gives Delta a good balance. In today’s world where aircraft engine ...

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 ...

It took me some time, because the Chicago Department of Aviation made me submit a FOIA request to get the new proposed gate allocation map at O’Hare AND, of course, I was on spring break with the ...

It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good, old-fashioned, knock-down war between two airlines, but sure enough it seems that we are in the early stages of that very thing between American and United.

You may have heard that news that former American Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja has been hired by United Airlines to temporarily run its Kinective Media group as part of a larger shake-up in ...