United asked me to come speak at its commercial leadership team event in Chicago earlier this month. While Iʻm normally skeptical about doing these kinds of things, I was curious enough to hear how ...

We don’t do interviews often at The Air Show, but when we do, we make sure it’s someone you really want to hear from. This week, we talk to JetBlue President Marty St George. Marty is, as anyone who ...

The “differentiated” part of the story goes back to when Delta decided to get away from the commodity business and become a premium airline 15+ years ago. It has unquestionably been very successful in ...

It continues to get uglier and uglier at Spirit. The on-again, off-again merger with Frontier seems to be off again. The airline delayed filing of its third quarter earnings report, but it did say ...

The key for me was finding another place for AvGeekiness, and Bluesky is that place. You can find me there @crankyflier.com. I’ve been on X/Twitter for years, amassing over 150,000 followers, some of ...

The Alaska/Hawaiian merger has been a done deal for over a month, but it’s all been quiet so far. That is now beginning to change. In advance of the combined airline’s investor day next month, it has ...

The Department of Transportation (DOT) in late April finalized rules requiring airlines to automatically issue refunds if there’s a disruption and no acceptable alternative exists. It sounds great in ...

Ever since American backed off its draconian implementation of New Distribution Capability (NDC) for travel agents, there’s been a whole lot less to write about. But I talked to Mark Nasr, Air ...

JetBlue, meanwhile, picked up the slack at LaGuardia where it launched flights to a dozen new destinations. It stretched into markets like Charleston (SC), Nashville, Portland (ME), etc. It went into ...

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 ...