Brett Snyder
@crankyflier
I write Cranky Flier, an airline industry site + run Cranky Concierge travel assistance + co-author Cranky Network Weekly airline network analysis + co-host the Cranky Network Awards. Yep, I'm busy... and obviously, I'm an airline dork/#avgeek.
Greetings from AS810, the first Hawaiian flight with the new pre-order meals. As much as I love a hot pocket for free, this corned beef hash was outstanding.
BREAKING NEWS: My son who loves him some Biscoff just got back from a flight on United. Now this appeared on the market list...
I think we can all agree there should be more songs named after airport codes. #YYZ Great opening show, Rush!
Hey wait, that's not the desert... www.flightradar24.com/N635NK/3fa60...
I can't be the only one opening @flightradar24.com every morning and putting on a filter for Spirit flights in the air just to see if they are still flying, right?
If anyone is flying around the Hawaiian islands today (or just on the ground), stay safe. Nasty storms rolling through.
As always, the Queen of the Skies outshines them all. This livery looks great on any airplane, but I can't wait to see this one in person, Lufthansa.
Holy crap. I just can't remember if I signed up to earn miles or if it was just so I could log in to eAAsy Sabre on Prodigy or Compuserve
This week in particular... this was sent directly to me from United and I'm told it'll run for one week only in Chicago.
Go back in time 20 years ago and imagine Southwest saying this. Your head would explode. www.swamedia.com/news-and-sto...
Time to stop the Spirit Death Watch. The airline is clearly in great shape now. I mean, would an airline in real trouble paint a special livery? WOULD IT?!?! ir.spirit.com/news/news-de...
It was indeed American. I was trying to prove a hypothesis that even if AA was running a decent operation, people would automatically think it was AA just because of how crappy the operation has been this year.
Really glad Nashville wasn't one of the 40 airports, definitely no need for that...
For those keeping score at home, we are completely and totally screwed. I'm betting yesterday's efforts to reduce capacity by FAA has now accelerated controllers calling in. We now have massive staffing triggers all over the system. (DCA is at 240 minutes!)
I would just like to thank my reader who thought this would be a helpful email to send. Your service to the nation is greatly appreciated
We are living in the dumbest of times. I think an old friend is going to have to make an appearance tomorrow...
Really like this shot sent to me by William Montgomery from #CrankyDorkfest yesterday. This was from the morning ramp visit at LAX.
Oh my, American has brought some sexiness to the LAX ramp visit this morning #CrankyDorkfest
It's a warm and sunny day here in Long Beach, but just east of here? The monsoon has crept west and it is blocking a lot of airspace. This flight from San Diego to Phoenix is fun to watch.
Today I learned Air Wisconsin CRJ-200 N471ZW in retro colors is known as "El Guapo," which is awesome This airplane has quite a checkered past, flying for Independence, go!, and Mexicana Link... all of which went bust. Air Wisconsin, to be clear, is still flying He's a looker... (image via IAC)
What am I missing, @tedreednc.bsky.social? You write that American codesharing on Alaska violates scope in this article www.forbes.com/sites/tedree... ... but that's not what the scope clause says
Doesn't Prague look great in this email from American? Oh wait, that's not Prague. That's Český Krumlov which is only about 40 miles closer to PRG than MUC, so technically American has already been able to get people there. What a weird thing to screw up.
Question question from Frontier's latest route announcement press release. Do we pronounce this like Kanye?
Qatar has closed its airspace and I'm watching on @flightradar24.com as Qatar Airways diverts planes to the nearest airports. Were I a betting man, I'd say an Iranian attack is coming shortly and they gave the Qataris a heads up. www.reuters.com/business/aer...