United will now get that goofy standalone gate G20 as its own, and presumably the airline will put Newark flights there (next to the Spirit flights, naturally) in order to prevent the rest of its ...

The worst-kept secret in the industry finally became officialy last week when United and JetBlue announced the launch of their Blue Sky partnership. The headlines were about what I expected, but there ...

Cranky on the Web: Stress About Newark… or Maybe Not ...

As of now, the higher level remains Wanna Get Away plus. That becomes just Choice when the new seating plan rolls out. But Southwest is hoping that the promise of a credit valid for 12 months, the ...

I’m running out of free AI queries, but this is what “cranky flier brett snyder web” produces. This is all wrong… that is not a commercial plane in the background. Newark is a mess, but should you ...

We’re going to go old-school today with an Across the Aisle transcript of an interview I did with TAP Air Portugal’s. I was supposed to do this in person on the day of TAP’s inaugural LAX flight, but ...

We had to choose whether to fly Long Beach to Oakland and have the longer drive on that end or LAX to Santa Rosa and do the longer slog up front. It was more expensive, but in the end, we chose Santa ...

Closing the Book on 2025, It’s Time to Talk Cranky Network Awards 2026 Closing the Book on 2025, It’s Time to Talk Cranky Network Awards 2026 It was only a couple short months ago that the 2025 Cranky ...