This week on The Air Show, Brian leads us in talking about United’s new MileagePlus earning change. Have the credit card? You are important. You don’t? You are not. It’s yet another move away from ...

Spirit’s Fort Lauderdale home will remain important, though it sounds like weakness in Latin America may see that connectivity reduce to some extent. Orlando is also a key city. Other than that? It’s ...

By then, TWA had been taken over by American (in 2001) and despite an early effort to keep the hub going, it only shrank from that point. The hub officially closed in 2009, the same year the Air ...

After a short taxi, we rolled into our gate at AIFA. The terminal is a large building with gates in a straight line. Excluding ground boarding and bus gate possibilities, there are 14 real gates with ...

Frontier decided to end its efforts to make a go of things at New York’s JFK airport last week with the termination of all but one, single daily flight from the airport. This makes sense, but the ...

My gate was further down, so I just grabbed a seat toward the base of the concourse and checked email using the free wifi, still having an hour until my flight. I then got up, bought a bottle of water ...

Mexicana was fine, but the real star of the show was the Embraer E2.

Whew, and just like that, the 2026 Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport are done. We had another huge turnout, and there were a lot of happy winners. There were ...

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: ...

Late last year, American brought in Nat Pieper from, well, from right down the hallway where he was CEO of the oneworld alliance to come in and take over as Chief Commercial Officer. American had been ...

It’s time to kick off this Mexican travelogue with a look at how I got across the border in the first place. None of my flights ever touched the United States. Instead, I decided to go down to San ...