Remember to leave your predictions for 2026 in the comments. I will as usual only consider the first prediction you make when I evaluate guesses next year, and some of you will continue to ignore that ...

It’s the end of another year, and I did some good flying this year, but I just didn’t do that much of it. With the exception of a Hawaiʻi trip, it was entirely a year of going up and down the coast.

The idea seems to be to have each side equally contribute shares to form a new Mexican airline group … that apparently has no name yet. But this group will simply be the holding company over both ...

What this means is that November should have been our first look at whether Spirit was going to have a functioning airline buried in its bloated former self, but the shutdown has clouded that data ...

The Delta of today has a network that looks nothing like what it did. It is a global powerhouse, and that is even without the inclusion of the joint ventures that Northwest pioneered with KLM and ...

If Southwest wasn’t able to turn in better results quickly, it was going to be in real trouble. Elliott agreed not to rock the boat until early 2026, but if Southwest hadn’t gotten the stock price up ...

It’s been more than 16 years since I started Cranky Concierge to help travelers with air travel problems, and things have changed a lot since those early days. Now, the biggest change yet is coming… I ...

After writing up Pittsburgh’s new terminal, I decided it would be fun to look at other former hubs to see just how they’ve been handled. None is stranger than Cleveland’s plan called CLEvolution. Many ...

Memphis has always been an airport that punched above its weight, but that all fell apart when Delta shut down the hub, and the airport has been left to pick up the pieces. Its solution has been to ...