The airline announced it would finally return to Long Beach after an absence of more than ten years. But you don’t care if I’m happy, right? What you care about is… why am I writing about one lousy ...

I’ve been so focused on Spirit lately, I’ve been neglecting some of the broader industry stories. With Frontier having finally reported its Q1 earnings last week, I decided to take a closer look at ...

Still, as we discussed on Tuesday regarding Fort Lauderdale, that doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities for airlines to backfill to further their strategies. Today, I want to talk about some of ...

When I stepped away from active management of Cranky Concierge, one of the things I wanted to focus on was the growth of Cranky Network Weekly. I’m proud to announce today that we’ve rolled out ...

Spirit’s early days were fairly unremarkable. It was originally a charter operator known as Charter One, but in 1992 that airline became Spirit and launched its first scheduled flights from Detroit to ...

Fort Lauderdale was Spirit’s home and its largest station with May planned to have nearly 50 percent more departures than the airline’s second largest city. This was Spirit’s one true hub in that it ...

It can now continue to call itself Oakland San Francisco Bay International Airport. It just can’t put San Francisco before ...

Finding a return from Atlanta was not as clear-cut as choosing my American flight out. I could have flown American in coach on the nonstop using miles, but that was too late in the day. I also didn’t ...