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Cranky Talk — 100 episodes

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Cranky Talk: New Rules from DOT

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The Cranky Flier Interview #34: Southwest SVP Network Planning and Network Operations Control Adam Decaire

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The Cranky Flier Interview #33 - Porter EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Kevin Jackson

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Cranky Talk:Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and the Boeing 737-9 Max

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Cranky Talk: NDC Woes

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The Cranky Flier Interview #32 - United SVP Global Network Planning and Alliances Patrick Quayle

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Cranky Talk: A Conversation With Wallace Beall on Airline Pricing and Overbooked Flights

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The Cranky Flier Interview #31 - Air Canada EVP Marketing and Digital Mark Nasr

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The Cranky Flier Interview #30 - Norse Atlantic President Charles Duncan

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Cranky Talk: CNA Wrap Up and a Special Announcement

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Cranky Talk: Southwest Goes to Washington

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Cranky Talk:Wifi on airplanes! How did we get here? Is it getting better?

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Cranky Talk:The 2023 Cranky Network Awards Categories!

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Cranky Talk: The 2022 Southwest Holiday Meltdown

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Cranky Talk: Why is Seat Pitch a Terrible Metric for Legroom?

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Cranky Talk: Frontier Launches GoWild! Is it Worth it?

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Cranky Talk: A Breakdown of Biden’s Junk Fee Speech

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The Cranky Flier Interview #29 - Flair CEO Stephen Jones

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Cranky Talk: The 2023 Cranky Network Award Preview!

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The Cranky Flier Interview #28 - Horizon Air President Joe Sprague

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Cranky Talk: Winter Outlook

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Cranky Talk: Summer 2022 Top Travel Destinations!

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Cranky Talk: Mailbag Episode!

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Cranky Talk: Spirit and JetBlue Part 3!

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Cranky Talk: Fume Events! Fact or Fiction?

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Cranky Talk: Southwest Credits No Longer Expire With Southwest Chief Marketing Officer Ryan Green!

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Cranky Talk: A US Travel Stress Test With Special Guest Dawn Gilbertson!

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Cranky Talk: All About Alliances!

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Cranky Talk: The Summer of Airline Madness

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Cranky Talk: JetBlue Gets Hostile With Spirit

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Cranky Talk: What is the Point of a Travel Agent?

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Cranky Talk: The Oakland California Corridor Challenge

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Cranky Talk:The Airplane Seat of the Future

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The Cranky Flier Interview #27 - Denver Air Connection’s Jon Coleman

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Cranky Talk: Dave Flew Spirit!

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Cranky Talk: Russia Invades Ukraine

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Cranky Talk: Airplane Livery!

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Cranky Talk: Spirit and Frontier Merge!

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Cranky Talk: The Cranky Network Awards!

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The Cranky Flier Interview #26 - Northern Pacific CEO Rob McKinney

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Cranky Talk: Omicron and Airline Staffing

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Cranky Talk: 2021 Holiday Spectacular!

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Cranky Talk: Dave Went to Europe

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The Cranky Flier Interview #25: United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby

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The Cranky Flier Interview #24: Current Aviation CEO Brad Beakley

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Cranky Talk: Airline MELTDOWNS

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Cranky Talk: Potential Permanent COVID Travel Changes

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Cranky Talk: Post-9/11 Travel Changes

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Cranky Talk: DOJ vs BlueMerican Partnership

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The Cranky Flier Interview #23: United Afghanistan Evacuation Employees

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Cranky Talk: Airline Employee Vaccine Mandates

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Cranky Talk: How Realistic are Electric Planes?

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Cranky Talk: Flying After You've Had COVID

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Cranky Talk: The Great In Flight Entertainment Debate

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Cranky Talk: Biden's EO And What It Means For Airlines

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Cranky Talk: A Cranky European Reopening

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Cranky Talk: The One About Boom

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Cranky Talk: What Would Cranky Airlines Look Like?

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Cranky Talk: The Big Airplane Demise

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The Cranky Flier Interview #22: Landline Co-Founder and CEO David Sunde

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Cranky Talk: New Airlines on the Block

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Cranky Talk: JetAmerAlaska Partners In The Sky!

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Cranky Talk: Summer Travel Guessing Game

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The Cranky Flier Interview #21: Viva Air CEO Felix Antelo

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Cranky Talk: Returning From Abroad in the Time of COVID

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Cranky Talk: The Great 2020 Air Travel Consumer Report Breakdown

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The Cranky Flier Interview #20: Avianca CEO Anko van der Werff

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Cranky Talk: Have COVID Passport, Will Travel...Maybe

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Cranky Talk: How COVID is Impacting Airline Schedules

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Cranky Talk: The One About the MAX

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Cranky Talk: How Airlines Are Distributing Vaccines

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Cranky Talk: The Cranky Talk Holiday Special

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Cranky Talk: COVID Testing and the Airlines

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Cranky Talk: Thanksgiving Mailbag Special

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Cranky Talk: Brett Went to Hawaii

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The Cranky Flier Interview #19: Hawaiian Airlines President and CEO Peter Ingram

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Cranky Talk: Traveler Safety Part 2

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The Cliff Part 2: What Happened?

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Cranky Talk: New Airline Routes

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Cranky Talk: The End of Change Fees?

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The Airline Industry Approaches a Cliff

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Cranky Talk: Brett Books a Flight

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The Cranky Flier Interview #18: Southwest Airlines Chief Commercial Officer, Andrew Watterson

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Cranky Talk: How Airlines are Keeping Travelers Safe

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Cranky Talk: How Airlines Pick Their Routes!

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Cranky Talk: How Airports are Funded and the Impact of COVID-19

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Cranky Talk: Summer Travel Ideas in the Time of COVID-19

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The Cranky Flier Interview #17: United Airlines Vice President, International Network and Alliances, Patrick Quayle

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Cranky Talk: To Fly or Not to Fly? Buying tickets in the time of COVID

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Cranky Talk: The Airport of the Future

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Cranky Talk: The Phantom Refunds

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The Cranky Flier Interview #16: Mark Thorpe, CEO Ontario International Airport Authority

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The Cranky Flier Interview #15: Southwest EVP and CRO Andrew Watterson

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The Cranky Flier Interview #14: Korry Franke, 737 Captain

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The Cranky Flier Interview #13: Janet Lamkin, United Airlines, President of California

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The Cranky Flier Interview #12: American Airlines CEO Doug Parker

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The Cranky Flier Interview #11: Hawaiian CEO Peter Ingram and VP RM/Network Brent Overbeek

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The Cranky Flier Interview #10: SAS General Manager USA Max Knagge

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The Cranky Flier Interview #9: Southwest Chief Revenue Officer Andrew Watterson

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The Cranky Flier Interview #8: Those Who Made the Delta Move at LAX Happen