The Cranky Weekly Evaluate is taking a break this week since we’ve been so busy with the awards that we’ve barely had time to maintain up on the information. It’ll be again as regular subsequent Friday.
Thanks to everybody who joined in final evening and watched the Cranky Community Awards offered by Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport stay! I’m simply going to imagine it went nice, the audio was good, and you really liked completely each joke. I’ve no alternative however to imagine that, as a result of I wrote this publish earlier than the occasion, and there’s no means I’m going to be functioning sufficient to alter this earlier than it goes stay… if it didn’t go fairly as deliberate.
If for some cause you missed it — and I do not know what horrible excuse you might have made as much as justify that transgression — you possibly can all the time watch it proper right here. However for individuals who hate jokes and enjoyable and simply need the main points, nicely, listed here are the winners…
- American for Miami to Tortola/Beef Island (Sexiest New Route – Brief-Haul)
- Hawaiian for Honolulu to Raratonga (Sexiest New Route – Lengthy-Haul)
- Solar Nation for Refocusing on MSP (Calculated Threat Award offered by Embraer)
- Qantas for Dallas/Fort Value – Melbourne (Kingsford Smith Southern Cross Award offered by Oakland Worldwide Airport)
- Breeze for Los Angeles – Westchester County (Greatest Plane-Enabled Alternative)
- Frontier for Getting JetBlue and Spirit Collectively (Matchmaker Award)
- United with Emirates (Most Promising New Partnership offered by Pittsburgh Worldwide Airport)
- Anthony Gilmer at Louisville Regional Airport Authority (Greatest Airport Associate)
- United for UA 769 for the final 3 digits within the 2nd row of the Sagrada Familia’s Magic Sq. (Most Intelligent Flight Quantity)
- Delta (Regional Apocalypse Survivor Award offered by Landline)
- Spirit for Los Angeles – Newark (Route Victory Award)
- Alaska for Seattle – Midcontinent Flying (Community Victory Award offered by Boeing)
- Frontier for Development into Bigger Markets (Most Improved Community offered by Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport)
We additionally handed out eight technical awards with Cirium utilizing their knowledge to determine some fairly cool metrics, if I do say so myself.
- Frequency Development Chamption: JetBlue for greatest development in home frequency per market at +34.6 p.c
- New Load Issue Champion: Allegiant for Akron-Canton to Sarasota at 93.1 p.c
- New Visitors Champion: United Newark – San Francisco + 370,878 passengers in 2022 vs 2021
- Gate Utilization Champion: American at Austin Gate 23 with 10.9 turns per day
- Plane Air Time Champion: Delta A350 N515DN with 14.76 hours per day
- Plane Air Time Champion (Regional): American/Envoy Embraer 175 N260NN with 7.94 hours per day
- Plane Cycle Champion (Mainland): Southwest 737-700 N940WN with 5.86 cycles per day
- Plane Cycle Champion: Southern/Mokulele N2150 with 8.6 cycles per day
For those who’d like to listen to the backstories on these, you’ll want to observe the occasion the place we trot out numbers and clarify in better element. Dave and I can even be placing a podcast out the place we discuss extra in regards to the winners.
Because of everybody for watching. And now, you possibly can mark your calendars for February 22, 2024 after we will come to you reside from Berkeley, California because of subsequent 12 months’s presenting sponsor, Oakland Worldwide Airport!