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Month March 2019

WOW dream ends after troubled few years

Almost seven years since starting its first flight, Iceland’s long-haul low-cost airline WOW Air has thrown the towel. The airline announced on March 28 that it has ceased all operations, following months of uncertainty over its future. WOW failed to…

Morning Call – Thursday March 28 2019

Commercial Aviation FAA chief stands behind Boeing 737 MAX certification – Source: SeattleTimes Boeing details its fix for the 737 MAX, but defends the original design – Source: SeattleTimes Boeing is in the middle of a safety-related PR nightmare. Can…

Messing with seats

US airlines have been messing with seat counts for some time.  The DoT data from the T-2 dataset allows us to demonstrate this. Here’s how we get the average numbers of seats.  Dividing the ASMs by the miles flown gets…