The Covid-19 virus is just about all anyone in commercial aviation wants to talk about these days. The impact is spreading as fast as the virus and there may be some overreactions. Airlines are canceling flights and parking aircraft because…
With Boeing and Airbus continuing to aggressively price their narrow-body models, despite being a duopoly, pricing pressures are also impacting the A220 (nee C Series) as it competes at the lower end of the narrowbody market. While the A220-300 is…
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Over the past year, we built a series of data models to highlight points about the US airline industry. Today we sharing another of these to illustrate how US airline fleets have been operating in terms of on-time performance. The…
With a picture that will cause Airbus America’s team some discomfort, and make Delta’s team look twice, a spotter in Mobile published a picture of the first US-made A220-300. Expanding the image you will notice the aircraft is missing its…
Captains of Europe’s Big Five airlines are worried but not in a panic about how Covid-19 will impact the air travel industry this year. At least, that has been their message at the Airline 4 Europe (A4E) Aviation Summit in…