Nigerian airports constitute a huge drain on the purse of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). The airport authority manages 22 out of 23 airports that dot the country’s landscape. Eighteen of these airports are categorized as ‘unviable’. The…
The relative sizes of these markets are quite different. But something big transpired over the past year that deserves attention. The first chart shows the number of monthly domestic passengers in both countries. Through March 2020, the US had a…
AirInsight US Airline Index Commercial Aviation Finnair defers delivery of three remaining Airbus A350s – FlightGlobal Tough year for Boeing but company has not ruled out designing a new airplane – NewsTribune Fitch downgrades Airbus to BBB+ with a negative…
Here’s the updated model. Remember to click the double arrow, please. Airbus had a few orders but made a big push on deliveries. YTD Airbus won 278 orders and delivered 374, including an A380 Delta was the most active customer…
Regular readers will have seen the monthly videos we have with Professor David Yu in Shanghai. For some time he has been telling us about the rapid recovery in China’s air travel market. We have three charts that illustrate the…
As we approach the re-entry into service of the Boeing MAX, the timing could not be more challenging. Traffic is recovering, but way too slowly for almost every market outside China. Yet we read about airlines here and there that…