Last week saw a flutter of news around the A321XLR. This was driven Patrick Quayle, United’s senior vice president of global network planning and alliances, told The Air Current that the range originally presented by Airbus was “a lot further…
This analysis is likely to come across as fingernails on the blackboard for many. The thesis is data driven, and we’re going to walk readers through it, data point by data point. You might still disagree, but you’ll see where…
There are duopolies almost everywhere one looks in commercial aviation. For wide-body and narrow-body airplanes the key players are Airbus and Boeing, with limited competition. For cross-over jets, the players are Embraer and Airbus. For regional jets, it is now…
Icelandair completed its acquisition of a 49% stake in Fly Play Europe Holdco (FPE) on August 20, paying $686,000 for a stake in the Maltese entity holding a European Air Operator Certificate. We flagged this deal back in April, when…
Its been some time since we last shared this data model. Using the US DOT’s T-2 dataset, we developed this simple model that provides a glimpse into the industry’s airlines and how they perform operationally. The data is current through…
United Airlines has hundreds of lie-flat business class seats sitting in storage, ordered years ago for a Boeing 737 MAX 10 that still isn’t in service. The seats are Elevate’s Altitude — an aisle-facing herringbone suite, adapted in a slightly…