It will soon be hard to find one of the classic jetliners flying in the US. Longtime fan, Allegiant, retired all its “Mad Dogs”. American plans to do the same by year end. Delta, the airline that loves old planes…
Here is our monthly model update. We have added more pages to the model to provide additional views on the data. Page 1: Basic reporting of gross orders (Airbus won’t provide net) and deliveries (the more important number). This page…
[UPDATED] Early this morning the news broke that Mitsubishi is in serious talks with Bombardier about the CRJ program. As the morning wore on confirmations came in. The surprise here is the surprise. Four months ago we shared ideas on…
We missed the recent media briefing in Brazil, but Embraer kindly offered us an opportunity to put forward some questions to President & CEO, Embraer Commercial Aviation John Slattery. Can you tell us yet about the E3? As the market…
We have just published our largest data visualization to date. From 2017 through February 2019, our model processes over 8.5 million flights among US airlines. The model has three pages listing on-time performance by aircraft type, OEM, and airline. The…
It was going to happen, as the airline industry starts to sense a slowdown. The order splurge of the past few years was unprecedented. Between them, Airbus and Boeing are sitting on a seven-year backlog in single-aisle aircraft. But because…