We had a discussion with Peter Lemme, a former Boeing flight control engineer. Peter is now a satellite communications engineer and has an excellent blog where you can delve into his reviews and analyses on the two MAX crashes. Reading…
The item behind this post comes from here. The key item to focus on: “Closer to home, the advantages and disadvantages of an airline having a single fleet and having aircraft from only one manufacturer are already being discussed in…
Yesterday the DoT updated their T-100 dataset. Here is our updated model on how the big US airlines are doing. Load factors softened but that should not be a concern yet. However, notice that load factors were pretty stable from…
Qatar Airways today published a PR note about its investment in Air Italy. The note starts like this: “Following recent false accusations relating to Qatar Airways’ shareholding in Air Italy, such baseless statements and consistent inaccuracies need addressing as…
As we did for Airbus, we now have a model for you to evaluate orders and deliveries. As always, use the double-headed arrow on the gray bar to optimize your screen. As you will note when you select 2019, the…
Air travel is all about schedule. Passengers buy on price, but they are aware that once they have made a booking, their planning focuses around that schedule. Mess with the schedule and all kinds of messages and images from annoyed…