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Addison Schonland

Addison Schonland

Co-Founder AirInsight. My previous life includes stints at Shell South Africa, CIC Research, and PA Consulting. Got bitten by the aviation bug and ended up an Avgeek. Then the data bug got me, making me a curious Avgeek seeking data-driven logic. Also, I appreciate conversations with smart people from whom I learn so much. Summary: I am very fortunate to work with and converse with great people.

Messing with seats

US airlines have been messing with seat counts for some time.  The DoT data from the T-2 dataset allows us to demonstrate this. Here’s how we get the average numbers of seats.  Dividing the ASMs by the miles flown gets…