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Bloomberg has a great story on United Airlines possibly looking at pre-owned Airbus A319s and A320s.  The bankruptcy at Air Berlin and Monarch create opportunities for cash-flush airlines to bottom fish and acquire equipment at fire-sale prices.  As the story...

Air Berlin is gone.  What was once a significant airline is now bankrupt.  The chart shows the airline's fleet history.  As the chart shows, the airline was in trouble for some time, at least since 2011. Social media has several people catching the airline's fleet...

Reuters has an interesting story on the Air Berlin A330 fleet.  It mentions an apparent interest in a dozen of the 17.   Take a look at the airline's A330 fleet data and at the bottom of the chart, you can see the Lufthansa A330-220 fleet. As we can see Air Berlin has...

Airlines know that fast turnarounds mean profits – Southwest advertised ten-minute turns back in 1982. While there have been various claims about turnaround times, there has been a shortage of data to help determine just how important this factor is to airlines’...