The aerospace world is still trying to get their collective heads around the 220% number from the US Department of Commerce. The impact is still being worked out as firms around the world find themselves dragged into a fight none…
Bloomberg has this interesting story on Delta and its MD-88 fleet. Plans are to keep these aircraft flying for another three years. American has been retiring its MD-80s as quickly as Boeing delivers its new 737-800s. Well it is interesting…
Delta Air Lines last week produced a 15-minute film to educate employees about the company’s aggressive stance against the ME3. That video can be viewed here. This film is the latest effort in Delta’s campaign to urge the US government…
In the quarterly earnings report yesterday, Delta’s Glen Hauenstein announced the airline would base its first CS100 in New York. The idea is to relieve that hub of the 76-seaters which be moved elsewhere to replace the 50-seaters which will…
Once again, Akbar Al Baker, Chief Executive of Qatar Airways is making news at the Paris Air Show in several areas. We will quickly summarize them here: 1. An Equity Stake in American Today’s announcement that Qatar has approached American…
The three US network airlines are the world’s largest and now referred to as mega-carriers. Between them, they operate over 2,500 aircraft. This means these three airlines account for approximately 10% of the world’s active commercial passenger aircraft. What…