The US market for NMA
The USA has been the largest market for the 757 and 767. While the past is not necessarily prologue, the US airlines are going to be influential in the NMA definition. Asia be the biggest aviation market going forward, but…
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1Q18 selected US majors flight ops
Regular readers know we have a fascination with flight operations. More specifically, with ground handling time. We analyzed the first three months of the 2018 US DoT On-Time data to see if we could identify anything unusual. Here’s what…
Ordering a 737
The Boeing 737 is now the most popular commercial jet aircraft ever produced. Through December 2017 Boeing delivered 2,998 Classics, 6,303 NGs, and 70 MAXs. A total of 9,371. But getting the 737 you ordered takes time. It is interesting…
Taxi times by fleet for the US Big Three
Airlines don’t like long taxi times. They are, essentially, a waste of time and that means money. The ideal would be a world where the airplane touches down and is immediately given a gate, unloads, reloads and is back in…
Are aging fleets a problem?
With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that airplanes are vulnerable. There is nothing quite like an airline/airplane scary story to catch people’s attention. The industry safety statistics are too good to…
Deadline for Boeing Appeal of C Series Trade Case Passes without Action
Boeing, which brought and both won and lost a trade case before the International Trade Commission in the United States, faced a March 22nd deadline to appeal that decision to the Court of International Trade. Boeing apparently has chosen not…