by Richard Schuurman | Dec 3, 2020 | Airlines
Irish low-cost Ryanair has placed an order with Boeing for 75 MAX 8-200s, confirming media reports from earlier this week. It brings the airline’s backlog for the high-density version of the MAX 8 to 210. The 75 were earlier listed as options. Deliveries are...
by Addison Schonland | Dec 3, 2020 | Airlines
It is useful to know just how crucial ground operations are for for airlines. Using the US airlines as an example, we developed the following one page model. You can change the year and aircraft type. Remember to use the double-headed arrow at bottom right to allow...
by Richard Schuurman | Dec 3, 2020 | Airlines
SAS is early retiring almost one-third of its Boeing 737NG-fleet, converting some of them to full-freighters. Most of the Airbus A340-fleet is also to be retired, the airline said on December 3 during its FY2019/20 results presentation. Before Covid, the Scandinavian...
by Daniel Martínez Garbuno | Dec 3, 2020 | Airlines, Embraer
The Brazilian airframer Embraer is looking at Latin America as a strong market for the regional and turboprops segments in the next decade, according to its 2020 Market Outlook published on December 2. As reported previously by Richard Schuurman, Embraer sees a...
by Addison Schonland | Dec 2, 2020 | Airlines
We have been tracking US airline metrics for some time and noticed something readers might find as eye-opening as we do. Using the US DoT data, we estimate the cost of each US airline’s operations per minute. Here’s the latest data through June 2020. The...
by Wole Shadare | Dec 1, 2020 | Airlines
Low-cost carriers were before COVID-19 starting to slowly – very slowly – penetrate Africa’s regional international market. LCCs currently only account for about 0.2 percent of international capacity within Africa, making it one of the last frontiers for the global...
