Here we are in December, and the US DoT has updated its US Airline Traffic numbers through August. Here’s our updated model. The depth of the hit the industry took in April is staggering. The climb out since then has…
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…
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…
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…
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 ,…
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…