The delivery, last week in Toulouse, of Japan Airlines’ first Airbus A350-900 aircraft was full of symbolism for both Airbus and the Japanese airline. This was nothing less than the first delivery by the European manufacturer to an airline that,…
What has been the impact of losing WOW for Icelandair? Not too much news about it, though Bloomberg had a very insightful story. The impact has been significant, and perhaps more serious than has been considered. The news about Icelandair…
We have just published our largest data visualization to date. From 2017 through February 2019, our model processes over 8.5 million flights among US airlines. The model has three pages listing on-time performance by aircraft type, OEM, and airline. The…
US/China trade tensions, weaking worldwide trade and higher (fuel) costs will eat into airlines’ profits in 2019, reducing them to $28 billion from $35.5 billion forecasted last December, the world’s airlines’ expect. The latest outlook has been announced on June…
We have published another model. This one allows a reader to see how the US airlines (Majors and Regionals) have deployed their fleets. The model shows average stage length and combines this with the number of flights over the period…
The recent Air New Zealand order for eight 787s had two twists that caught our attention. The first was the selection of GE to power these aircraft. The airline is like British Airways, Qantas and Cathay Pacific – they traditionally…