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Grounding MAX fleet costs TUI at least 200mln

Major European travel and airline TUI Group is expecting the grounding of its Boeing MAX 8-fleet to cost €200mln. That is when the grounding lasts until the Summer. If extended until September, another €100mln impact on its before-tax results is…

WOW dream ends after troubled few years

Almost seven years since starting its first flight, Iceland’s long-haul low-cost airline WOW Air has thrown the towel. The airline announced on March 28 that it has ceased all operations, following months of uncertainty over its future. WOW failed to…

Messing with seats

US airlines have been messing with seat counts for some time.  The DoT data from the T-2 dataset allows us to demonstrate this. Here’s how we get the average numbers of seats.  Dividing the ASMs by the miles flown gets…