United Airlines today revealed its new colors, which look at lot like the old colors, minus the gold tones from the Continental livery on which the current color scheme was based. The new scheme is illustrated in this chart…
News It was disclosed today that some optional equipment related to safety will now be made standard on the Boeing 737MAX. There are two safety-related “options” on the Boeing 737MAX. The first is an angle of attack indicator, which shows…
Following our presentation of the American Airlines and Delta Air Lines fleet unpacking, we are following this up with the equivalent for United Airlines. United has gone through a sharp fleet change post the merger with Continental. The earlier interest…
The adage is an airplane does not make money on the ground. If this is true then ground time is not only lost revenue, it is also added cost. Among the big three US airlines, we see that typically the…
Consolidation among US airlines has seen a sharp rise in the market power of a few very big companies. Looking only at the 3Y18 numbers we see the following. The big three account for over 60% of the market. Adding…
As of the 2Q18, here is where we stood with the US airline industry in-service fleet. The top four airlines accounted for 79% of the fleet. That is concentrated and clearly points to industry followers needing to be au fait…