After more than half a decade with Airbus outproducing Boeing each month, the tables turned in August 2026. Boeing first flights in August totaled 63 aircraft compared with only 58 for Airbus. The last time this happened with in September…
United Airlines has abandoned 10 planned regional routes out of Chicago O’Hare — Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, plus a planned Guadalajara service. Alaska Airlines dropped seven routes — three seasonal Puerto Vallarta services, plus smaller California and regional…
How is the absence of Spirit Airlines going to impact the ULCC segment? As we noted in the previous post, the Network carriers are best placed to exploit the growing bleisure market. The market is continuing to adjust, Spirit’s absence…
One might think the US air travel market has left COVID impact in the dust of history. The truth is that US domestic air travel never fully went back to the pre-COVID mix. Business travel collapsed far more severely in 2020…
Last week saw a flutter of news around the A321XLR. This was driven Patrick Quayle, United’s senior vice president of global network planning and alliances, told The Air Current that the range originally presented by Airbus was “a lot further…
This analysis is likely to come across as fingernails on the blackboard for many. The thesis is data driven, and we’re going to walk readers through it, data point by data point. You might still disagree, but you’ll see where…