The worldwide Covid-19 crisis will have a profound and lasting effect on the future of the airline industry. Most likely the sector will shrink and leave space for only much smaller airline groups, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr has warned on…
When we published a table that showed Delta’s A220 was struggling over 2019 there was quite a reaction. The DoT just released the January data and there has been a sharp improvement with Delta’s A220s. The following table shows the…
With the Covid-19 pandemic in full swing, global airlines are cutting back mercilessly with a downstream impact being felt throughout the commercial aerospace supply chain. On Friday Delta Air Lines, arguably the world’s best-run airline, announced it was grounding 300…
Yesterday Airbus published their latest numbers and here is our updated O&D model. No orders in February. Our model history goes back to 2000, and this has not happened before during the period. It looks like being a bad year…
With a picture that will cause Airbus America’s team some discomfort, and make Delta’s team look twice, a spotter in Mobile published a picture of the first US-made A220-300. Expanding the image you will notice the aircraft is missing its…
[UPDATED] With the December DoT On-Time data available we have been digging into the 2019 data. Something popped that warrants sharing. Slicing Delta out of the data for single-aisles we noticed something that stands out. What is happening with their…