Google will acquire deidentified Spirit Airlines data after winning a bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid. The records include employee emails, Teams messages, code repositories, financial and pricing data, operating and maintenance records, calendars, and disruption history—offering a rare archive of…
Airports don’t build buffers—airlines do. When we look at US airline schedule padding, we aren’t looking at a metric designed or controlled by airport operators. Instead, we are looking at an airline’s reaction to real-world friction. Schedule padding is essentially a…
All Nippon Airways has placed a follow-up order with Embraer for eight E190-E2s, which will be operated on an ACMI contract by IBEX from 2028. The order was approved by ANA’s Board meeting on Wednesday. ANA confirmed its first E2-order…
In the recently published market forecasts of all three OEMs, two regions are of particular interest given recent events: the Middle East and Africa. The former is in the spotlight as tensions around Iran continue, while the latter is consistently…
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For much of the post?pandemic recovery, the commercial aviation industry operated under a comforting assumption: demand solves most problems. Travelers returned faster than expected, international markets reopened, and airlines regained pricing power after years of brutal competition. That phase may…