IATA announced global passenger traffic results for August showing a strengthening of the healthy demand trend of the past few months. Total RPKs rose 6.8% compared to August 2012. Capacity increases YOY lagged demand at 5.6%. This pushed the load…
We’re coming into the hurricane and stormy summer seasons for North America, which can shut a hub airport and cause flight cancellations that could have airport terminals looking like makeshift hotels. A major reason airports will fill up with passengers…
Mike Platt, CEO at LCI Aviation talks about their business. Views: 27
Many readers know we have a weekly newsletter. Recently we were asked if it would be possible to put these into a book form. So we took those from 2012 and created a PDF booklet. You can download the document…
The US DOJ, various state attorneys general and the District of Columbia have filed challenging the American Airlines (AA)–US Airways (US) merger. This news was not what was expected by industry followers. The previous merger between Delta and Northwest went…
Airlines are constantly seeking ways to reduce operating costs. The principal target focused on today is fuel costs. The following chart illustrates how efficient airlines have become over the last decade. But as impressive as this chart is, one can…