MAX cancellations
Sunday’s news that Saudi LCC flyadeal canceled its MAX order garnered a lot of attention. It should come as no surprise though. Airlines sell their schedule up to 360 days in advance. As we have seen with other aircraft program…
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Model Update – T-2 U.S. Air Carrier TRAFFIC And Capacity Statistics by Aircraft Type
We have updated our models that use the T-2 source. However, before we get there, we want to advise readers that those who are only interested in our models (those listed as “subscribers only”) can no access these via a…
Stage Length Model
We have published another model. This one allows a reader to see how the US airlines (Majors and Regionals) have deployed their fleets. The model shows average stage length and combines this with the number of flights over the period…
Are the days of cheap fuel drifting away?
Oil prices seem to be steadily creeping up again after a nice dropoff late last year. This chart from Macrotrends makes the case; 2019 has seen a sharp uptick. Oil prices are about double what they were about 30 months…
Our On-Time Model
Air travel is all about schedule. Passengers buy on price, but they are aware that once they have made a booking, their planning focuses around that schedule. Mess with the schedule and all kinds of messages and images from annoyed…
Messing with seats
US airlines have been messing with seat counts for some time. The DoT data from the T-2 dataset allows us to demonstrate this. Here’s how we get the average numbers of seats. Dividing the ASMs by the miles flown gets…