Monitoring the US air traffic recovery
We track the daily TSA numbers and combine this with flight data from FlightRadar24 to build the model below.
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MHIRJ’s role with ZeroAvia explained
ZeroAvia is on a tear this week. Several announcements of what look like large-scale projects across the commercial aviation space. Probably the most interesting of these is the one with MHIRJ.
ZeroAvia and Alaska Air plan hydrogen-electric Dash8
Yesterday there was an interesting announcement about Alaska Airlines modifying one of its Dash8s to add a hydrogen-electric powertrain. The new engine can produce between 2,000 and 5,000 KW. That translates into between 2,600 and 6,700 Hp. Alaska Airways also…
US airline scorecard
Wonder how the industry is doing as we get their most recent reports? Take a look at what they filed with the US DoT. Here’s the model subscribers get to work with. Top left chart: In terms of FTEs ,…
Rising fuel prices and the push for greener, sustainable aviation
With growing chatter about fuel burn and rising fuel prices, we kept digging in the data and came up with some interesting metrics for your consideration. The greener the number in the table the better. Our metric is seat miles…
The US airline recovery continues
Despite the recent softening of traffic volumes, the industry is, overall recovering. As always, we have data to illustrate this. The chart above is through June and that is a quarter ago – but US DoT runs that late. The…