Our story about the A220 fleet schedule performance at Delta seems to have caused a flutter. This was not the intent. However, in a spirit of transparency, we decided to publish our model from which the information was derived. Readers…
US air travelers have had a sense of this for some time – flights seem to be taking longer. And longer. Is this real or does it just feel longer because of annoying airport security and fuller, tighter cabins? Take…
We now have the data for December 2019 and our models are being updated over the course of today. Here is our public model on flight performance for US airlines and it also shows you the times of day where…
What happens when you decide to treat people as payload? The DoT allows for an average weight of 209 pounds per passenger. So, doing some math, we can get the weight of people, their bags and the mail. Then divide…
The US DoT has a plethora of data sets, and as we model more of them, it becomes clear that these databases offering tremendous insight into the market. The sheer size of the datasets has been a hurdle for most…
Although fuel prices are dropping again, this has not proven to be a long term trend. Suppliers always try to react by cutting supply in an attempt to push prices up again. Invariably there are cheaters (oligopoly rules get broken).…