With the Covid-19 pandemic in full swing, global airlines are cutting back mercilessly with a downstream impact being felt throughout the commercial aerospace supply chain. On Friday Delta Air Lines, arguably the world’s best-run airline, announced it was grounding 300…
Over the past year, we built a series of data models to highlight points about the US airline industry. Today we sharing another of these to illustrate how US airline fleets have been operating in terms of on-time performance. The…
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…