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 ,…
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American’s ‘best quarter’ still red without special items
American Airlines improved its quarter-by-quarter results by posting a $169 million net profit for Q3, up from $19 million in the second quarter . However, excluding special items, the net loss was $641 million, it reported on October 21. American’s…
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…
JetSMART received its 19th aircraft
Earlier this week, the Chilean ultra-low-cost carrier JetSMART received its 19th aircraft, an Airbus A320neo. This plane represents one step further on the big growth plans by the South American airline. JetSMART plans According to Airbus Orders & Deliveries database,…
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…
Airinsight News in Brief – September
To bring you more aviation news, Airinsight introduces News in Brief. During September, we compile a rolling story by date with news that is sometimes too small for a deep analysis but still interesting enough not to be missed. 28…