Airlines are juggling fleets to optimize for a slow traffic recovery. This is a challenge the industry has never had to face before. 9/11 was a short term adjustment because travel demand was still there. Now travel demand has dropped…
What patterns do we find among the US airlines as they try to recover and stabilize their schedules in the midst of uncertain traffic flows? Here’s what we find among the major US airlines for single-aisle aircraft, through September YTD. …
This is an updated model we published some months ago. Perhaps at the time, it was not apparent just how badly the US airlines were out of balance. The US airline industry has hundreds of highly articulate people who are…
Sometimes it is hard to grasp just how much of a hit the US airline industry is taking. Probably over a million words have been published about this by now. How about a few pictures to illustrate how severely the…
The US DoT’s T-2 dataset may be the most useful for the areas we cover – it has many interesting data points. Several of our data models make use of this source, directly or in combination with other DoT datasets.…
The US DoT recently updated its T-100 domestic data. Given the paucity of positive industry news and the aviation doldrums we find ourselves in, how about a data model to provide some unemotional sense of where we are? It’s said,…