Remember, back in the mists of time, before the Virus? It feels like so long ago. Back then the world seemed so “normal”. Here is how our model was forecasting future operating margins for the big US airlines based on…
American Airlines reported a $-2.2 billion Q1 net loss on April 30, four times the size of its main competitor Delta ($-422 million). This includes special items, otherwise, the result would have been $-1.1 billion. Still, it is another indication…
Scope Clause is something that is almost certainly an issue, along with furloughs, that is causing US pilots headaches. So, what are some of the options or scenarios that could play out? Let’s look at the big three US airlines…
The US airline industry continues to suffer through its worst crisis. The downstream effects are slowly making their way through the general economy. If there was any question as to this impact of air travel constraint in the era of…
Typically the airlines don’t pay much for their engines using “Power-By-Hour” contracts instead. From industry sources, we understand more than half the airlines utilize these contracts. On the lower side, we might see GE and CFM in high-sixties percent and…
Covid-19 not only seems to wipe out a generation of vulnerable and elderly men and women, but as a consequence of the effect it has on aviation also the vulnerable and elderly aircraft types. We witnessed this on March 29,…