The US airline industry has followed a path previously walked by the auto industry – cap in hand to Washington for help. This does make sense, given the massive disruption that hit within the past three weeks. So what are…
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…
Remember the US vs the ME3? Perhaps the wind has changed direction. Al Baker’s interest in buying into American was rebuffed. Yet here we are, we have a deal without equity, for now. One wonder’s if Delta’s move with LAN…
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…