You have read it here several times: fuel is ~45% of operating costs for US airlines. Hence, the race to update fleets to chase the latest in engine technologies, along with wingtips and any other fuel-saving ideas. The number for…
One of our favorite US DOT datasets was updated for 1Q25, allowing us to update several models. One we’d like to share here monitors 737 MAX operations by US airlines. The US is MAX’s largest market, with Southwest Airlines as…
An opportunity is emerging in commercial aviation, ranging from 150 seats to 180 seats. There was a time when the “gap” was below 150 seats, and Airbus and Boeing seemed to be ignoring the segment. This sub-150-seat gap created an…
Air India has been directed to carry out additional checks on its Boeing 787-8 and -9 series aircraft which are powered by the GEnx engine from midnight June 14-15 before a flight departs from India. The directive from the Directorate…
As we head into the year’s big air show, expectations keep evolving. The Middle East conflict impact is playing out as this is written. Where this goes, nobody can be certain. The Air India crash is still reverberating, too. These…
It was only a few short years ago when we would be hearing Airbus talk about the Megacity to Megacity traffic flows and ongoing growth that demanded the VLA (very large aircraft). They were right about that. Even after Covid,…