Old Airplane Revenge
Boeing’s 767 was introduced on September 8, 1982. In about five weeks time the 767 program will be 33 years old! Yet the program just got its biggest order to date. FedEx ordered 50 and 50 options. This is an…
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Fuel Costs and the Workhorses
We hear it all the time – fuel costs are the airlines’ biggest input cost. When looking at the data, it certainly is the largest input on flight operations. However, what does it look like for the aircraft airlines depend…
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Is Software now the Achilles’ Heel of Aircraft Design?
Recently we’ve seen a number of instances in which software problems have emerged on commercial aircraft, most recently, a glitch that could shut down a Boeing 787 in flight, rendering the electrical system that controls the aircraft useless. We’ve also…
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Comparing Flight Ops Numbers
The use of DoT Form 41 data is something many analysts argue over. Is the data reliable? (Sometimes) Do the airlines report the data honestly? (We hope) Is there reason to doubt the numbers (More often than anyone likes). Even…