by admin | Aug 25, 2011 | Boeing, Bombardier, Delta Air Lines, Embraer |
Reading various reports on the retirement of Gary Scott would have you believe it was he alone that kept the CSeries program alive. Yesterday Bombardier announced his retirement for personal reasons. It came as a surprise for many, including us. But even as we are...
by admin | Aug 22, 2011 | Boeing, Delta Air Lines |
Delta Air Lines will announce an order for 100 Boeing 737-900s tomorrow, according to several sources. Delta has been examining two potential procurements, one to replace 757s, and another to replace DC-9s. This announcement is the first of the two competitions to...
by admin | Aug 19, 2011 | Airlines, Airports, Delta Air Lines |
In an earlier post, we showed that at JFK Delta takes a lot more time taxiing than other airlines. The reaction led us to dig deeper into the data. Here’s what we find. Looking at 1H11 data from DoT, Delta seems to have an issue with taxi times at numerous...
by admin | Aug 1, 2011 | Airlines, Delta Air Lines |
Delta Air Lines just sent out the following PR: “Funding for the FAA expired on July 23. At that time, Delta stopped collecting several taxes imposed on ticket sales, including a 7.5 percent tax on the base ticket price, a $3.70 segment tax and facilities taxes...
by admin | Feb 7, 2011 | Airlines, airTran, Connectivity, Delta Air Lines, GOGO, Virgin America |
On Friday we had a chance to speak with AirCell’s, Norman Smagley, Executive Vice President and CFO. The firm has just announced another round of successful financing for $35m from its investors, this being added to $500m already invested in the GoGo service....
