“Food for Purchase”
Air travel in the US has changed over the years. An early sacrifice to the god of profits was the airline meal. Not that airline meals were a celebratory item. How many jokes are there about airline meals? Here…
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The US airline traffic score through January 2019
Yesterday the DoT updated their T-100 dataset. Here is our updated model on how the big US airlines are doing. Load factors softened but that should not be a concern yet. However, notice that load factors were pretty stable from…
US Big Four capacity growth has pushed the natural oligopoly rules
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Unpacking the fleet changes at Delta Air Lines
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Total Ground Time – A Key Operational Metric for Airlines
The adage is an airplane does not make money on the ground. If this is true then ground time is not only lost revenue, it is also added cost. Among the big three US airlines, we see that typically the…
US airline market concentration at 3Y18
Consolidation among US airlines has seen a sharp rise in the market power of a few very big companies. Looking only at the 3Y18 numbers we see the following. The big three account for over 60% of the market. Adding…