The Nigerian government has promised to deliver to the country the long-awaited national carrier whose name is yet to be announced. This has brought cheers to about 10 million Nigerian air travelers in and to the over 200 million national…
News this week that Ethiopian took delivery of its 30th Dash8-400 reinforces just how much the turboprop means in Africa. Ethiopian is the continent’s biggest airline, and it keeps growing its turboprop fleet. As we can see in the next…
It took the lives of 189 occupants on board Lion Air flight LN610 (and 157 more of Ethiopian ET302 a few months later) to uncover the biggest flaw in aircraft design and certification of the Boeing 737 MAX. Much has…
Boeing is to establish a permanent Aerospace Safety Committee of the Board of Directors, which together with the company’s leadership must ensure that safety is priority number 1 in all aspects of its product design, manufacturing, and operations. The committee…
It was going to happen, as the airline industry starts to sense a slowdown. The order splurge of the past few years was unprecedented. Between them, Airbus and Boeing are sitting on a seven-year backlog in single-aisle aircraft. But because…
While China and India are the big markets to watch, it is the US market that still gets a lot of attention. To illustrate this we created a data model using the T-100 Segment All Carriers dataset. The model is…