Delays at the big PANYNJ Airports
As the catchall for so much traffic, the Port Authority’s airports play a big role in the US air travel system. Hiccups in the New York area soon trickle across the US and even impact overseas markets. As we have…
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Who is the slowest on them all?
The US DoT’s On-Time database is a great place to mine for information on how effective airlines are at managing their business. After all, the core of what airline’s sell is their schedule. Airlines require customers pay 100 cents on…
Some US airline metrics
Continuing our model updates, here’s one that shows a few key airline metrics. There are only two pages, the first lists three metrics and you can select the airline to see how the data changes. On the second page, we…
Tight margins at US airlines
That the US airline industry is competitive is well established. Even in a consolidated field, the few fight for every customer. We decided to look at just how hard are they competing. Using several data sources, we built a model. …
More on US airline delay costs
Our recent post on the costs of arrival delays reported a large estimated number. Perhaps the number was too big to make an impression. After all airline revenues and expenses are in the billions. But what we reduce the numbers…
US airlines “lost” nearly $2Bn between January and April from flight delays
Looking at the first four months of 2019, we estimate the US airline industry lost $1,891,777,148 from arrival delays. The table below explains how we get to this number. Subscribers can view our updated model here . Flights that land…