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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
Flying in the US is not only crowded it is also taking more time. The time airlines take to move aircraft around on the ground is rising. It is worth considering what this means to airlines. In 2015 the average…