Tag flight ops
Pilot shortage starts to bite beyond the USA
In a fascinating story on AIN, we read that now China has to make changes to its pilot rules, raising the mandatory retirement age because they are also feeling a pilot shortage. China’s growth in air travel is probably…
Premium #330 – Connectivity keeps improving
We have been tracking demand for aircraft connectivity for some time. There are several news stories that further underscore the point that demand for connectivity seems to have no upper limit. Icelandair will equip its 737 MAX fleet with ViaSat…
The correlation between airline ground time and profits
Airlines know that fast turnarounds mean profits – Southwest advertised ten-minute turns back in 1982. While there have been various claims about turnaround times, there has been a shortage of data to help determine just how important this factor is…
WheelTug offers flight operations time savings help
Airline flight operations are manifestly impacted by many exogenous events. e-Taxi company, WheelTug, has developed a method of helping airlines solve the gate pushback as part of flight operations. Based on an analysis of nearly 7,000 flights, using FlightWatching, WheelTug…
A Flight Ops Challenge – And the case for E-Taxi documented
E-taxi pioneers Wheeltug just released research (ground operations summary 31 Mar 2016) it undertook monitoring airport operations. The case for adding e-taxi capabilities to aircraft has tended to focus on saving fuel burn. But fuel burn is no longer such…