We have been tracking the US airline on-time performance since 2016. Here’s a different look at the data, with a focus on airports. The Top 25 are selected by the number of flights. The list presented is arrival delay minutes in descending order. What we see is...
Readers know airline time isn’t free. As a passenger, you pay with your time when a flight is delayed, with scant hope of compensation. That Contract of Carriage was not written for the benefit of the traveler. What happens when we look at time from the view...
The US DoT offers several interesting datasets. One that is good to dig into is the B-43 Fleet Inventory, recently updated through year-end 2020. Take a look at this model. Remember to click the double-headed arrow to maximize the viewing. As US airlines emerge from...
We have been tracking US domestic traffic since the start of the pandemic. With another month in the rearview mirror, how are things looking? Please use the model below for lots of details – remember to click the double-headed arrow at the bottom right to...
(Co-authored with Timothy O’Neil-Dunne) Lost in the pandemic was a pause in an ongoing epidemic of almost Biblical proportions. We are talking about the US practice of bluffing true flight times AKA schedule padding. With the resurgence of planes in the sky as...
