Guest Post by Timothy O’Neil-Dunne. For thirty years, I have had a nagging suspicion that one of the airline industry’s biggest stories was hiding in plain sight inside the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Form 41 data. Not in the glamorous…
As US airlines navigate their way through the pandemic, it has become clear that each airline takes slightly different paths to seek their lowest seat cost production. While seeking the lowest seat cost is a perennial goal for all airlines, …
As US airlines race to prepare for returning traffic, there is a scramble for capacity. It is the nature of this business that one has to always have extra capacity to deploy quickly. When an opportunity appears, first-mover advantage is…
That really useful dataset known as Form 41 has been updated through year-end 2020. People like to criticize this source as full of holes and unreliable. Until the data shows something they like. Regardless of your view on this data…
The use of DoT Form 41 data is something many analysts argue over. Is the data reliable? (Sometimes) Do the airlines report the data honestly? (We hope) Is there reason to doubt the numbers (More often than anyone likes). Even…
The US DoT Form 41 is treated by many as something less than truthful. Sometimes this is because the viewer does not like the data. Other times its because airlines are known to be “creative” with how they report their…