US airline scorecard
Wonder how the industry is doing as we get their most recent reports? Take a look at what they filed with the US DoT. Here’s the model subscribers get to work with. Top left chart: In terms of FTEs ,…
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DB1B Updated
It’s been several months waiting for the DB1B to be updated and it is so at last! The update gives a look at the entire 2020, a year that lives in infamy (to quote somebody famous). There are three databases…
The bumpy US air travel recovery
As we watch this recovery pick-up speed, it is interesting to see how many times the US airlines have tried to boost schedules in the hope traffic would bounce. Take a look at this chart. #1 – June 2020 The…
Big Pratt & Whitney win
After the maligning of the GTF from India, here comes something interesting. Frontier Airlines announced the selection of Pratt & Whitney GTF engines to power 134 Airbus A320neos. The engines will power 49 A320neo, 67 A321neo, and 18 A321XLR aircraft,…
US Airline fleet activity through September
What patterns do we find among the US airlines as they try to recover and stabilize their schedules in the midst of uncertain traffic flows? Here’s what we find among the major US airlines for single-aisle aircraft, through September YTD. …
As US airline layoffs start
This is an updated model we published some months ago. Perhaps at the time, it was not apparent just how badly the US airlines were out of balance. The US airline industry has hundreds of highly articulate people who are…