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How air travel costs rose after the pandemic
The US travel industry saw a much-desired and needed V-shaped recovery. The pandemic allowed the industry to do a reset. But that reset has left long-tailed impacts. Arguably, the most significant effect was the loss of skilled people . The…
How Boeing is recovering MAX deliveries
[UPDATED -for some reason the charts are not displaying] MAX deliveries have seen a few disruptions. Using data from ch-Aviation, we developed the following model to attempt to track how Boeing’s MAX deliveries have been going. We created an average…
How Southwest Airlines benefits from the MAX 8
Has US air travel changed, and how?
Yesterday, there was a fascinating TRB meeting in DC. The airline’s subcommittee session was especially interesting. There were many discussions about whether and how air travel might have changed. What does the data show? We split up the traffic and…
How is US international traffic recovering?
The I-92 is an excellent source of international air traffic data. This source tracks flights arriving and departing the US. It tracks everyone, so it is not a sample but a census. Moreover, this source reports much faster than DoT,…