US Domestic Fleet Activity
As we dig deeper into the US airline operations in 2020 we have another model to share with readers. What we have here is a track of flights from January 1, 2020, through July 23, 2020. We expect to update…
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Southwest, Spirit, and Alaska in the same boat in Q2
Unsurprisingly, Southwest Airlines and Spirit Airlines have also reported Q2 losses, both announcing their results on July 23. Southwest recorded a net loss of $-915 million or even $-1.5 billion without special items, Spirit a $-144.4 million net loss. Alaska…
Evaluating US airline domestic fleet activities
It increasingly clear that this pandemic provides US airlines with a great opportunity to rationalize fleets that had grown organically based on the near ending demand growth. Older aircraft were retired after they were really old – especially at Delta.…
A 2020 US domestic airline tracking model
COVID has done weird things to airlines and air travel the world over. None of it good. But there has been a steady stream of questions – essentially, how are the airlines coping and what are they doing to try…
US Regional Airlines Battle
When looking at ways to offer the most cost-effective airline seat in the current market, you might have thought this would be delivered by a regional jet. After all, why fly ~160 seats when you only have ~50 passengers? But…
Tracking US Domestic Flights
For a few weeks now we have been analyzing US daily domestic flights using a combination of Flightradar24 data and the TSA counts. What we’d like to share with you today is the breakdown of these flights since January 1,…