More On-Time tracking
Here is an update to our US On-Time model. Select the city on the list and the model updates immediately. For simplicity, we show the major cities. The observant will notice the strange change in numbers from 2017 (lots of…
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“Food for Purchase”
Air travel in the US has changed over the years. An early sacrifice to the god of profits was the airline meal. Not that airline meals were a celebratory item. How many jokes are there about airline meals? Here…
Southwest Airlines pilots and the MAX
The item behind this post comes from here. The key item to focus on: “Closer to home, the advantages and disadvantages of an airline having a single fleet and having aircraft from only one manufacturer are already being discussed in…
FAA briefs airlines on MAX updates
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has briefed the US operators of the Boeing 737 MAX on April 12 on the updates that should eventually result in the re-certification of the type. Delegates from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines…
The US airline traffic score through January 2019
Yesterday the DoT updated their T-100 dataset. Here is our updated model on how the big US airlines are doing. Load factors softened but that should not be a concern yet. However, notice that load factors were pretty stable from…
US Big Four capacity growth has pushed the natural oligopoly rules
The US domestic airline market is getting tougher for new entrants as the Big Four grow ever larger. In defining the Big Four we combined appropriate pre-merger fleets for the period to allow for a fair comparison. The growth for…