Southwest is the first US airline to make a profit again. It reported a positive result on the same day when American announced a $-1.250 billion first-quarter loss. But the mood is changing for the better as American almost returned…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
Sometimes it is hard to grasp just how much of a hit the US airline industry is taking. Probably over a million words have been published about this by now. How about a few pictures to illustrate how severely the…