Return of the MAX
Yesterday the FAA issued its list of four key items on the MAX that need to be fixed and asked for public comment. You can see the FAA’s 96-page preliminary document here. This is the event the industry has been…
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The Evolving US Domestic Air Travel Market
The US airline industry continues to experiment, under severe (and mounting) pressure to find the optimal/least painful network deployment. We updated our models through the month-end and discovered that an under-reported factor bears consideration. Before the pandemic plunge, several smaller…
The 50 Busiest Birds
Another model update and tweak. In our Public Data Models , we have one titled Activity Tracker Model. Once you open the model please take a look at page 2. Here we list the Top 50 busiest passenger aircraft in…
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…
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…