The headlines are nonstop: high fuel costs are causing airlines all kinds of financial trouble. As we’ve seen among the US airlines that have reported 3Q earnings , revenues are up strongly. But without fuel costs, they’d be gloriously profitable.…
This is another of our evolving KPIs for tracking US airlines in new ways. Delay Propagation Factor quantifies how an initial downstream or primary delay ripples across subsequent flight legs in an aircraft’s daily rotation. This helps show how resilient…
Another week has passed, and here’s how US airline traffic performed. As always, we use charts to help explain what the data tells us. Looking at the chart at the top of this post, “Shock and uneven recovery (2019–2022)”: Business…
We have been tracking daily US airline flight activity and domestic traffic since January 2019. Moreover, pandemic recovery remains important, as data show it was the US industry’s biggest shock, more impactful than 9 We have been watching this market…
We developed a new model, based on U.S. DOT data, focused on U.S. Airline Operational Performance. It generates a data-rich output with actionable insights. We will update the model monthly, and although DOT data is delayed, we are confident users…
The US DOT T-100 International Segment data was refreshed through July. Two charts offer an interesting view of market movement. The data includes some surprises; for example, Canada and Mexico’s market impact is so significant that it drives the average…