Looking back at 2021 using the DB1B

by | Jun 7, 2022 | Airlines | 0 comments

The DoT updated their DB1B datasets and here is a model that offers some interesting insights into how the US travel market ended last year. On page 1 we offer four charts. (select the state of origin to see each market) Passenger volume at the top left shows...

Flight Planner Update

by | Jun 2, 2022 | Airlines | 0 comments

Summer air travel is coming to the US and it is a very good idea to plan accordingly. The industry news isn’t great – what with staffing shortages and schedules being cut back.  The great travel bounceback is racing headlong into shrinking capacity, which...
On-Time Arrivals update

On-Time Arrivals update

by | May 2, 2022 | Airlines | 0 comments

With the data for February published, here’s our US air travel planner update. The age-old advice applies: If the schedule is important, take the earliest flight you can. The greener the better. The table shows a lot of yellow and red. JetBlue is struggling as...

Experimenting with a new metric

by | Apr 27, 2022 | Airlines | 0 comments

Regular readers know that several times we have focused on airline flight operations on a per-minute basis. We have especially focused on costs per minute.  You may recall that we previously estimated the US airline industry operated at $98 for flight ops/minute.  The...