As we move through November, here’s an update on the US airline fleet. Through yesterday, US Airlines have taken 185 single-aisle deliveries. United Airlines has the most deliveries by a wide margin; Southwest Airlines took the honors last year. Just…
Fuel costs are an airline’s most significant exogenous input. They are impossible to control (hedging can only do so much) and can throw out any budget planning overnight. Here is a data visualization of the US airline industry using Form…
“Today, our automatic refund rule goes into full effect,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg declared in a Monday post on X. “Airlines are required to provide prompt cash refunds without passengers having to ask.” Music to US air travelers’ ears! Under the new…
This useful US DoT dataset tracks US airline payloads. It is called the T3 and is also known as the U.S. Air Carrier Airport Activity Statistics, so we modeled it. To make it easier to work with, we focus on…
Using the US DoT’s T2 dataset, we developed this dashboard that reports various aspects of the US airline industry’s performance. We made this model publicly available some time ago, but you might not have seen it. The model has a…