The Air Current welcomes Courtney Miller as its new Managing Director of Analysis. Air travel is inherently a vector for...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateOctober 3, 2022Widebody aircraft rebound awaits a powerful catalyst that may not...
Airlines eagerly await a world where they only have to worry about the economy.
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateOctober 17, 2022The U.S. has a 50-seat jet problemPurchase a PDF of...
The abundance of aircraft parked around the world brings another, very human and more personal abundance - pilots. Without passengers to fly, aircraft will remain parked. With aircraft parked, some pilots find themselves the subject of a furlough. Yet, even as the industry stares down a potential sharp reduction in the overall pilot workforce, the massive change could simultaneously spark a major new wave of retraining that would overwhelm the global simulator infrastructure.
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateDecember 1, 2022Fares tell the tale of seasonality as airports stay packedPurchase...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateMarch 19, 2019737 Max airlines take cover under the wing of a...
As 2020 draws to a close, TAC Analysis reflects on the economic chaos wrought by COVID-19 on capacity, traffic (and most importantly) revenue.
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateAugust 4, 2022Aerospace settles into persistent single-aisle feast and twin-aisle faminePurchase a...
Where a Boeing 777 ends an iPhone begins. At Pinal Airpark in Marana, Ariz. a wrecking claw positioned itself to...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateNovember 3, 2022Boeing officially passes the long-haul narrowbody torch to AirbusPurchase a...
The global airline fleet is not recovering evenly. With global scheduled capacity up over 92% from April 2020, that metric serves better to illustrate just how terrible last April was than how good we find it in 2021. Compared to 2019, the global fleet is producing 53% fewer seat-miles. We’re a long way from where we were before the pandemic.