Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateAugust 17, 2022Signs of a cooling air freight market after record heatPurchase...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateMarch 31, 2020Confusion among U.S. airlines as airplanes fly virtually empty to...
UPS and FedEx are built around delivering overnight to anywhere. That's not Amazon's game, but the company is building an empire in the sky.
Amazon is a retail company at its core, its logistics operations are in service to that end. For Amazon to directly fight FedEx and UPS, it risks doing so at the detriment of its own operations. As Amazon Air grows, its rise is not strictly zero-sum and FedEx and UPS benefit from the expanding marketplace.
As the traffic recovery continues, passengers are migrating toward different levels of service as the cabin continues on a path toward even-greater segmentation. There’s no one standard definition of what premium economy is or how it’s deployed, but there is a growing passenger preference emerging. Around the globe, premium economy is outpacing the return of other higher-fare classes
This analysis from Visualapproach.io was added to The Air Current archive on March 10, 2020. Airbus officially launched the A321XLR...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateSeptember 15, 2020Six months into the pandemic, it’s even worse for airlines...
As we begin 2021, low-cost carriers are in the driver’s seat.
What Amazon needs to do in the air is driven by the ultimate reach and purpose of the courier on the ground. Amazon has two options for the path ahead. Either way, it needs more aircraft. Competing with FedEx and UPS means diversifying into smaller aircraft, while perfecting its own rapid retail delivery means bigger freighters.
Airlines can’t get back to 2019 levels if they furlough staff and retire portions of their fleets. The expiration of the airline provisions in the U.S.’s CARES Act puts the industry’s recovery at risk as airlines decide whether to keep staff in the face of mounting losses.
The A330, Airbus's venerable twin, is stuck between aircraft that are better at being old and those that are better at being new.
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateMay 20, 2020The Airbus A220 and Embraer E2 will reshape airline competition...
