During the final week of deliberations, Airbus still hadn’t told JetBlue Airways the name of the airplane they might be...
What's inside? – Bombardier’s CEO said the partnership with Airbus doubles the expected sales for the A220’s business case. –...
As it weighed the arguments for and against heading east to London from New York and Boston, Marty St. George,...
NYT, AGM on MAX The front page of the Sunday New York Times has an expansive ‘who, what, where and when’...
The Boston-area consumer electronics company that Matt Nichols works for “used to fill up five to ten seats per week”...
The magnitude of the COVID-19 impact on air travel now compares with the September 11, 2011 terrorist attacks on the...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateApril 23, 2020Coronavirus will force airlines to make familiar asks of pilots...
Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateMay 20, 2020The Airbus A220 and Embraer E2 will reshape airline competition...
De Havilland Canada's time building the Dash 8-400 turboprop in Downsview is coming to an end as the company plans to indefinitely pause production, but is leaving the door wide open to start again to begin a new for a post-COVID-19 rebound in demand. The fourth rock from the sun is slated to become the solar system's second planet to host a powered flight. Perseverance and Ingenuity arrive on Mars on February 18. As single-aisle jets like the Airbus A321XLR take on roles once assigned for long-range twins, the more narrow cabin is going to be a battleground for increasingly complex passenger systems in the fight against commodification.
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.
Breeze Airways is on the verge of reality. The nascent airline is readying its route structure and going through its proving runs with the Federal Aviation Administration. The plan to find a new U.S. home for Azul’s sunsetting E190s predates COVID-19, but David Neeleman finds himself with inexpensive aircraft and a shifting lessor business model made for crisis.
There’s no one definition of a regional airline and that shows in the pandemic’s rebound. TAC Analysis continues its exploration of which types of regional airlines are excelling in the pandemic era, which are struggling, and what this means for the various aircraft types operating at each.
