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The airlines that win and lose with Russian airspace closed

Courtney Miller·March 10, 2022

In this TAC Analysis, we reveal the losers – and winners – of the recent airspace restrictions. We examine the tactics used to circumvent the restricted areas for those carriers without access and identify the few airlines still with access to the top of the world.

A British Airways A380 executes a high-performance takeoff during a flying display at the 2013 Paris Air Show.

Three Points: Reactivating A380s, BizAv’s big picture, flying the B-36 Peacemaker

Jon Ostrower·October 22, 2021

The A380 is back, sort of. Airlines are reactivating the double-deck aircraft ahead of the loosening of COVID-related travel restrictions that promise to breathe life into dormant international routes. Just don't call it a comeback for the superjumbo. By all metrics, business aviation in 2021 is thriving. Back above 2019 levels, the industry is seeing a strong uptick in new development and commercial activity, but examining Honeywell's 10-year forecasts TAC steps back to look at the uncomfortable big picture for the industry's trajectory. What was it like to fly on the Convair B-36? We listen to a first-hand recollection about an aircraft that needed six turboprops and four jet engines just to get off the ground in the early years of the Cold War.

Three Points: Non-Farnborough, predicting traffic, BA sunsets 747

Jon Ostrower·July 20, 2020

There was supposed to be an air show in Farnborough this week. And even if there was, Americans wouldn't be able to attend. Our Travel Sentiment model is reliably predicting the ups, downs and stagnation of the U.S. air traffic recovery. Here's an update. British Airways decommissions its 747 fleet, another in a series of the long goodbye to the Queen of the Skies. It's hard out there for big airplanes.

Three Points: Coronavirus may nix U.S.-Korea flying, Bombardier’s exit, A220-500 on the wind

Jon Ostrower·February 25, 2020

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Three Points: NYT, AGM on MAX, distance runners, de Havilland reborn

Jon Ostrower·June 3, 2019

NYT, AGM on MAX The front page of the Sunday New York Times has an expansive ‘who, what, where and when’...

Korean Air

The airlines that win and lose with Russian airspace closed

Three Points: Reactivating A380s, BizAv’s big picture, flying the B-36 Peacemaker

Three Points: Non-Farnborough, predicting traffic, BA sunsets 747

Three Points: Coronavirus may nix U.S.-Korea flying, Bombardier’s exit, A220-500 on the wind

Three Points: NYT, AGM on MAX, distance runners, de Havilland reborn

Russian airspace restrictions loom over nearing Air France-KLM 50 widebody deal

Without a clean grid, today’s plans for decarbonizing aviation won’t fly

Vertical Aerospace details failure sequence that preceded VX4 crash