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Surging coronavirus infection rates aren’t slowing U.S. air travel rebound, yet

Courtney Miller·June 24, 2020

For the first time in over three months, the Transportation Security Administration screened over 600,000 passengers. Yet, as optimistic as the almost seven-fold increase in traffic from its lows may be, it still requires context that overall numbers remain down more than 77% from the same point in 2019 and now facing a surge in new U.S. COVID-19 cases.

A Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 climbing out from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in September 2019.

The hard and frustrating math behind airline pilot furloughs and buyouts

Courtney Miller·June 19, 2020

In this TAC Analysis, we focus on these nuanced dynamics of the airline pilot seniority list, and the ways in which the airlines and pilots could work together to weather this unprecedented excess in payroll.

An ATR 72-600 simulator at the company's training base in Toulouse, France in May 2019.

Airlines stare down simulator logjam once pilot furloughs hit

Courtney Miller·June 8, 2020

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.