Spirit Airlines
Three Points: JetBlue’s economic allegory, 737 & 787 DOT audit, Europe’s new eVTOL rules
Issue No. 57
The pilot shortage is spreading beyond the regional airlines
Despite a lack of pilots, the airline industry can’t even agree there’s a shortage.
Frontier wins in JetBlue-Spirit deal
The tie-up highlights just how significantly an airline can win by losing
Spirit and Frontier merger is about the search for high-hanging fruit
The Ross and Rachel of the airline world were always meant to be together.
If 2021 was about flying again, 2022 is about higher fares & packed flights
TAC Analysis dives into a U.S. aviation recovery forecast for 2022.
A very real pilot shortage threatens to upend the U.S. airline recovery
Regional airlines are acutely exposed to the new shortage.
Until business travelers return, every airline is a low-cost carrier
As we begin 2021, low-cost carriers are in the driver’s seat.
Airlines seek 2019 rebound, but fares are missing link to recovery
With all eyes on capacity and passenger numbers awaiting the return to 2019 levels, what then?
U.S. airlines are having a knife fight on a life raft
How COVID-19 killed airline capacity discipline.
Coronavirus will force airlines to make familiar asks of pilots to stay afloat
Concessionary labor agreements ahead, but don't expect the deep cuts from the 2000s.