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Spirit’s Current and Future CEOs on Growing the Three Pieces of the Network (Across the Aisle)
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At this year’s International Aviation Forecast Summit, I was particularly excited to have a chance to sit down with Spirit. Last year when I spoke to CEO Bob Fornaro, we talked about a variety of…
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3 Links I Love: Interviewing Scott Kirby, The First Airport Hotel, Wake Up Airplane
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This week’s featured link: United Airlines President on Turning Skeptics Into Believers – Skift As you know, I love interviews. Here’s one with Scott Kirby, United’s President. Two for the road: Fresh News About Old…
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OneJet “Temporarily” Suspends Its Flights, But a Return to the Skies Would Be Surprising
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It was just two weeks ago that I wrote about ominous clouds hovering over OneJet. Now there’s been another blow: flights and bookings have been suspended. The company says it will resume selling tickets in…
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It May Be a Mistake For United to Grow Dulles
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I’m not done with Scott Kirby just yet. In the same media gathering where I asked about yesterday’s topic, scope relief, someone else asked about the future of the Washington/Dulles hub. I’ll just paste Scott’s…
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United Has a Shot at The Regional Flexibility It Craves
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At the International Aviation Forecast Summit last week, United President Scott Kirby was unsurprisingly in high demand. After his presentation, he took a few minutes to sit with a handful of media so we could…
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3 Links I Love: Voting on the Future of MEX, Essential Air Service Saved, Killing the Train
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This week’s featured link: Lopez Obrador Commits to Unorthodox Vote on $13 Billion Airport – Bloomberg The Mexico City airport saga continues. The incoming president promised he’d stop constructing the new airport (which is already…
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Chicago Loses Asia, New York Loses Europe, and Philly Goes Boutique in American Network Changes
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I spent most of this week at the Boyd Conference (properly known as the International Aviation Forecast Summit). While I have plenty of posts to compile from that, it’s something that wasn’t announced at the…
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A Delta 737-800 Brings Me Home From the Carolinas (Trip Report)
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After a week bouncing around the Carolinas, it was time to come home. As is always the case when we return from visiting the in-laws in North Carolina, we had the choice of a connection…
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On-Time Performance Has Suffered This Summer, But Some Aircraft Fared Better Than Others
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Thanks to a mess of bad weather in the eastern half of the country, it has been a rough summer for airline operations. I swear it’s been so bad lately that any day I don’t…
