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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…
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3 Links I Love: Sabre Warms to NDC, OneJet and WOW Air Face Trouble
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This week’s featured link: Sabre Agrees to Pilot New Technologies With American Airlines and Other Travel Giants – Skift Distribution-giant Sabre spent a long, long time fighting against the use of NDC to modernize airline…
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If You Think Fares Are Confusing for Travelers, What About the Poor Pricing Analyst?
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When I first came out of college in 1999, I started work as an analyst in pricing & tariffs for America West Airlines. I realize I sound like an old man when I say this,…
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The Grave Threat Posed by Aircraft Thieves (or Not)
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When I first heard that a non-pilot had stolen a Horizon Air Dash-8 Q400 and flew around Seattle for an hour, I couldn’t help but be impressed. How could someone who doesn’t have a license…
