Any guesses how long it will be before Delta designates Miami a focus city, and LATAM starts service to Atlanta?

(Written on 2019年12月31日)(Permalink)

This headline makes it sound like Emirates and Boeing are all happy jazz hands about this order. The headline omits that Emirates also cancelled 26 orders for the 777X, which cannot make Boeing comfortable. I still see incredible similarities between the 777X order book and the initial A380 order book. One airline (Emirates) ordering the vast majority of the aircraft - and now they are already dropping orders. IMHO.

(Written on 2019年11月20日)(Permalink)

Behind a pay wall? No, thanks all the same.

(Written on 2019年10月30日)(Permalink)

We often forget how it used to be: I used to live near the Long Beach airport and would never set my alarm as an Alaska Airlines 727 would take off every morning right over my house and rattle the windows so much, the dead couldn't sleep. I was so relieved when they started buying the MD-80's and I could sleep through a take off. I did, however, start to be late for work then.

(Written on 2019年09月04日)(Permalink)

Or....maybe they know something we don't know.

(Written on 2019年08月28日)(Permalink)

No - they haven't used it as a hub for several years. They dropped their fifth-freedom flights years before Delta did. In fact, Delta is still operating two of them. Unless you consider UAL's relationship with ANA as a hub factor, but that would mean Frankfurt is a UAL hub as well.

(Written on 2019年08月21日)(Permalink)

That is one way to look at it, certainly. However when you consider that one of the world's largest airlines is leaving the airport completely, that does have reverberations.

(Written on 2019年08月16日)(Permalink)

Though it isn't stated in this article, Air France has long fretted about replacing the "outdated" interiors on their A380's. The fact that it would cost $45 million per aircraft, is what drove them to retire the model. Air France has also long bemoaned how difficult the A380 is to fill, so a smaller, more efficient, airliner makes a lot of sense. The 787 is probably not in the discussion as they are sending the 787's on order to KLM.

(Written on 2019年08月05日)(Permalink)

Also market capitalization

(Written on 2019年07月31日)(Permalink)

I guess you forgot about the A350. Clean-sheet. Yes. Response to B787? Yes. Still, clean-sheet. Therefore, Airbus has had a clean-sheet aircraft since Boeing has had one. If you're complaining about "the same thing, adding on", need I mention the 737 Max, the 777X? Come on, be fair.

(Written on 2019年07月24日)(Permalink)