Posts tagged "airline-economics"
Mishandled-bag rates fell 23% in 2025 and dropped below pre-pandemic levels for the first time, helped by an unlikely partner — the tracker travellers bought themselves. But a $6.3 billion problem still sits in the transfer hall.
EASA's fourth revision of its GNSS interference bulletin, published in July 2026, quietly reclassifies satellite navigation jamming from a rare anomaly to a standing operational risk. The change reaches into phraseology, training and ATC capacity.
GTF groundings are down 40% from peak and LEAP shop visits now turn in about 100 days. But IATA warns the real maintenance wave arrives after the current crisis clears, and the industry has no plan for it.
Global air freight rates have fallen for two straight months as the Gulf conflict premium bleeds out of the market. With shippers showing almost no appetite for peak-season charters, airlines face a second half that looks nothing like the first.
Hong Kong, Singapore and Shenzhen are pouring capital into freighter aprons, warehouses and ground fleets just as forecasters warned growth would stall. The 2026 numbers suggest the builders read the market better than the forecasters did.
A proposal to let airport operators like Adani and GMR own airlines has cracked India's aviation industry open, with IndiGo warning of a 'massive conflict of interest' and Akasa Air welcoming new competition.
A new surface movement radar at Reagan National and a long-overdue control tower in Asheville show the FAA's $12.5 billion modernization drive is finally reaching the airport surface — the place where America's closest calls keep happening.
India's aviation regulator has published the findings of eight special safety audits of Himalayan helicopter operators, exposing gaps from unmonitored pilot fatigue to broken emergency plans — and revealing how far high-altitude oversight still has to climb.
After nearly ten years of review, the FAA has certified Boeing's smallest MAX. The approval matters less for the order book than for what it says about Boeing, the FAA, and the future of the small-narrowbody market.
All Nippon Airways is putting its supersized 'The Room FX' suite into service on the Boeing 787-9 this month — a sofa-style business class with a privacy door, a 24-inch screen, and no recline motor at all.
Dozens of companies have tried to build large jetliners. Nearly all of them are gone. The Airbus–Boeing duopoly is not an accident — it is the product of the most punishing economics in manufacturing.
With Starlink now live or committed on dozens of airlines — from United's transatlantic widebodies to Qatar Airways' entire 777 fleet — free high-speed connectivity is fast becoming the defining cabin product of the decade.