A4A's Chief Economist #JohnHeimlich, who chairs the Airlines Subcommittee of the #TransportationResearchBoard asked me to participate in their mid-year meeting held two days ago.
Read MoreHistory will look back on this administration as being the most responsible for increased prices to consumers over the last 45 years.
Read MoreFinally, the #PGAChampionship is about to get underway after a nearly 2-hour frost delay this morning. It is just cold in Rochester, NY at the venerable Oak Hill Country Club. And it is supposed to be wet on the weekend as well.
Read MoreJust back from playing in a member-guest at #BallyhackGolfClub in Roanoke with good friend #DanTrumbower. I am 65 today and I really do not want to write about pilot issues again, but I am going to. It really is a love-hate thing with me.
Read MoreFirst day of May 2023. Being born in May 1958 I qualify for Medicare. Never sure if all the mail from AARP is good or not? What I do know is that the AARP mail is better than the numerous emails I get about funeral insurance.
Read MoreI am actually looking forward to tomorrow's Reauthorization hearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Read MoreStill in the vortex of the finest 30 days in sports television. From Selection Show Sunday through the second Sunday in April in Augusta, it doesn't get better. No #1 seeds in the Elite 8, let alone the Final Four?
Read MoreI think about FAA Reauthorization circa 2023 differently. Shocker! My humble thinking embraces the KISS Principle.
Read MoreThis may be premature, but remember the song by Stealers Wheel? Maybe it was prescient regarding a #jetbluespiritmerger when it was released in 1974.
Read More...Oh, that's right, it has begun. Lots running through my head this morning. Yesterday, I wrote in detail to clients about the concept of cost convergence in layman's terms. It is complicated and it is not.
Read MoreAs I listened to last week's Senate hearing with Southwest's "meltdown" presumed to be at its "heart", many emotions/frustrations were running through my head. Except for one panelist, nothing was interesting. Nothing was consumer friendly (see below) - even though the words consumer protections were part of the hearing's title.
Read MoreIt is Groundhog Day. We are releasing the summary findings of our First Annual Airport/Air Service rankings.
Read More#ScottKirby Does Not Disappoint on UA's 4Q Call. In UA's 3Q call, UA's CEO spoke about the ULCCs and their operating model as “doomed” in the face of rising fuel and labor expenses that will make it impossible to offer the rock-bottom fares their customers expect. Fast forward
Read MoreI have written about air service at Dubuque (DBQ) many times. The trends in small community air service have been evident for a decade. The DBQs of the world are vulnerable to losing some/all air service. Particularly from the network carriers.
Read MoreThat prescient view is 30 years old. Before I begin this post in earnest, Levine made reference to point-to-point. Industry watchers have made clear that Southwest is no longer that. Rather, they connect traffic at various nodes around their system.
Read MoreThinking/hoping that 2023 is the year that we can truly call post-Pandemic. It is a FAA Reauthorization year and that can mean much to many stakeholders.
Read MoreLast week I flew to Huntsville to attend the retirement party of one of the airport community's best thinkers/Airport Directors in the business - #RickTucker.
Read MoreI, and others, are numb by the attention the mainstream press gives to points/data regarding small community air service the #RegionalAirlineAssociation (RAA) provides.
Read MoreI have all but written off the regional sector. My honest concern now is that the ULCC sector will get “crowded out” of any growth plans they may have.
Read MoreOne thing about #EdBastien, #DeltaAirLines CEO, he has been bullish on a demand rebound for some time albeit with some fits and starts as we worked through the final variants of COVID.
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