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December 28, 2015 10:36 am ET -
Airline Metrics: Available Seat Kilometers
Ashwin Jadhav, a member of our AirlineGeeks team, will begin a new series this week highlighting some of the important metrics that airlines monitor on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis to improve performance. From a passenger’s perspective,…
December 24, 2015 10:45 am ET -
TBT (Throwback Thursday) in Aviation History: LTU International
12thLufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH (abbreviated LTU) was founded in 1955 as a way to offer charter and commercial flights from Germany to leisure destinations. The airline started with short flights using Vickers VC-1s that operated around the neighboring countries. The de Havilland…
December 18, 2015 8:46 pm ET -
OPINION: It’s Time for Southwest to Enter the Regional Jet…
Here comes the world’s more unpopular opinion: if Southwest wanted to enter the regional jet market, now is the time. The airline has seen rapid expansion over the last few years with the merger with AirTran and now that it…
December 17, 2015 8:40 pm ET -
New Deal Between the US and Cuba Will See 110…
In a new deal between the United States and Cuba, US airlines will have the rights to 110 daily scheduled flights to the Caribbean island. There’s a catch though for the airlines: only 20 of those 110 flights can be…
December 16, 2015 7:30 pm ET -
TBT (Throwback Thursday) in Aviation History: Air Florida
At one point in time most states had their own airline. The Sunshine state of Florida was no different. However, unlike airlines in smaller states like Air Illinois or Air Oregon, Air Florida experienced moderate success until a tragic event…