Airlines

Fleet Trends

  • Singapore and Cathay Pacific no longer wide-body only
    • Singapore merged with SilkAir, added B738
    • Cathay Pacific merged with Cathay Dragon, added A321
  • Supersonic and electric orders: United ordered Boom Overture
  • Emirates orders smaller aircraft: A350 and B787
  • AA simplified to A320, B737, B777, B787
  • ARJ21 and C919
  • A380 retirement
  • A220 in US: JetBlue, Delta and Breeze Airways

Narrow-body Transatlantic Routes

  • United
  • Icelandair: B757.
  • Air Transat: A321LR.
  • Aer Lingus
  • TAP Air Portugal
  • WestJet
  • SAS: A321LR, 22 lie-flat seats, Copenhagen to the US.
  • Azores Airlines
  • Air Canada
  • La Compagnie: A321neo, all business class.
  • Play: A321neo, low-cost, Iceland to the US.
  • JetBlue: A321LR to London.
  • Delta

Widebody-only Airlines

  • Emirates: 380, 777
  • Thai: 350, 777, 787
  • Virgin Atlantic: 330, 350, 787
  • Air Tahiti Nui: 787-9
  • French bee: 350
  • Air Belgium: 339, 343, 748F

Full flat seats

  • ZIPAIR subsidiary of Japan Airlines NRT-LAX low cost, full flat direct access business
  • Turkish: 789, 359 all aisle access; avoid 77W
  • LATAM: 77W all direct aisle access (Brazil only); 767/789 some aisle access. Direct aisle access available in new cabin configuration on Boeing 767, 777 and 787 fleet.
  • Avianca: 787 all direct aisle access
  • Philippine Airlines:avoid 777, angle-flat; 359 ok
  • Lufthansa: new 789 may get all direct aisle access
  • British Airways: only 351 or 787-10
  • Iberia: 330/350 all direct aisle access
  • KLM: 787 ok; 777 no
  • Air France: 787/359 ok; 777 ?
  • Aeromexico: 789 ok; 788 no
  • Air Canada: 767/777/787 ok
  • TAP Air Portugal 339 ok; A321LR similar to Mint
  • Aer Lingus: 333 ok

Indigo Partners

Low cost airlines. All A320/321.

  • Wizz Air (Hungary)
  • Frontier (US)
  • Volaris (Mexico)
  • JetSMART (Chile)

Fleet Size

The largest:

  • United/Delta/AA 800+
  • China southern 600+
  • China eastern 600+
  • Air China 400+

Top rated:

  • Singapore: 150-200
  • Cathay: 150-200
  • Etihad: 50-100
  • Emirates: 250-300
  • Qatar: 200+
  • ANA: 200+
  • Japan Airlines: 150+
  • Korean Airlines: 200+ (160+80)

Airlines Metrics

  • PRASM: Passenger unit revenue, passenger revenue per available seat mile (a measure of unit revenue)
  • RPMs: revenue passenger miles or (a measure of air traffic)
  • consolidated capacity (measured in average seat miles or ASMs)
  • CASM: Unit costs

Airports

Expansions

  • Hong Kong airport 3rd runway
  • LAX airport expansion
  • Shenzhen airport satellite
  • Doha
  • Burbank airport new terminal: 2024. 14-gate, 355,000-square-foot. needed to meet current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety standards regarding runway distance to buildings

New Airports

  • Chengdu Tianfu
  • Xiamen
  • Qingdao
  • Dalian

Beijing Daxing

Shanghai

Shanghai Pudong(PVG) New Satellite Terminal

Inchoen Seoul

ICN Terminal 2

Istanbul

Istanbul New Airport, to be open in 2018. Replacing Atatürk Airport. http://buff.ly/2uXCrj5

Misplaced Wings

Is that a Japanese flag on a Singapore Airlines aircraft?

Short-haul ban

France banned air travel between cities that are 2.5 hours apart by high-speed rail on May 23.

The rail connection has to be frequent enough to allow someone to go back and forth in a day.

Only routes connecting Paris-Orly to Bordeaux, Nantes, and Lyon are affected at the moment.