Pontifications: Horizon Q400 theft spurs thoughts about solo pilot idea
By Scott Hamilton Aug. 13, 2018, © Leeham News: The bizarre theft of a Horizon Airlines Bombardier Q400 at Sea-Tac Airport Friday night by a 29-year old employee will take some time for investigators...
View ArticleCosts for IAG’s low-cost airlines
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View ArticleEurowings, Lufthansa Group’s LCC
By Bjorn Fehrm August 30, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: The European leading legacy carriers are all forming LCC arms. First for short-haul and now for long-haul. For Lufthansa, the LCC operations are gradually...
View ArticleAir Berlin files for bankruptcy
By Bjorn Fehrm August 16, 2017, ©. Leeham Co: Air Berlin, Germany’s second largest airline, with 85 destinations, 8,000 employees and 72 aircraft, filed for bankruptcy yesterday. We wrote about Air...
View ArticleEmirates feels low-cost, long-haul competition
Note: Nov. 24 and 25 are Thanksgiving Holidays in the US. Our next post will be Monday. By Bjorn Fehrm 23 November 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Emirates Airline president Tim Clark says the carrier “has to...
View ArticleAir Berlin, Europe’s ninth carrier, announces serious makeover
By Bjorn Fehrm October 06, 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Air Berlin, Germany’s second airline and Europe’s ninth largest carrier by passengers carried, announced that it will wet-lease 40 aircraft to Lufthansa...
View ArticleTipping point for supply/demand? We don’t think so
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View ArticlePontifications: Remote control of airliners a bad idea
By Scott Hamilton March 30, 2015: In the aftermath of what a French prosecutor said was the apparent suicide-mass murder of 150 people on Germanwings 9525, there have been some calls for and questions...
View ArticleGermanwings; co-pilot deliberately crashed aircraft, had burnout during...
March 26, 2015, update 3: The Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin confirmed mid-day that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz 28, from Montabaur Germany, deliberately put the autopilot on descent in an act to...
View ArticleUpdate (3), Germanwings: Authorities confirms co-pilot deliberately crashed...
Update March 26, 2015: The Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin has confirmed that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz 28, from Montabaur Germany, put the autopilot on descent and was alive at the impact with...
View ArticleUpdate on Germanwings; news conference highlights
March 25, 2015: It’s the end of the business day in France, where the Germanwings A320 crashed. Here’s the latest: The cockpit voice recorder was recovered yesterday, badly damaged. It’s been reported...
View ArticleTipping point for supply/demand? We don’t think so
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View ArticlePontifications: Remote control of airliners a bad idea
By Scott Hamilton March 30, 2015: In the aftermath of what a French prosecutor said was the apparent suicide-mass murder of 150 people on Germanwings 9525, there have been some calls for and questions...
View ArticleGermanwings; co-pilot deliberately crashed aircraft, had burnout during...
March 26, 2015, update 3: The Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin confirmed mid-day that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz 28, from Montabaur Germany, deliberately put the autopilot on descent in an act to...
View ArticleUpdate (3), Germanwings: Authorities confirms co-pilot deliberately crashed...
Update March 26, 2015: The Marseilles prosecutor Brice Robin has confirmed that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz 28, from Montabaur Germany, put the autopilot on descent and was alive at the impact with...
View ArticleUpdate on Germanwings; news conference highlights
March 25, 2015: It’s the end of the business day in France, where the Germanwings A320 crashed. Here’s the latest: The cockpit voice recorder was recovered yesterday, badly damaged. It’s been reported...
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