by Spyros Georgilidakis | May 12, 2021 | News
Yesterday Allegiant Air announced that they will be hiring 184 pilots over a period of a few months. This is a substantial increase for the airline! The pandemic found Allegiant in the tail end of a transformation. About a year earlier, the airline had finished its...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Apr 27, 2021 | News
16 years ago today, the Airbus A380 flew for the first time. The imposing double-decker was a promising prospect, but now faces a troubled future. On this day, 27th of April 2005, F-WWOW, the first prototype of the Airbus 380, lifted off in Toulouse, France. It was a...
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by Spyros Georgilidakis | Apr 22, 2021 | News
Breeze Airways claims that it is not competing with other airlines in 80% of its summer routes! What does that mean? Is it even possible? Breeze is a hotly anticipated airline. Its founder and CEO is David Neeleman, a “serial airline founder”. Some say that the way to...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Dec 2, 2020 | News
Computer Power has not only defined the scope of Hub & Spoke and Point-to-Point airline operations. Computers literally shaped entire airline fleets. This article looks at how airlines bounced back and forth between the two systems, in large part because of...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Nov 29, 2020 | News
The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the demise of four-engined aircraft. But ironically, it revitalized the hub & spoke model that these planes were meant to serve. This still won’t save these aircraft, but it has interesting effects for the airlines that used them....
