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Thanks to Reuters who went through all the numbers and compiled them into a handy list (I just put them in this chart — “change” is compared to the same time period last year).
Takeaways from these numbers are:

Overall Traffic was down in September by approximately 7%, caused by a combination of higher prices and the [...]

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CNBC noted on Friday that at least one trade in the NYMEX oil trading pits dropped below $100 per barrel – oddly enough this noteworthy occasion occurred at the same time Ike was steam rolling into the Texas Gulf Coast.
As I continue to get the “When are airline ticket fuel surcharges going to start rolling [...]

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Continental announced today (following both United and US Airways) that they were changing their frequent flier policy to credit frequent flier accounts with exact flown mileage – instead of decades old standard of 500 mile minimum per flight — I figured it was time to show some estimated stats of the impact or potential impact [...]

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Our new “Best Time to Buy” technology — in testing in our labs now — shows the steep jump in airline ticket prices for holiday travel this year.
For those math wizards out there “between 50 cities” turns out to be around 1200 city pairs (markets) where we average the cheapest departing roundtrip price for each [...]

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I did a post a few days ago on airport morning departure times to avoid and from the comments it was clear I needed to clean it up a bit to be more useful. So here goes.
This time I picked a typical Monday (August 18, 2008) and counted both departures and arrivals per hour (previously [...]

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While I was watching the Olympics last night, I flipped open my laptop and started playing with the flight schedules (my apologies to you synchronized divers, but as most of you know, I do love my statistics).
Anyway, I have always wondered which hours would be the best to avoid at my home airports (DFW, DAL), [...]

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I must have gotten 30 calls last Wednesday when the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) released their 1st Quarter 2008 report on airfares.
Unfortunately I was out of town Wed/Thurs, but I decided this weekend to pull the raw data from the BTS site and do my own analysis for a couple of reasons:

Reading the report [...]

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Tonight I decided to massage some historical flight schedules to see how much of the announced capacity cuts have kicked in.
I basically took the flight schedules as they existed the 1st of July 2007 comparing them to the flight schedules as they existed on 1st July 2008 (couple of weeks ago).
For the comparison I checked [...]

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The announcement today by United Airlines of cuts in capacity should have passengers wondering what aircraft (if any) they will be flying in the coming year.
We decided to pull in-depth information on which airports and routes are affected by these cuts.
It is important to note that retiring these aircraft doesn’t imply that the cities and [...]

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Last week I posted a note on which cities lost the most scheduled fall air service – a sneak peak at some of the underlying research I was doing for an article.
This week I thought it was only fair to highlight those cities on the flip side — which have gained more scheduled fall air [...]

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