Transportation
Brazil’s economy is really in the tank
I was listening to American Airline’s conference call on Friday, and was struck by a statistic about how poorly the Brazilian economy was doing: Two years ago, when the American…
São Paulo
municipality of São Paulo state, Brazil
Transportation
Charlotte Aviation baseline 2015: US Airways and American Airlines
And this would be a summary of US Airways and American Airlines fights from Charlotte Douglas International Airport for Thursday, August 13, 2015: US Airways flights by aircraft type: Widebody:…
Liberty
The skies above Charlotte are always sunny, item #5,978,134
The UPoR had a piece over the weekend on how Charlotte Douglas International Airport ranked last year. Problems in the story? Absolutely. Consider this passage, the last paragraph of the…
Liberty
US Airways/American Airlines CLT summer flight preview
US Airways and American Airlines summer schedules are now more-or-less set, so it’s time for a comparison of this summer’s flight levels as compared to last summer’s service levels: The…
Regulation
Leef’s latest Forbes piece targets the shower police
George Leef writes for Forbes about another instance of government nannies in action. When I was a child, I was often told that I had to eat food I didn’t…
Liberty
2014 Charlotte aviation baseline
Bookmark this as a reference to what air service levels were like early in the American Airlines/US Airways merger integration. US Airways and American Airlines fights from Charlotte for Thursday,…
Liberty
US Airways drops CLT – Sao Paulo
Press release out today: US Airways service from Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) to [Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport (GRU)] will be discontinued beginning Oct.1, 2014. Charlotte customers will still…
Liberty
US Airways to drop CLT – Rio de Janerio
Come some time early next year. This is a very, very bad sign, as CLT – Rio obviously isn’t even close to being a keeper for the combined carrier. US…
Liberty
DOJ willing to negotiate on US Airways/American Airlines merger
That news came out last week. Now the Wall street Journal (subscription required) is providing some sense of what the government wants US Airways sand American Airlines to give up…
Liberty
US Airways adds four (!) European routes from CLT
Typically, I go out of town for the weekend just as the city’s dominate airline loads onto its website and other reservation systems four new seasonal flights to Europe. These…
Liberty
Your 2013 aviation baseline
For reference purposes, with the impending US Airways/American Airlines merger. US Airways fights from Charlotte for Thursday, June 27, 2013: US Airways flights by aircraft type: Widebody: 10 (3 A330-300,…
Liberty
US Airways awarded Sao Paulo rights
The airline started Sao Paulo flights earlier this month, but as we’ve previously noted, that was with rights leased from United. The US And Brazil will have an Open Skies…