Airlines
Fleet Size
The largest:
- United/Delta/AA 900+
- Southwest 800+
- China Southern 600+
- China Eastern 600+
- Air China 500+
- Ryanair: 500+
- Turkish Airlines: 300+
- IndiGo: 300+
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)
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: 330, 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)
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
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.