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3 Links I Love: United Next, Avelo’s Poor Operation, Air Canada Warning, Southwest Fluff

This post has been updated to reflect a problem with the data regarding Avelo’s operation. The airline did not fly all those flights in the middle of the night, and it appears to be some kind of time zone issue on certain days. The chart should be correct after the first 10 days or so, but Avelo has now sent me its correct data. You can see that here.

This Week’s Featured Link

United Next Investor Presentation – United Airlines
If you want to see more of the numbers behind United’s plan, this presentation is full of them. See if you think the plan makes sense to you.

Chart of the Week

Avelo Arrivals Within 14 Minutes of Schedule – June 2021

Avelo is having a rough start operationally as well as commercially. Thanks to Flightradar24 for pulling the raw “wheels up to wheels down” flight times for the month of June. I assumed a 15 minute taxi on each end (which seems generous considering the airports used) and then measured on-time percentage versus the filed schedule. The beginning of June saw nothing on-time. It looks like Avelo actually rescheduled its flights to go at crazy hours, but I went off the original plan for this chart. Let’s put it this way. During the month, 33 flights arrived between midnight and 5am. Only in the last week has the airline began to put toether some semblance of a respectable run. See the note at the top of the post regarding accuracy of the data.

Two for the Road

Air Canada fights back, disputes $25 million DOT fine – PaxEx.aero
If you thought it might start being safe to book Air Canada again now that the airline has begun offering refunds, this might make you think twice. It’s not a good look for any airline.

How Gary Kelly Changed Southwest Airlines – Texas Monthly
This is quite the puff piece. Why am I posting it? I want to see the comments on this argument that Gary Kelly is a better CEO than Herb was.