Posts tagged "duopoly"
Dozens of companies have tried to build large jetliners. Nearly all of them are gone. The Airbus–Boeing duopoly is not an accident — it is the product of the most punishing economics in manufacturing.
With Starlink now live or committed on dozens of airlines — from United's transatlantic widebodies to Qatar Airways' entire 777 fleet — free high-speed connectivity is fast becoming the defining cabin product of the decade.
Three of the world's biggest aviation markets take radically different approaches to compensating disrupted passengers. Here is a practical guide to what you are owed — and how to claim it — under US DOT rules, EU261 and India's DGCA regime.
During the pandemic, US airlines mortgaged their frequent-flyer programs for billions — and the valuations revealed that the programs were worth more than the airlines themselves. Here's how selling miles to banks became the industry's real business.
IndiGo will end its damp-leased widebody operations by late October 2026, pausing most of its Europe ambitions and leaving Air India as India's only long-haul operator until the A350s arrive.
With Navi Mumbai flying since December 2025 and Noida's Jewar airport now in scheduled service, India's two largest metros finally have second gateways. The hard part starts now.
From the first hours at a wreckage site to a final report years later, aviation accident investigations follow a rigorous international playbook. Here's how it works — and why it made flying the safest way to travel.
At the world's busiest airports, the scarcest asset isn't the aircraft or the terminal — it's the right to take off at 8am. Here's how the slot system actually works, and why it's so hard to change.
With more than 16,000 jets on order and both manufacturers sitting on roughly a decade of production, 2026 is shaping into a race defined not by selling aircraft but by building them.
India's AAIB has told Parliament the Boeing 787's fuel control switches showed no defect, and the Supreme Court has been told the final AI171 report is due in October 2026. The remaining questions are the hardest ones.