The Index today is 425, up 4 points or 1% from yesterday.
HistoryOne week ago: 405, one month ago: 427, one year ago: 452
FlightExplorer has added a neat feature to its flight tracking utility. Now you can see the potential turbulence in route. You can select to track both low altitude and high altitude turbulence.
In the image below from today it looks like there is a major storm in the Southwest and Delta’s flight from San Francisco to […]
I know this is not related to air travel, but thought you might find this new tool from Google helpful. Now you can see real-time traffic congestion for major cities. Just put in your city and update the display. I’m not sure how many cities are covered, but it looks like all major metropolitan areas […]
I added a page for tracking the stock performance of the top US carriers during the course of the day.
Right now there are no charts for Delta and Northwest pending their emergence from bankruptcy.
If you would like me to add charts for other carriers, please email me.
Blomberg is reporting that Transportation Secretary Mary Peters has called for an investigation of JetBlue and American contingency planning.
The Passenger Bill of Rights really seems to be gaining momentum. It’s not clear whether this latest move by the DOT will have any impact on the success of such legislation.
The Index today is 421, down 2 points or 0.5% from yesterday.
HistoryOne week ago: 411, one month ago: 427, one year ago: 452
We have developed an easy-to-use script for displaying airfare, matching the look-and-feel of your site. You can see an example at the Yeager Airport site. You can also see a sample display from Atlanta in the left-hand column of this blog.
Right now the display shows the lowest fares from a single North American origin airport […]
Since I started reporting on the daily airfare index, I’ve had a number of questions about the cost of fuel and to what extent fuel prices influence fare increases and decreases. Every network-wide airfare increase is accompanied with an explanation and the latest favorite has been the increasing cost of jet fuel.
Certainly fuel prices influence […]
I mentioned earlier that I was experimenting with Yahoo! Pipes for tracking airline specific news. Below are links to sign up for email or RSS updates for the top US airlines. For now the news is sourced exclusively from Google News. Additional enhancements are under development.
Airline News SummarySubscribe by Email or RSS
AirTran Airways View NowSubscribe […]
The Index today is 423, up 9 points or 2% from Friday.
HistoryOne week ago: 410, one month ago: 425, one year ago: 460
