-Everyone wants to know when is the best day to buy an airline ticket and the Wall Street Journal has discovered that it is on the weekend. "The lower Sunday and Saturday prices also result from the ability social media has given airlines to throw discounts in front of consumers at any time," the article says.
-The MD-11 has made its last passenger flight, twenty four years after the tri-engine jet first went into service. USA Today reports KLM flight 672 from Montreal to Amsterdam arrived Sunday morning in the Netherlands and was the last scheduled flight for the MD-11.
-And American Airlines may be cutting flights out of Charlotte as flights to Europe haven't performed as well as executives had hoped, the Charlotte Observer reports. "While we haven't finalized our plans for next year, some of the new Charlotte routes did underperform our expectations," American president Scott Kirby said in the article.
Now we have to get rid of the American and Delta MD80/90 series aircraft. Everything Douglas designed in the jet age was, and still is, a disaster; with Rube Goldberg systems and very poor economics. Put them to bed in the desert.
Posted by: AirlineCritic | October 27, 2014 at 04:01 PM