Aviation Unscripted

Any community working to retain and recruit commercial air service will be well served to take the 14 minutes for a 7-step review of the new imperatives in working to assure connectivity with the air transportation system.

SMS - Safety Management Systems - are now required for all USA Part 139 airports. Every person working at the airport comes under this new program. There are new staffing and record-keeping requirements to navigate. Log on and get clear insight from Captain John Cox, of Safety Operating Systems, Inc., one of the nation's foremost aviation safety experts.

A must-view for airport managers and air service staff. We go into the core issues surrounding Southwest's future strategies. As the only airline to actually open new markets during the CCP-Covid pandemic, it is now ready to consolidate and build on filling out its route system. We cover how despite the shady claims made by some ASD consultants, Southwest's route planning was entirely internal, and the 18 stations opened are now successful. The three priorities of the airline are outlined, and it's clear that the CEO puts the airline's success as due to the employee team. Log on for straight talk between Mike and Mr. Jordan

A candid discussion on the difference and the value equations between ULCC service and network carrier service. Just having ULCC flights does not open a community to economic development. It's a different transportation modality.

Straight talk from one of the nation's most aggressive and innovative ULCCs.

Boyd Group International's Mike Boyd hosts a quick session regarding the strategies of Sun Country, one of the most innovative and aggressive - and focused ULCCs.

The concept of eVTOL advanced air mobility is exciting. In fact, Boyd Group International believes some of the benefits have been understated. But there are five key areas that MUST be addressed immediately, or the concept cannot - repeat cannot - come about. We look at facility needs, airport re-design, CFR, and the fact that there is no reliable, ethical supply chain for batteries. Invest seven minutes where we go beyond the veneer scripts that are ignoring hard facts.

Simply stated, fleet changes taking place at US airlines are materially shifting where scheduled passenger service can be supported. Small communities need to understand that the elimination of viable economics of small jets also tends to eliminate potential for recruiting air service. We cover this, and the new paths that airports - particularly those in smaller communities - need to pursue.

When the dust settles from the China balloon incident, trans-Pacific air traffic will be decimatedg. The blatant hostile action of China's military sending a spy aircraft - in this case, a balloon - to travel across the USA has delivered bombshell revelation to the criminals running China. And that gives the CCP an open opportunity to invade Taiwan at a fraction of the cost and risk of a traditional Normandy-style operation. The USA under Biden is comatose in regard to threats. Take seven minutes to get a perspective that goes beyond the pap found in the mainline media.

Join us for an incisive perspective of where Southwest needs to head in the future. Here's a hint: Its three main former competitive advantages have pretty much evaporated. It's not inconsequential.

The holiday meltdown at Southwest has unmasked a number of crossroads forthe carrier in meeting the future. It's a connecting carrier (38% of total passengers) but with a very different aircraft routing model. As we'll cover, the core market advantages that Southwest once had have changed markedly - pointing to a need for the airline to re-think some of its core traditional strengths. Join us for some thought-generating perspectives that aren't being discussed anywhere else

We cover it all where others fear to comment. How scattershot air service planning will leave communities in the air service dust. How international service is coming to secondary USA cities. The potential for intra-regional air logistics. How fixing the pilot shortage is eliminating a lot of rural air service. Invest the time. Join us

Trends To Watch: - JetBlue Acquisition of Spirit: Major positive consequences; - US Airlines May Already Be "Recession-Ready" - Small Community Air Service - The Die is Cast. Tumble To Reality. - Mesa/AA Deal Is Harbinger For Future Role of (misnamed) "Regional Airlines." - International: Trans-Atlantic Spikes For Secondary US Airports. Asia Demand Is Dead -- And May Get Worse. - New Intra-Regional Logistics Systems In The Works? - eVTOL: Time To Replace Hype With Meeting Tough Challenges --

Riots In Zhengzhou represent dynamics that may eventually affect Louisville, Raleigh, Saginaw and dozens of other USA regions. Invest 6 minutes for an exploration of how the draconian and inept CCP is zapping China's economy, and how this will affect how we do business in the USA. Unfortunately, adding to this, there could additional draconian actions taken against protesters by the criminal government in Beijing. Add the backlash to already crimped China-USA trade flows, and a lot of shelves may be empty at the local mall by 2Q 2023.

Get ready. We're not taking any prisoners here. Bottom line is that a lot of communities are missing economic opportunities for the local airport simply by using resources to attract air service that won't work. A lot of airports are getting misled into programs that have no earthly chance of recruiting flights at the local airport. Take 12 minutes with us, as we review how most air service development programs simply don't achieve goal, mainly because a lot of them don't have any goals. We do a short piece from Mike Black of Paige/Black, a boutique marketing consulting firm that we've worked with in the past. Then we touch on the myriad misconceptions regarding the airline system, the changes in economics, and the raw fact that air service will regionalize.

Here's some heresy - but truth. The average major airline seat size - width - has actually increased in the past 30 years, and is continuing to do so as more new single aisle airliners from Airbus and Embraer are brought into us fleets. Plus, the media stories that airlines have shrunken seat width in the past ten years are completely fake news. Log on for some facts.

In this video for the first time, a direct and clear exploration is accomplished of the airline service fiascos of the past year, with the insight of Captain Dennis Tajer, communications chairman of the Allied pilots association. Just hard facts, no parochial axes to grind. We are covering a lot of ground - invest the time to get hard facts that the media does not cover. The airline challenges seen in the last year are due to mistakes and miscalculations resulting from the massive changes brought on by the near-total shutdown of the industry due to the CCP--Covid pandemic. The fact is that no airline had any experience with this type of complete demolition of revenue and operations. As a result, there were miscalculations.

Invest 10 minutes for a new perspective on the economic torpedoes heading this way. No other source wants to call the political malarkey for what it is. We do. We have 8%--10% inflation, and don't think for a second that the jive coming out from Washington won't make it worse. The business foundations of airports, airlines, suppliers, etc. will be changed -- and it will vary by sector and by geography.

We are candidly listing the most important service policy changes that are needed to gain back consumer confidence and shortstop further intervention from the DOT and the occupant in the White House. Invest 12 minutes for insight that challenges both consensus thinking and the political drivel that the airline industry's own outdated customer service rules is actually encouraging. The ball is in the airline industry's court. Make changes or the feds will make their own.

In this special Vox Deorum session of Aviation Unscripted, we are talking with Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic. There are a lot of latter day gurus who are confidently predicting the new Boom Overture airline will be a failure. Just like the Concorde. These folks are more wind that substance.They seem to think that this is still 60 years ago, when the Concorde came out. Experts with no expertise. Log on and find out the nitty-gritty behind this new airliner.

By the end of 2023, as many as a dozen airports in the Northwest will be reduced to being able to support no more than one commercial flight daily, due to continued retirements of uneconomic small airliners. It's a continuation of a process in place for over 30 years, and cannot be reversed due to cost, consumer patterns and economic realities. In just 7 minutes, Unscripted outlines the contining decline in rural and small community air service due to increasing cost of small airliner operations. From a fleet capacity floor of 19 seats at major network carrier systems in the 1980s, changes in communication channels and the raw costs of airline operation have now raised that to 65-76 seats. In this process, more 50-seat jets are declining in economic viability. The traffic bar for supporting scheduled commercial service is continuing to exceed the ability of some communities to attract any scheduled flights at their local airport.

We're adding the latest Boyd-Swelbar Unvarnished video to this week's Aviation Unscripted. Invest the time - covering areas that other sources skirt. It's a wide-ranging but incisive and sometimes iconoclastic discussion of issues such differing effects of inflation on various geographic air travel segments, the effects expected by meltdowns in the EU, how airlines have dropped the ball in regard to customer service recovery, and a whole lot more. So log on and take a look... then check out our Boyd-Swelbar Unvarnished channel on Rumble.

Join Us! A special video discussion/seminar that covers the hot buttons airport planning needs to consider in the now post-pandemic future. - How traditional passenger forecast methodologies are now completely obsolete. - Why traditional air service development “market studies” and “leakage analyses” are based on metrics that no longer apply to the new air transportation system. - Geographic and demographic changes taking place in regard to air traffic demand. Past O&D data are not reflective of the future. - How programs such as EAS and the Small Community Air Service Development grant program are focused on recreating the past, instead of building for the future. - The need to implement programs to encourage economic growth at small airports, instead of just trying to attract air service that generally is consumer-obsolescent. - The enormous opportunities open to small and rural airports in both economic recruitment and the expansion of rapid-delivery logistics. Larry Krauter and Mike Boyd tackle issues that need to be openly put on the future planning table – issues that often run counter to past thinking. Log on and join us. And let us know your thoughts!

We are outlining the specific areas that airports need to review immediatly to deal with what is, clearly, an economic downturn. Airport planning needs to get into full metal jacket mode. The environment is about to change - or, more correctly, it's already changed. Regardless of whatever definition the inhabitants in the White House may decide, the fact is that air traffic demand is already reflecting a recession. The current capacity pull downs are due not just to pilot shortages, but a projected shortage of air passenger demand. Invest eight minutes with us and get a new perspective - one that will be predicted in the media by the fourth quarter - after its already here.