Airways Podcast

Vinay and Rohan head west to discuss airport changes in Europe, Latin America and North America. In Europe, they start off in Stockholm (1:31) and make their way through the Continent, while also covering Russia and Turkey (you can look forward to hearing Vinay school Rohan on Russian airport pronunciations). Next, they make the long jump across the Atlantic to cover Latin America (38:25) beginning with Rohan's favorite country, Chile. Then they'll travel up north, inching closer to the U.S. border before chiming in on Mexico, particularly in context of the Trump administration and the implications on passenger numbers and the Mexican aviation industry. After making their way around the world, they finally land back in the good 'ol US of A (55:00) and cover airports from Sea to Shining Sea. Oh, and they do conclude on a Canadian note, eh (1:21:00).

Vinay and Rohan invite you to join them a special two-part series featuring airport traffic changes from around the world. This week, we hit up Oceania, Asian, African and Middle Eastern airports that experienced the most salient passenger traffic adjustments. We'll not only provide objective data on the numerical changes, but also our insight and analyses explaining the trends. We start off in Oceania (4:05) wrapping up in Auckland and landing in Mumbai (11:02) and covering the Subcontinent. Next, we'll cover the largest connecting market from South Asia, aka the Middle East (23:36) with a unique take on Iran's traffic developments with a split-airport strategy. Heading South, we briefly cover Africa (38:00) then loop East to Southeast Asia (41:00) and North Asia (1:02:04). We conclude by covering the mysterious, yet fascinating People's Republic of China (1:09:15). We'll bring you part II next week!   For a limited time only, Airways Podcast listeners get 15% off their first Cranky Concierge travel support

This week, Vinay and Rohan conclude their synopsis of the Q4 and FY 2016 earnings with coverage of airline earnings. But first, a bonus gift for our listeners: learn how you can get 15% off of Cranky Flier's Cranky Concierge travel service (1:55). In the core segment, they head to Seattle to talk about Alaska Airlines' earnings results (4:45) during the quarter in which its merger with Virgin America. They then move across the coast to the District to slice and dice the major takeaways of Donald Trumps' meeting with major U.S. carrier CEOs. Finally, they hop onto a 787-10 (maybe someday, or at least an A350-900ULR from Newark/New York in the near future) to Singapore to talk about SIA's large Boeing order for the 787-10 and 777X.

Your Airways Podcast duo Vinay Bhaskara and Rohan Anand continue their coverage of the Q4 and FY 2016 earnings reports for American (2:25), Southwest Airlines (18:42) and JetBlue (28:18). Extending beyond the usual humdrum of strong earnings, we analyze and dissect attributes unique to each airline, and baseline them against broader trends in the industry, to create our interpretation on revenue forecasts, Wall Street reactions and potential customer perceptions. For the route gurus, we did a hybrid of network beat and core, where we do a rapid fire on new route developments (36:10) like Air India to Washington, Finnair's A340 retirements, Aer Lingus to Las Vegas, Frontier's growth in Cincinnati and Cleveland and more. 

We head to Iceland this week in the Network Beat bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, where Creator and Co-Founders Vinay Bhaskara and Rohan Anand dissect the Whos, Whats and WOWs of Islandia.  We start by delving into the strategic importance of Rekjavic's Keflavik International airport (1:30), paying close attention to the capacity breakdown at KEF and its unique connecting model as a transit and stoppover point between Europe and North America. We'll then discuss Icelandair (6:40), the largest carrier at KEF airport with over 50% of the market share, its innovative and FREE "stoppover program," and the future of its network and commercial strategy with the 737-MAX entering the fleet later this decade to replace its workhorse 757s. We compare this to WOW Air (11:55), comparing the use of larger, widebody and Airbus-exclusive fleet. The remainder of the episode, we'll do some additional compare and contrasts on the successes, threats and opportunities for Icelandair and WOW, and how these two will vie for s

This week Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and columnist Rohan Anand kick-off the first Airways podcast of 2017, starting with in-depth coverage of the Q4 and FY earnings reports for Delta (1:42) and United (19:47), who posted their results during the earlier half of the month. No conversation of the Big Three in the U.S. can take place without bringing up American Airlines, who, despite not reporting Quarterly and Fiscal Year results at the time of recording, had still taken headlines with the details of its new Basic Economy product (33:52). Finally, the duo decided to stay in the contiguous 48 this week and concluded on a somber note by discussing the retirement of United's 747-400 fleet by the end of 2017 (50:37). 

*RE-UPLOAD TO CORRECT FILE ERROR* This week Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and columnist Rohan Anand conclude 2016 by recapping the top stories of year. The team discusses various leadership changes within the industry (1:42), major labor deals reached throughout the year (4:43), the breakup between Alaska and Delta (8:34), Delta's codeshare agreement with Korean Air (10:34), the DOJ's changing position on joint ventures (12:41), new international service launched during the year (17:24), security problems and terror threats (21:03), product improvements (22:12), Delta's Bombardier C-Series order and interesting aircraft/routes to fly (23:12), and a fun wrap-up (31:50).

This week in the Network Beat bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and Columnist Rohan Anand discuss Qantas' new London-Perth route debuting in 2018 (0:14), and the potential for the route to be transformative (4:41).

This week Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and columnist Rohan Anand discuss the DOJ granting its stamp of approval for the Alaska/Virgin America merger (1:20), the DOT clearing Norwegian Air International to grow long-haul service in the United States (12:56), Avianca seeking out a joint venture partner (23:28), and President-Elect Donald Trump criticizing Boeing for the price of Air Force One (34:12).

This week in the Network Beat bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and Columnist Rohan Anand discuss Aeroflot looking into potential joint ventures (0:28), the fading importance of airline alliances (0:36), and where Aeroflot is going (1:27).

This week in the Deep Dive bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and Columnist Rohan Anand discuss Thai Airways International, providing an overview of the carrier (1:27) and discussing what is going on at Thai (3:57). 

This week Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and columnist Rohan Anand discuss United Airlines’ debut of its new Basic Economy product (1:33), Delta and Aeromexico's recently approved joint venture (16:05), the DOT granting Beijing-Los Angeles route authority to American Airlines (25:15), and Emirates' falling profitability (32:52).

This week Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and columnist Rohan Anand  discuss American Airlines’ new premium economy cabin on the 787-9 (1:20), Delta revealing the details of its premium economy product (3:16), Ryanair entering Frankfurt Airport (16:28), Lufthansa’s profitability on all 70 of its long haul routes this fall (32:54), Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways facing revenue challenges (38:30), and our weekly short takes (47:35).

This week in the Deep Dive bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and Columnist Rohan Anand discuss Alitalia at the request of Italianpizzadude20 from iTunes providing an overview of the carrier (1:00) and discussing why Alitalia is losing money (2:18). 

This week in the Network Beat bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and Columnist Rohan Anand discuss British Airways announcing a new Fort Lauderdale - London Gatwick route (1:55), British Airways' strategy at London Gatwick (4:45), the London Heathrow-New Orleans route (9:32), and lots of route possibilities still on the table for BA (12:26)

This week Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and columnist Rohan Anand  discuss the Alaska/Virgin America merger (1:18), American, Southwest, and JetBlue's Q32016 earnings results (2:08), new developments on the third runway at London Heathrow (43:15), Cathay Pacific's uncertainty (46:25), and our weekly short takes (53:48)

This week in the Deep Dive bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara, Columnist Rohan Anand, and special guest Brett Snyder of the Cranky Flier blog (www.crankyflier.com) discuss air service development and changes at LAX (1:17), United's strategy versus that of American and Delta at LAX (8:15), the Asian market in LA (18:20), and secondary LA area airports (24:01)

This week Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and columnist Rohan Anand are joined by special guest Brett Snyder of the crankyflier.com blog to discuss the Alaska/Virgin America merger (1:18), Q3 2016 earnings for Delta, United, and American (14:22), and Air India recording its first operating profit in a decade (38:48)

This week, Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and guest host Benet Wilson of Aviation Queen LLC discuss the Qatar Airways order for up to 100 Boeing airplanes (0:35), American Airlines re-banking its Philadelphia hub (12:54), China Southern ordering 12 Boeing 787-9s (21:04), Trump vs. Clinton on aviation (28:45), and our weekly short takes featuring Airbus A380 (42:27).    Find Benet’s work at http://www.aviationqueen.com/. 

This week in the Deep Dive bonus segment of the Airways Podcast, Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and Columnist Rohan Anand discuss Copa Airlines (0:17)), Copa’s powerful hub in Panama City (3:47), and how Latin America’s economic woes will affect Copa (8:28)