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Brian Sumers

@briansumers

Editor of The Airline Observer, an airline business newsletter. Previously wrote for @skift, @aviationweek & @cntraveler. @medillschool grad. @uclaanderson mba.

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Good assessment of Frontier Airlines new priorities via Brian Sumers. Frontier Goes Full Euro: As promised, CEO Barry Biffle briefed analysts on several changes he hopes will return the airline to profitability. The gist: he wants to copy Ryanair. theairlineobserver.com/p/frontier-goe…

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.Air Lease Corp CEO and industry vet Steven Udvar-HĆ”zy when Brian Sumers Skift asked what kind of airline he’d start now: ā€œI’d find the most expensive psychiatrist in Beverly Hillsā€ to talk him out of it.

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CEO of Southwest Airlines Bob Jordan just got asked Skift if Southwest will move to DFW Airport in 2025. He said Southwest has talked to DFW Airport about a ā€œmodest presence.ā€

CEO of <a href="/SouthwestAir/">Southwest Airlines</a> Bob Jordan just got asked <a href="/skift/">Skift</a> if Southwest will move to <a href="/DFWAirport/">DFW Airport</a> in 2025.

He said Southwest has talked to DFW Airport about a ā€œmodest presence.ā€
Leslie Josephs (@lesliejosephs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Delta is cutting some corporate/mgmt employees as it seeks to get a handle on costs. Frontline workers not affected. $DAL cnbc.com/2023/11/01/del…

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Visuals of the First plane of the new Mexicana de Aviación, an airline of the Government of Mexico, that will be operated by the Secretariat of National Defense and that is expected to launch on 1st December. šŸ“øXimena Garmendia #aircraft #aviation #airlines

Visuals of the First plane of the new Mexicana de Aviación, an airline of the Government of Mexico, that will be operated by the Secretariat of National Defense and that is expected to launch on 1st December.

šŸ“øXimena Garmendia

#aircraft #aviation #airlines
Arindam Majumder (@ari_maj) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: India's largest airline IndiGo plans to move away from one-size-fits-all model to have a business class in its āœˆļø A few 222 seater A321 will have 16 business class seats in 2*2 configuration against 3*3 in economy: m.economictimes.com/industry/trans… #aviation

Ross Feinstein (@rossfeinstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great analysis via The Airline Observer Brian Sumers: "As for the deal, I like it. Hawaiian has been overmatched, and in an industry in which size and scale mean everything, I’m not sure it had much of an independent future. For too long, nothing has gone right for Hawaiian. Its

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So Brett Snyder Brian Sumers and I decided to put our aviation brains together: We're excited to launch The Air Show, a new podcast on the business of the sky. A very special thanks to our launch partners Intelsat & Plusgrade Team for giving us our wings. open.spotify.com/show/6I0kcAPtZ…

Brett Snyder (@crankyflier) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our newest episode of The Air Show is up and this week, Brian Sumers, Jon Ostrower, and I tackle JetBlue and its strategic issues. Listen wherever you get your pods... Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/6I0kcAPtZ… Apple - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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The third episode of The Air Show with Brett Snyder, Brian Sumers and our amazing producer Sara Fay just dropped. It's simply titled The Boeing Episode open.spotify.com/show/6I0kcAPtZ…

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The Air Show episode 5 is here: A tale of (my) two cities. A fun one as we dive into Boston and Seattle with lots of number crunching from Brett Snyder. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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It's not just Boeing causing aviation havoc. This is the best explanation of the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine mess that have hamstrung Spirit, JetBlue and others: From: Jon Ostrower Brett Snyder Brian Sumers podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/air…

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To go along with this deep feature from The Air Current, Brian Sumers and made Embraer and its next airplane project the topic of our most recent episode of the The Air Show podcast. Dive in. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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Want to understand why American Airlines' Vasu Raja just got canned? This May 2 episode of The Air Show with @briansumers, Brett Snyder and I breaks it all down: "...how much patience does Robert Isom have for this strategy? Vasu owns this, right?" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ame…

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"I have never seen airline executives as angry as they are right now...there's absolutely nothing they can do about it except complain." The Airline Observer's editor, Brian Sumers, on the aviation industry's ongoing supply chain issues.

Brett Snyder (@crankyflier) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Air Show is back! This week, Jon Ostrower, Brian Sumers, and I talk about the revolutionary war... but also, the brewing Breeze/Avelo/JetBlue/others battle in Connecticut. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…