Pelham Aviation by Michael Gutta

ROUTE ANALYSIS: Tampa Bay to Washington DC Metro Area February 24, 2019 By: Michael Gutta After my previous data scrubbing and report about Southwest Airlines’s activities at Tampa International Airport revealed their most popular destination to be Baltimore/Washington International Airport, I decided to look more closely at the Tampa Bay to DC metropolitan area air travel market. For this investigation I considered all commercial flights between any combination of St. Petersburg-Clearwater (PIE) and Tampa (TPA) to Baltimore-Washington (BWI), Washington-National (DCA), and Washington Dulles (IAD) during the year 2017, the last full year of published data. For this year, there actually were no regularly scheduled flights departing St. Petersburg-Clearwater (PIE) to the DC Metro area. I also only looked at commercial passenger carriers, so the cargo numbers reported are only for belly cargo, not scheduled cargo carriers. United B737-800 (N18243) departing runway 19R at TPA

AIRPORT ANALYSIS: Southwest Airlines at Tampa International February 2, 2019 By: Michael Gutta I recently flew on a personal vacation from Tampa, Florida (TPA) to San Jose, Costa Rica (SJO) for some fishing and time in the sun. Given that there is no direct flight between this city pair, I chose a connection through Fort Lauderdale (FLL) on Southwest Airlines. This provided 4 segments on Southwest Airlines, and my first flight on a Boeing 737 Max aircraft, as well as my first time traveling through the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. As with a previous trip, I decided to look at my carrier’s operations at TPA using publicly available data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics T-100 data tables. The last full year of published data is from 2017, and as with last time, the 3 areas I wanted to study were: the number of passengers by destination, the load factor by destination, and the aircraft type by departure. In reviewing the available data, I ignored