Pelham Aviation by Michael Gutta

CARRIER ANALYSIS: Copa Airlines at Tampa International Airport May 5, 2019 By: Michael Gutta With my first five blog reports I have reviewed domestic airlines, routes, and fleet changes. For my first investigation of a foreign air carrier, I have chosen to evaluate the service history of Copa Airlines at Tampa International Airport. Copa Airlines is the flag carrier of Panama, with a major connecting hub for Latin America at Tocumen International in Panama City. Copa began service to Tampa International on December 16, 2013, offering four flights weekly each way. For this blog report I decided to look back at the USDOT data all the way back inaugural flight. Unfortunately, the full-year of 2018 international flight numbers will not be published until June 13, so for now this study encompassed 4 years (2014-2017) of data, plus December 2013. Copa Airlines Boeing 737-700 registered as HP-1371 at Tampa International Airport (Michael Gutta). In the first 4 years of ser...

AIRPORT ANALYSIS: American Airlines at Tampa International December 30, 2018 By: Michael Gutta After recently flying from Tampa to Charlotte on American Airlines, I decided to look at American’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 the 3 areas I wanted to study were: number of passengers by destination, load factor by destination, and aircraft type by departure. In reviewing the available data, I ignored any seasonality effects (month-to-month variation): I looked at load factor for the full year, and the number of daily departures and daily passengers are averaged over a full year. Additionally, I only looked at departing passengers, so the total number of passengers served would be approximately double (departing and arriving). On to the results… American Airlines aircraft at Charlotte-Douglas International with Charlotte skyline on Dec. 6...