Pelham Aviation by Michael Gutta

Icelandair’s US Disappearing Act February 15, 2020 By: Michael Gutta Over the course of time from 2017 to the present Icelandair has faced several headwinds, notably the competition from fellow Icelandic (non-defunct) airline WOW Air and the Boeing 737 MAX grounding. In this analysis for Pelham Aviation, I will give a brief overview of 4 US destinations briefly served by Icelandair that have since had service terminated. By total number of departures during the period of service these destinations were: Tampa (TPA), Baltimore-Washington (BWI), Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), and Kansas City (MCI). The data shown below is departures data from the 4 mentioned airports with service terminating at Keflavik International Airport (KEF). Icelandair B757-200 TF-FIR in Vatnajökull glacier livery at TPA on 11/17/2018 (Michael Gutta). Tampa International received its first Icelandair flight on September 7, 2017. Service was initially twice weekly, which was later expanded to 4x weekl...

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 ...