Boyd+Swelbar Demolish Traditional Small Airport Air Service Thinking

What We're Unvarnishing Today...

Take a minute to ponder the following realities:

1. The current assumption that every small community needs scheduled service is not only bogus, but economically counter-productive.

2. Efforts such as the Small Community Air Service Development Grant program (SCASD) are based on fundamentally flawed assumptions and have done little for small airports.

3. The pilot shortage has cut some small community service – but most of it was eventually inevitable.

4. Air transportation as a communication mode in many applications has been leapfrogged by other emerging modes.

5. America’s small and rural communities today are better connected to the global economy than ever – regardless of whether the local airport can support commercial service.

And a lot more - join the Unvarnished Uprising!
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It’s high time for some straight talk about the future trends in aviation... thanks to the pandemic, a lot of the old metrics and assumptions are obsolete.

Amazingly, most aviation, airport and air service planning are still stuck wallowing around using old metrics, obsolete approaches, and assumptions that don’t make any sense in the post pandemic aviation world.

Boyd+Swelbar Unvarnished attacks this intellectually inbred groupthink head on. We’re delivering planning perspectives that not just challenge outdated thinking, but irreverently shatters it without regard for standing on ceremony. In effect, it’s a bi-weekly delivery of innovative aviation consulting and research, expressed in a clear and concise, but decidedly iconoclastic approach. We’re here to deliver reality by getting right to the point, so if you’re looking for warm and fuzzies, get a puppy.

Taking On The Status-Quo Thinking. This week, we’re covering issues that affect all areas of the industry. Key, and often sensitive ones... like broken supply chains, the coming reduction crunch in airport concessions, emerging airport fees, shifts in consumer demands, air access regionalization, new airliner mission applications, the threat to air travel demand due to new communication channels, rural air service realities, and a whole lot more. It’s not just lively and irreverent discussion – it’s delivery of whole new thought patterns for the future.

And we’re bringing in the heavy artillery – analytical artillery. We back our findings with data from the extensive independent research of Swelbar-Zhong, and the unique forecast expertise of Boyd Group International, including Airports:USA® - the only traffic and trend analyses accomplished in the private sector. Boyd+Swelbar Unvarnished is about hard reality, not a milquetoast session of indecisive, foggy back-and-forth with a sleep-inducing discussion panel.

Think of it as attending an incisive 40-minute consultation with two of the industry’s best-known futurists with track records of calling it like it is.

Find our channel – Boyd Swelbar – at Rumble.com. Clear the time and get informed and perhaps even a bit entertained.

And please let us know your thoughts and opinions... as well as issues you think need to be discussed.

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