R.W. Mann & Company, Inc.

06/04/2026

Last night's interview on WGN Chicago, a 50,000 watt 'clear channel' station on which in the 1960s I used to listen to night time Bruins-Blackhawks away games on a home-built Radio Shack crystal radio.

Robert W. Mann Jr., Airline Industry Analyst and Consultant at R.W. Mann & Company, joins Jon Hansen to discuss why air travel will be more expensive this summer.

06/01/2026

I would love to be wrong, but...

Air travel could be disrupted into next year because of high jet fuel prices.

05/24/2026

FAA’s description of their Brand New ATC System solution completely ignores the issue of the continuously changing real-time randomization of 4D flight trajectories, from pre-release through enroute and arrival, not to mention airlines’ optimal schedule designs.

This is a problem that has already been solved by commercially available software, and includes airlines’ ability to system-optimize their own flights’ sequence and timing, as well as FAA’s ability to honest-broker multiple system-optima for a particular space and time to a NAS global optimum.

“FAA can see where flight trajectories could collide and “fix all of that stuff before the planes even leave the ground. That’s using four-dimensional trajectories and machine learning with unlimited compute power to actually manage all these trajectories.”

FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford outlined vision to move FAA into the future

05/06/2026

Latest presentation and publication, illustrated by the LaGuardia Trombone:

'Airline Flow Management Briefing - AGIFORS Presentation, April 2026'

Airline-Centric, Pilot-Driven, Real-Time, 'Day-of-Flight' Time-Based Flow Manager - AGIFORS Presentation, April 2026

https://rwmann.com/AGIFORS-Airline-Flow-Management-Brief-2026-04-14.pdf

'Random Point Overloads - AGIFORS White Paper, April 2026'

The Root Cause of Airline Flight Delays: 'Day-of-Flight' Defects in the Form of Random Point Overloads - AGIFORS White Paper, April 2026

https://rwmann.com/AGIFORS-Random-Point-Overloads-White-Paper-2026-04-14.pdf

04/27/2026

Can’t make this stuff up!

'All we’ll say is this: if some of the best available AI on the market today can’t run an office snack machine without breaking down into a de facto cartel, good luck when you put it in charge of ATC scheduling the country’s flights.'

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-air-traffic-duffy

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/vending-machine-ai-price-fixing

‘Anthropic's Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fighting Betta Fish’

https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-ai-vending-machine

04/26/2026

I was honored with the opportunity to present at AGIFORS Barcelona last week, on behalf of Michael Baiada and myself, on the topic of reducing random point airspace overloads, the root cause of ATC intervention and flight delays.

We discuss what contributes to defects in flight outcomes — unproductive scheduled time, excess flying time and costs, poor on-time performance, and its airline profit impact — and who is uniquely capable of most operating and capital cost-efficiently and economically successfully preventing those defects, benefiting airlines, passengers, investors, employees, the economies they serve and grow, literally all constituencies, and how to create a virtuous cycle of improvement.

https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AGIFORS-Airline-Flow-Management-Brief-2026-04-14.pdf

https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AGIFORS-Random-Point-Overloads-White-Paper-2026-04-14.pdf

and the need for and

01/14/2026

Guess some airline executives can't stand the truth, as widely perceived... randomness, delays, service failures included.

"Note that, at the request of American Airlines, we have removed all AA tags.

Note that, at the request of Alaska Airlines, we have removed some tags.

Note that, at the request of Delta Airlines, we now have the words “Parody Flymiles” on all Delta-style tags."

FlyMiles Parody Luggage Tags Zillion Miler Parody Luggage Tag Bajillion Miler Parody Luggage Tag Hundred Miler Parody Luggage Tag I'm Just Here for the Trading Cards Parody Luggage Tag Silver-ish Medallion Parody Luggage Tag Fool's Gold Medallion Parody Luggage Tag Ex-Platinum Medallion Parody Lugga...

12/28/2025

It’s the late 1990s ‘de-peaked’, ‘rolling hub’ again, at 2026 scale.

De-tuning schedule competitiveness and revenue aggregation potential, without commensurately reducing costs.

As opposed to system optimizing arrival flow to maximize on-time, minimize variance, improve reliability, and reduce costs.

System-optimize all day-of-flight trajectories, reduce delay/flying minutes, emissions, costs, free up capital/labor assets/latent utilization, feed benefits back into schedule plans.

Easily done, for the willing,

American Airlines transitions to a 13-bank rolling hub at DFW in 2026 and invests $4B in Terminal F expansion with lease through 2043.

12/23/2025

Merry Christmas, and our hopes for a healthy, happy, safe New Year 2026 (and beyond).

(A favorite photo from a 2006 family visit to a Dale Chihuly glass exhibition at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.)

11/07/2025

With all these flight cancellations, too bad the 'Brand New ATC System' isn't yet in place...