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You still haven’t explained why the data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Airline Data Project is a “suspicious and unreliable” source. Again, maybe it is and maybe ALPA’s data is more accurate.
But it’s not like a project produced by MIT comes with a baked-in assumption of dodginess and inaccuracy. It goes without saying that MIT is one the world’s leading research universities. It has produced game changing technological innovations, is affiliated with 100 Nobel Prize laureates and has 10 Nobel Prize laureates as current faculty members.
Here are the
bio’s of the MIT folks behind the Airline Data Project. I don’t read those bio’s and think to myself, “Yes, these people clearly wouldn’t know what they’re talking about. They are as ‘suspicious and unreliable’ as all get out.” Do you?
So, again, I’ll ask, why is the MIT Airline Data Project considered “suspicious and unreliable”? Maybe it is. Maybe you know something that’s not immediately obvious or you have access to inside information that would establish why what you’re saying is, in fact, the case. If so, please post your evidence here. But, so far, you’re making a “Trust me bro” claim that you have yet to back up with anything but your own hearsay.
And, if you can establish that MIT’s information is “suspicious and unreliable,” I’d be happy to redo the one chart that I produced based on the MIT numbers that demonstrated the TFP rates that would be required to achieve a 30% premium over Delta. All of the other charts have been derived entirely from the official SWAPA and DALPA pay tables. Or are those pay tables also suspect?