The Boyd Group

[Rossa]

Funny thing happened as I watched Midwest Airlines last night, on one of the news channels - Michael Boyd came on the phone to give his helpful "insight".
Something I didn't know was that he was a Flight Attendant, along with his wife. I didn't realize that someone of his intellect had made such brilliant moves as leaving AMR for Braniff, then Bar Harbor Airlines!
Maybe this is very old info. to most of us, but I guess I just expected such an "expert" to have more than that, after all, he claims to know what's going to happen in this industry over the next 5 - 10 years and some people on this board are fond of quoting him!

 

[TNPILOT]

He provides some good info but I find the articles on their website to be unprofessionally written. It's more of an airline industry blog than it is an information site for his consulting service. He makes tons of predicitons and later writes a bunch of "I told you so's" which probably isn't that hard given the number of articles that appear on the site. I mean if you play a slott machine enough you'll probably win once in a while but that doesn't make you the world's best gambler, it only means you play a lot. Perhaps we should expect that from someone with intellect of a flight attendant.

 

[HalinTexas]

He's frequently wrong. When he's correct he's usually repeating what someone else has already predicted.

 

[Green]

If you really read through some of Boyd's rambling statements you'll find that they are full of freakishly vague predictions and off the cuff remarks, designed to grab attention. Airline analysts have pulled ahead of weathermen as the premiere job to state the obvious and make boneheaded predictions.