Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing are East Asia’s three largest airline markets. But just behind Beijing, in terms of airport seats scheduled, is the massive Bangkok market, split across two hyper-busy airports. Thailand, more generally, is East Asia’s fourth busiest airline market after China, Japan and Indonesia, all with much larger populations. More importantly, the giant […]
So this is happening: A major international airline faces a blockade. We admit it—this is a new one for us, with little to no history as a guide. Nonetheless, Qatar Airways faces a travel and trade embargo from four nearby countries, which overnight wiped 18 destinations off Qatar’s route map and essentially propped up a […]
It’s rightly called an LCC. But it’s also an HRC: a high-revenue carrier. Southwest long ago gained fame by inventing lowcost air travel, but its success today is just as importantly tied to the revenue power it exercises, not from having the best product, the most comprehensive loyalty plan nor the most ancillary services but […]
It was a geopolitical earthquake for sure, and potentially a seismic shift as well for the region’s globally significant airlines. Last week, several Gulf nations, including Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., suspended diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar, putting the very viability of Qatar Airways in jeopardy. Not only has the carrier lost access to […]
Ryanair was one of just three individual airlines in Europe to post an operating profit in the first quarter. The success came not only by way of the airline’s juggernaut of a business model, but also because Ryanair was one of the few to see a year-over-year decline in fuel costs. One European airline had […]
