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It’s a good time to be a Japanese airline. The country’s two dominant carriers, All Nippon and Japan Airlines, both earned solid if not spectacular profits last year, fueled by strong demand. Both, meanwhile, are becoming strategically bolder, in a market that’s becoming strategically more important to many foreign airlines. It’s also becoming transformed by […]
For a second straight year, Delta’s operating profit margin has fallen year-over-year in the first quarter. The reason for the decline, once again, is rising costs. The good news: Rising revenues—from nearly every corner of Delta’s network—propelled the airline to a solid 8% operating profit margin. One of the rising costs is, of course, fuel. […]
JetBlue and Alaska Airlines have a lot in common. Both are narrowbody-only operators with reputations for good customer service. Both have networks that combine lots of shorthaul northsouth coastal flying with longhaul transcontinental routes. Both are big on partnerships with foreign airlines. Both count Delta as their closest competitor. Both tried to buy Virgin America. […]
Numbers were put to the misery South African Airways has been experiencing when, last month, the airline finally reported earnings for its fiscal year ending in March 2017. Those numbers included a gut-wrenching negative 9% operating profit margin on the year. “Crisis” isn’t too strong of a word. What is SAA doing to turn things […]
Asian carriers remember 2010 as their golden year: Fuel prices were moderate, LCCs were still modest in number and size, cargo was booming and the region’s economies were roaring back from the global recession. For U.S. carriers, the golden year was 2015, a blissful time of cheap oil and strong demand. And European carriers? For […]
