Once upon a time, it was the predator, not the prey. In India’s first wave of airline deregulation in the early 1990s, Jet Airways was a promising upstart, bringing world-class levels of service to a market long cursed with the legendary shortcomings of Air India. By the mid-2000s, Jet was standing tall, emerging as the […]
The first hint came as early as 2011. JetBlue had just placed an order for A320-NEOs. And responding to an analyst question about potentially flying to longer-haul international markets like Europe, the carrier’s then-chief commercial officer didn’t deny the possibility: “Certainly with the winglets and then later the NEO, then some of those markets that […]
JetBlue will begin flying from New York City and Boston, MA to London in 2021. Here is a quick review of the pluses and minuses. We’ll have a closer look in Monday’s new issue. The Opportunities JetBlue is flying transatlantically in about the lowest-risk way possible: without buying expensive new widebodies. It will use narrowbody […]
From 2000 to 2008, it was a fragmented mess. From 2008 onward, it consolidated. Is the U.S. airline industry on the verge of disruptive fragmentation once again? Last week brought news of another new U.S. airline startup, first reported by NPR’s Hear & Now. The startup is the brainchild of Andrew Levy, United Airlines’ former […]
An outbreak of airlines in critical condition, and other major developments from an eventful first quarter: It was an eventful first quarter, with good news, bad news, and even tragic news for the world’s airlines. The tragedy, of course, was the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 last month, which killed 157 people and raising […]
Editor’s Note: We apologize for the delay today, and I would like to take a moment to thank you for your patience over the last few weeks as we’ve made — and continue to make — the transition to a new distribution system. Our promise to you remains the same: To deliver the best news […]
All B737 MAX jets worldwide remain grounded—and might for some time—following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines MAX 8, which killed all 157 people aboard. The crash, it seemed, was similar enough to a Lion Air MAX 8 crash last year to warrant the grounding. In that case, a system called MCAS—designed partly to prevent […]
Of America’s 30 busiest airports, just one—only one shows double digit growth in year over year seat capacity next quarter. Oddly enough, it’s home to America’s slowest growing airline. Dallas-Fort Worth, the home hub of American Airlines, is more tortoise than hare when it comes to traffic growth. Last year, passenger volumes increased just 3%, […]
In the time since Airline Weekly launched 15 years ago, the airline industry has undergone remarkable change, to an industry almost unrecognizable when we put out our first issue. Airlines have consolidated. Low-cost carriers started in regions that hadn’t seen them before. The rise of the ultra-low-cost carrier. Low-cost long-haul. Oil prices spiked to record […]
It was as good a time as any to announce new Boeing orders. President Trump was in town for a meeting with his North Korean counterpart last week. So VietJet, Vietnam’s largest low-cost carrier, used the occasion to finalize a deal for 100 B737-MAXs first placed at last summer’s Farnborough Airshow (where it incidentally ordered 50 […]
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