Throughout a troubled 2022, the pandemic exposed many fragilities in a troubled U.S. airline industry, but it also enabled a widely recognized miracle in the $8 billion resurrection of New York LaGuardia Airport. Once widely viewed as a hellhole, LaGuardia was...
Read MoreOf all European countries west of Turkey, none have added more airline seats since 2019 than Portugal (see “By the Numbers”). That reflects a boom in tourism, which propelled state-owned TAP Air Portugal to a brawny 9 percent operating margin...
Read More*The top countries on this list are big tourist destinations, all of them benefitting from the post-Covid surge in leisure travel *Note how many more airline seats Germany has lost than even Russia. In western Europe more generally, it's the...
Read MoreJapan Airlines, one of the last holdouts in ordering the latest generation of narrowbody planes, finally pulled the trigger on an order, opting for Boeing's Max. But it's a modest order. The Tokyo-based carrier will take just 21 737-Max 8s....
Read MoreFor many years, Korea--like Taiwan--was a two-airline market, at least for longhaul. Now, just like in Taiwan with StarLux, Korea has a new challenger in Air Premia. Launched last year, it's ambitiously flying Dreamliners to Los Angeles, challenging incumbents Korean...
Read MoreFor China Airlines, two plus one equals negative $53 million. That’s how many U.S. Dollars the Taiwanese carrier lost at the operating level last quarter, as it grappled with the challenge of a two-airline market becoming a three-airline market. ...
Read MoreIt’s like that bunny in the old Energizer battery commercials: Still going. Roughly one year ago, Covid’s cork on travel demand finally popped off, unleashing some of the strongest bookings for air travel that U.S. airlines have ever seen. Well,...
Read MoreThe operators of Frankfurt and Zurich airports, both major Lufthansa hubs, reported earnings last week. For Frankfurt, owned by Fraport, this summer's shorthaul seat capacity will still be down about 20 percent from where it was in the summer of...
Read MoreNote the variance in Q4 jet fuel prices paid by different airlines, a topic that came up a few times during the JPMorgan investor event last week. Some carriers like JetBlue are more exposed to the current elevation in New...
Read MoreBoeing won a bonanza of new orders from Saudi Arabia, including one by the newly-announced startup Riyadh Air. It will buy as many as 72 787-9s, 39 of them firm orders. So not to feel left out, the country's incumbent...
Read MoreLatam, South America’s largest airline group, reported a solid if unspectacular 8 percent operating margin for the fourth quarter of 2022. The company, operating under bankruptcy protection from 2020 until last November, earned a 12 percent operating margin in the...
Read MoreAmerican Airlines pilots say they are mystified that CEO Robert Isom publicly promised a Delta-level contract when the carrier had not made such a proposal to union negotiators. But with negotiations ongoing, the airline indicated a proposal is close. “We look forward...
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