Things look great for SAS right now. Things look terribly dire. For Scandinavia’s largest airline, there is plenty to celebrate. Capacity conditions are extremely favorable with rivals missing their MAXs. LCC predators like Ryanair, easyJet, and Wizz Air have their...
Read MoreSingapore Airlines and ANA signed a tentative joint venture that would provide connections on both carriers’ flights and would provide reciprocal access to lounges, check-in, and frequent-flier programs. The two Star Alliance airlines say the new joint venture would increase...
Read MoreIn response to the spreading coronavirus, many foreign airlines suspended their flights to mainland China. United, for one, which flies more seat miles to China than any other airline, will cancel all service to Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai from Feb....
Read MoreFinally, American and the TWU-IAM, which represents the airline’s maintenance workers, reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement that potentially ends a long saga of turmoil. Last year, when contract negotiations broke down, American alleged in court that mechanics were intentionally...
Read MoreSt. Louis Lambert International Airport reported 16m passengers last year, up just about 2% y/y, marking five consecutive years of passenger growth. Far and away the largest carrier at St. Louis is Southwest, with 59% of traffic. American, which dehubbed...
Read MoreCopa, Avianca, Aeromexico, JetBlue, American… Azul too wants to shed its first-generation E190s as fast as possible. The Brazilian carrier now plans to do so by the end of next year, at which point all of its E-Jets will be...
Read MoreThe Air India sale process is heating up. According to newly-published guidelines, bidders will be able to buy 100% of the airline, incurring just one-third of its mammoth $8b debt burden. When India’s government last tried to sell just 76%...
Read MoreLes Echos describes efforts by Air France to avert a strike at its regional airline Hop. Its union (SNPL) threatens to stop working every Friday from mid-February to late April, hoping to win pay rates and working conditions closer to...
Read MoreAll Nippon Airways, as discussed in last week’s issue of Skift Airline Weekly, doesn’t like being less profitable than its archrival Japan Airlines. Well, that didn’t change last quarter, when its 8% operating margin fell short of JAL’s 11%. For...
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