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Icelandair’s Financial Record

After four straight years of operating losses, Icelandair returned to profit last year. But it's still a long way from where it was in the mid-2010s. Source: Airline Weekly analysis and company reports — Jay Shabat

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The Rise of Anadolujet

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Which Airlines Have the Most Airplanes on Firm Order?

Wait a minute, where's Air India on this list? Didn't it just place a massive order? Those planes, 550 of them, are still listed as letters of intent (LOIs). That's still in any case fewer than United's firm order book...

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Volaris’s Busiest Airports

The busiest airports in the Volaris network in the second quarter ranked by scheduled seats. Guadalajara and Tijuana are its busiest markets, and also among its fastest-growing; Only one foreign airport is on this list, Los Angeles (highlighted in bold)....

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Air Hockey Fight

Air Canada has outgrown WestJet for many years. — Jay Shabat

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Earnings Scoreboard: Fourth Quarter, 2022

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All Loads Lead to Losses

The first chart shows load factors for February this year, compared to February of 2019. The "area" category is how Chinese carriers refer to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao routes. As one can see, load factors are down for domestic...

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American’s Ups and Downs

Where American has expanded and where it's contracted, the third quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in 2019, per Diio. — Jay Shabat

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Greater Europe (includes Turkey and Russia): Which Countries Will See the Most New Airline Seats Next Quarter (April-June), Relative to April-June, 2019

*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...

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U.S. Airline Jet Fuel Trends

Note 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...

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Thai Opener

After a dismal decade, Thai Airways finished 2022 with its best operating profit since 2010. Thank an epic fourth quarter, propelled by recovering tourism and drastic cost-cutting for those numbers. The chart shows Thai's annual operating margin over time, excluding...

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Earnings Scoreboard: Europe’s Big Three

How Europe's Big Three — Air France-KLM (Air France, KLM, and Transavia), IAG (British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, and Vueling), and the Lufthansa Group (Austrian, Brussels, Eurowings, Lufthansa, and Swiss) — did in the fourth quarter of 2022. Note that...

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