It wasn’t exactly an investor day event — Delta Air Lines will hold one of those in June, offering a deep dive on different areas of its business. Last week, in a meeting with investors, the airline’s chief focus was...
Read MoreMichael Jordan worked wonders with a basketball. Can Bob Jordan do the same with a fleet of more than 700 planes? The latter Jordan, CEO of Southwest Airlines, had his chance to convince investors, in a presentation he and his...
Read MoreIn the rabidly competitive airline industry, profits don’t come easy. Europe’s low-fare giant EasyJet, however, has found a way. Last week, the orange-colored carrier reported financial results for its fiscal year that ended in September (it reports just twice a...
Read MoreKLM's new CEO, Marjan Rintel, has been in the job less than five months and already faces serious questions over the future of the airline. Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, the linchpin of KLM’s operation and success, has restricted passenger numbers due to...
Read MoreThe animal that is Frontier Airlines says no, it’s not in a cage. The Denver-based ultra-low-cost carrier insists that it’s just as free as ever to grow and prosper, rejecting the argument from United’s Scott Kirby and others that ULCCs...
Read MoreTurkish is having a moment. It’s a rare carrier that’s both larger and more profitable now than it was before the Covid crisis. Turkish reported its third quarter financial results on November 3 and, wow, they were good. It...
Read MoreTwelve minutes. That’s all the time it took for the board of directors of Avianca to set the path for the carrier, and begin a series of sweeping changes to the airline industry in the region. The date was May...
Read MoreSweet memories of the Great Recession? Not exactly, but for Hawaiian Airlines, the global economic calamity of 2008 and 2009 didn’t leave many scars. Hawaii’s tourist sector felt the impact for sure—the number of visitors arriving by air dropped 10...
Read MoreAir travel in Latin America is back with the leaders of the region’s largest airlines forecasting strong demand through the peak southern summer season, or roughly until March. But in a region prone to economic crises, there is a strong...
Read MoreFrontier CEO Barry Biffle is confident that the carrier’s cost advantage will drive its growth — and success — over the coming decade. This confidence comes after it lost a bidding war for budget competitor Spirit to JetBlue, and remains...
Read MoreFor KLM, there’s no time like the present. The problem is the future. During the second quarter, no European airline performed better. KLM by itself, excluding its sister airlines Air France and Transavia, earned a hearty 9.4 percent operating margin....
Read MoreAs the fourth quarter begins, and as the global recovery in air traffic continues, several airports stand out as growth champions. Here's a look at five in particular, selected from scattered parts of the globe: Cancun, Austin, Paris Orly, Riyadh,...
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