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Among America’s Big Three airlines, there’s a clear profit champion. It’s Delta. Among Europe’s Big Three, there’s a clear profit champion: It’s IAG. And among China’s Big Three? The champion…

Most of Europe’s publicly traded airlines have now reported their second-quarter results. A few like Aegean and SAS will report later this month. Others like Virgin Atlantic, Alitalia, TAP Air…

It takes a long time to descend from a high mountain. But U.S. airline profitability is indeed descending, still strong relative to the global average but getting further away from…

In 1980, just as the U.S. airline industry was deregulating, Florida was the country’s seventh most populous state, with about 10m people. Today, with 20m people, it ranks No. 3,…

Next month will mark one year since Air Berlin declared itself bankrupt. October will mark one year since the airline stopped flying. How much has its departure changed Europe’s competitive…

Reflecting on the first six months of 2018, two words quickly come to mind: “strong,” which describes the revenue environment, and “rising,” which describes the cost trajectory. Airlines around the…

Give it credit for honest self assessment. In American’s latest annual report, the airline admits: “Our presence in international markets, such as Asia, is not as extensive as that of…

Every major U.S. airline is making money. The U.S. airline industry hasn’t lost money in almost a decade. It has now earned double-digit operating margins for four straight years. So…

You can set your watch to it. Global airline demand, measured by RPK traffic, doubles every 15 years. It did so during the past 15 years. It did so in…

Ah, remember those days… fond old memories like the first Gulf war, the Asian financial crisis and the SARS epidemic? If ever there was crisis in the airline industry, Singapore…