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Issues
Scandimonium: As most of Europe booms, Scandinavia’s Norwegian flies deeper into trouble
The alarm bells are ringing. The concerns are mounting. Is Norwegian, with its bold experiment in low-cost longhaul flying, falling apart?
Ultra-worried?: Is the ultra-LCC business model running into trouble?
It was an earnings call so uncomfortable that anyone who listened or participated still recalls it well.
A Tale of Two Texas Cities: San Antonio is the bigger city. But airlines are flocking to Austin.
Last week was a great week for San Antonio International Airport. True, it was far from the only U.S. airport to benefit from Frontier’s blitz of new route announcements (21…
May Day, May Day, SAA: As other state-owned stumblers see light, answers for South African Airways are hard to find
Finally, the future of Alitalia might be secured. Air India’s possible privatization gives it the chance of a lifetime to become more than just a drain on taxpayers. A new…
A Plummeting Profit Problem?: For Allegiant, not really
There’s a modestly-sized airline—87 planes—whose nonfuel costs are expected to swell some 9% to 12% this year, even as its unit revenues decline. For the first quarter of this year…
The Airline Weekly Halftime Show: A region-by-region look at developments that shaped the first six months of 2017
With the global economy perking up and oil prices falling again, airlines in most parts of the world are looking forward to the second half of 2017. In the first…
Asia’s Spain: Thailand’s tourism-heavy airline market gets a China boost
Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing are East Asia’s three largest airline markets. But just behind Beijing, in terms of airport seats scheduled, is the massive Bangkok market, split across two hyper-busy…
Marching Into Battle: Southwest’s latest expansion targets are markets where it can expect a fight
It’s rightly called an LCC. But it’s also an HRC: a high-revenue carrier. Southwest long ago gained fame by inventing lowcost air travel, but its success today is just as…
End of an Era: Gulf carriers are in trouble, and the industry implications are enormous
It was a geopolitical earthquake for sure, and potentially a seismic shift as well for the region’s globally significant airlines. Last week, several Gulf nations, including Saudi Arabia and the…