Issue Summary

In many ways, the International Airlines Group, or IAG, is a lot like its chief European rivals Lufthansa and Air France/KLM. Its margins, in fact, were similar to Lufthansa’s last quarter—and not much higher than those at Air France/KLM. It has shorthaul problems and labor cost problems and problems with high taxation and economic stagnation. And itt has similar solutions to those problems: big cost-cutting programs, shorthaul outsourcing to lower-cost subsidiaries and so on.