Despite being dinged by rising costs, Delta opened the third-quarter earnings season with its customary show of strength. Revenues rose 6% on just 2% growth, and it posted a 16% operating profit margin. While things aren’t quite as good in Europe, airlines there have much to look forward to, namely the elimination—one way or another—of […]
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 82: Whoa Mexico
The food scene and the tequila are great in Mexico. The airline industry? Not so much—at least at the moment. Everybody lost money in the first quarter of 2017. In the second quarter, only one airline—VivaAerobus—did merely okay. What has happened to the usually high-flying Volaris? Even Interjet has outperformed Volaris in the first half. […]
Cloud Computing: Airlines everywhere are spending big bucks on information technology
Google. Apple. Facebook. Delta? Airlines weren’t born in Silicon Valley. And their executives don’t wear hoodies. But airlines are indeed some of the global economy’s most zealous adopters and even innovators of advanced technologies. Already, new technologies are reshaping many areas of the airline business. In 2017, it’s nearly impossible to hear an airline management […]
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 78: The United Weigh
United is still trailing its peers, but can it catch up? That’s the question we weigh first in this episode. In the second quarter, American Airlines bested United with a 16% operating margin versus United’s 14%. One thing that went right for AA: Latin America. One thing that went wrong for United: Asia. Meanwhile, little […]
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 new airports and 85 new routes; see page 8). But few airports got quite as much of Frontier’s attention as San Antonio—the ultra-LCC blessed it […]
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