Articles tagged “Europe”

Ever wake up in the morning and feel like your engines just won’t start? Now you know how Wizz Air has felt every day of the post-pandemic era. Europe’s third largest low-cost carrier (after Ryanair and easyJet) just reported another dismal quarter, one much worse than even its official negative 10% figure suggests. In this week's feature story, we explore the key factors causing problems for the LCC and examine plans to get Wizz Air onto a stronger, more strategic, flight path.

Don't read too much into Ryanair's January-March quarter, the Irish low-cost giant still looks set for a fantastic summer season, boosted by tight supply and robust demand.

Heavy first quarter losses. A tariff war that threatens global commerce. Signs of softening in the all-important transatlantic market. Surely the Lufthansa Group must be worried? On the contrary, despite the rather nasty $932m Q1 net loss it reported last week, bosses at the European aviation powerhouse struck a decidedly upbeat tone. In this week's feature story, we ask if this optimism is justified.

What’s Turkey’s largest airline? Of course, it’s Turkish Airlines. But don’t overlook another Turkish carrier that’s growing and profiting at least as impressively...

British Airways earned a $2.6 billion operating profit in 2024. Its rival Lufthansa lost almost $100 million. In this week's feature story we find out what's going so right at BA.

When the North Atlantic market is good, British Airways performs strongly. BA's spectacular numbers suggest something is going very right.

Should Finnair hire a party planner, or a funeral director? No, it’s not in danger of dying. But after a surprisingly strong showing in 2023 and 2024, 2025 is looking uncomfortably fraught with peril. Labor unrest. Ballooning costs. A once-prized Asian network still disrupted. It’s enough to make any airline nervous, let alone a smallish government-owned carrier that lacks scale. In this week's edition, we ask if Finnair can defy the odds again.

There’s a lot going right at United. Another strong financial result last quarter—and last year—places it alongside Delta in the circle of America’s global champions. Not so American. While avoiding…

Aegean Airlines has painful memories. In the early 2010s, Greece was in the throes of a great depression, a crisis that nearly forced it out of the euro-zone. The airline, sure enough, suffered three straight years of losses from 2010 to 2012, aggravated by a surge in fuel prices. This week we discover how Aegean not only survived, but thrived under intense macroeconomic pressure.

Europe’s economy isn’t exactly firing on all cylinders. If anything, it’s the booming inbound tourism sector that’s preventing an outright recession. Yet outbound tourism remains strong too, notably from Germany…