Jet Who? Why Jet2 is Britain’s Secret Star
Pushing Back: Inside the Issue 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...
View ArticleThunder Down Under: Qantas Flexes Its Muscles
<p>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,...
View ArticleGreece Lightning: The Aegean Airlines Success Story
<p>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,...
View ArticleThe Q2 2024 Earnings Scoreboard
<p>Cost pressures. Cooling demand. Geopolitical turbulence. Despite all of this, the second quarter of 2024 was a good one for the global passenger airline industry. Collectively, major airlines...
View ArticleTurn Baby Turn: Jordan’s Plan To Revitalize Southwest
<p>What’s the right tool to fix Southwest? A scalpel or a sledgehammer? As a Wall Street dissident leans toward the latter, calling for wholesale change in the airline’s executive ranks, the...
View ArticleDiamonds in the Sky: Will the Transatlantic Boom Continue?
Pushing Back: Inside the Issue Welcome to the final quarter of 2024. Believe it or not, airlines will begin reporting their third quarter results this week, beginning as usual with Delta on Thursday...
View ArticleFor Delta, No Glee in Q3. But Happy Times Ahead?
<p>It wasn’t Delta’s greatest summer. Enough went wrong (the CrowdStrike disruption, lost business during the Olympics) to spoil all that went right (strong demand, cheaper fuel). Fortunately,...
View ArticleA New Chapter for AirAsia
Pushing Back: Inside the Issue A defining characteristic of the AirAsia empire has always been its corporate complexity. Now it stands to simplify by bringing AirAsia and AirAsia X together as one,...
View ArticleLatam Poised to Prosper
Pushing Back: Inside the Issue As Q3 earnings season gathers momentum, South America’s Latam Airlines took some time to visit New York City. Surely, it did some sightseeing. Maybe it saw a Broadway...
View ArticleRocky Mountain Fly: Is Frontier Poised for a Comeback?
Pushing Back: Inside the Issue November has arrived, which this year brings such joyous events as the mild-mannered U.S. presidential election. U.S. airlines are seeing a lull in demand ahead of the...
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