Madhu Unnikrishnan

Business travel may still be in the doldrums, but Air Canada has found a way to fill the seats in the front of its airplanes: Premium leisure. Like many of…

Leisure, leisure, leisure. If this pandemic has taught us anything, it's that almost everything we knew about the airline industry is no longer true. Everyone has a guess on when…

Earnings season continues, with JetBlue, Hawaiian, and Spirit rounding out the U.S. carriers. Once again, all eyes are on the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of…

Boeing executives projected confidence about next year, even as the airframer struggles with production, regulatory, and delivery problems with three of its marquee aircraft programs. Despite the confidence, Boeing reported…

More carriers reported their third-quarter earnings and, for most, it was a tale of two quarters: Strong demand in July and a precipitous drop in September as a new surge…

Although most airlines see hope in the fourth quarter and beyond, few can say they are in better shape now than they were before the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the industry.…

Ned and Madhu digest United's third-quarter earnings in this latest episode of the Lounge and observe that airline CEO predictions about the recovery run the gamut from United CEO Scott…

Unlike some of its peers, Alaska Airlines is striking a note of caution on the trajectory of the recovery, predicting that it will be "choppy," despite reporting its first quarterly…

By most accounts, leisure demand across the Atlantic Ocean next summer will be strong, with some arguing that leisure traffic could best even the summer of 2019. Airlines on both…

Talks between Alaska Airlines and its pilots union took a turn when the pilots asked management to bring their benefits up to par with crews at competing airlines. The development…