Seth Kaplan
Frontier
A Two-Horse Race Again: Denver’s seemingly sudden air service slowdown masks some key underlying strengths
Back in 2009, an awful year for U.S. airlines and airports, every major airport lost airline seats. But one—Denver, with less than a 1% decline—lost less service than any other.
easyJet
A Nervous Champion: Swiss is one of Europe’s most profitable airlines. So why is it so intent on reform?
You can set your Swiss watch to it: Year in and year out, Swiss International Air Lines—sometimes it just calls itself “Swiss”—emerges as the most profitable airline in the Lufthansa…
Allegiant
Defying Gravity: Why Allegiant, despite its share of problems, remains a profit champion
Its boldest experiment ever—flying to Hawaii—was a failure. Now it’s stuck with a half dozen B757s it wouldn’t have bought if not for that venture. So it now has three…
Beijing’s Bygone Buzz: A capital capacity crunch has Beijing barely hanging on as China’s busiest airline market
Beijing’s Capital Airport, which handles all but a fraction of the city’s air traffic, started the 2000s nowhere to be found on Airport Council International’s annual list of the world’s…
Ryanair
The Purple Dinosaur Killer: How Wizz Air is quietly earning industry-leading profit margins
Unlike that Cretaceous cartoon character Barney, Wizz Air is not—despite the look of its aircraft—a purple dinosaur. But it is a purple slayer of dinosaurs. It was instrumental, for example,…
Turning the Thai: The once consistently profitable Thai Airways is a mess. Can it turn things around?
Sound familiar? In the ASEAN region today, just like the U.S. a decade earlier, incumbent legacy carriers face the toughest operating conditions they’ve ever seen, with economies floundering, LCCs flourishing…