Seth Kaplan

Next month will mark one year since Air Berlin declared itself bankrupt. October will mark one year since the airline stopped flying. How much has its departure changed Europe’s competitive…

Reflecting on the first six months of 2018, two words quickly come to mind: “strong,” which describes the revenue environment, and “rising,” which describes the cost trajectory. Airlines around the…

Frontier Airlines has had one of the most topsy-turvy histories of any airline, and its first-quarter earnings report was no exception. Sporting a wild animal on each tail, the airline…

Give it credit for honest self assessment. In American’s latest annual report, the airline admits: “Our presence in international markets, such as Asia, is not as extensive as that of…

Every major U.S. airline is making money. The U.S. airline industry hasn’t lost money in almost a decade. It has now earned double-digit operating margins for four straight years. So…

Things haven’t gotten better in Mexico. Although Aeroméxico is at least coping better than its domestic competitors, all of which posted negative first-quarter margins in the double-digits. To make matters…

You can set your watch to it. Global airline demand, measured by RPK traffic, doubles every 15 years. It did so during the past 15 years. It did so in…

Despite a 29% year-over-year increase to its labor costs, Ryanair still posted a positive profit margin in the first quarter. Ryan’s eastern European counterpart, Wizz Air, meanwhile faced an even…

Ah, remember those days… fond old memories like the first Gulf war, the Asian financial crisis and the SARS epidemic? If ever there was crisis in the airline industry, Singapore…

Some universal truths about Europe’s airlines emerged during the opening quarter of 2018. All enjoyed strong demand conditions, in pretty much all markets, all segments and all classes of service.…