Daily Airline News

Winter is approaching. The cold is setting in. So for many North Americans, thoughts are turning—as they always do this time of year—to Florida’s sunshine. For a city like Fort…

With fuel cheap, demand still strong and seat supply constrained by airport infrastructure, government policies and consolidation, Chinese airlines—at least for the time being—are winners. But China Southern seems a…

Here’s the understatement of the year: Last week was an eventful one for Germany’s airline industry. Is “revolutionary” too strong a word?

With four transatlantic joint ventures between them, it looked like a sure victory for the goliaths. American joined forces with IAG. United locked hands with Lufthansa. And Delta built ventures…

Is it silly to worry about an airline that earned a 22% operating margin last quarter? Maybe “worry” is too strong a word. But concerns about Spirit Airlines are serious,…

Poor financial results. Heavy indebtedness. And of course, labor unrest. All three come quickly to mind when thinking about Air France/KLM in its current troubled state. But it’s the French…

Napoléon Bonaparte resigns as French emperor to command the English army. Steve Jobs leaves Apple to run Microsoft. American Airlines President Scott Kirby steps aside and quickly becomes president of…

Nothing has changed. Yet everything has changed.

The Alberta oil boom is history. Canada’s economy as a whole is barely growing. And the last time a Canadian hockey team won the Stanley Cup was more than two…

How did they do it? How did U.S. airlines— especially legacy airlines— transform themselves, over the course of a decade, from financial laughingstocks of the global airline industry into paragons…