Daily Airline News

In the year’s first quarter, Allegiant and Spirit were the world’s two most profitable lowcost carriers, measured by operating margin. Can you name the third?

Something highly unusual happened in the first quarter of 2015: Mighty Delta found itself dead last in its contest with American and United for profit margin supremacy among U.S.-based global…

As Airline Weekly regularly warns when reporting AirAsia’s quarterly net results, things are not always as they seem. Last fall, for example (on Sept. 1, 2014), readers were advised to…

SAS hopes to please stakeholders with an array of ongoing structural reforms when it reports its February-to-April quarterly results this week. The airline—its post-9/11 history a relentless race between falling…

Yes, worries are mounting about U.S. airlines losing their domestic capacity discipline. Delta and United even raised fears last week of economic weakness denting domestic demand. But let’s not forget:…

They’re growing at warp speed. They’re voraciously buying planes. They’re located at the geographic center of the world. And they’re irritating established legacy airlines everywhere with their allegedly unfair government…

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.