Daily Airline News

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…

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 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…

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,…

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…

For some, 13 is an unlucky number. Not for plane builders though. For them, that’s the number of years now since their market last saw a big downturn. How much…

Global passenger statistics for the first nine months of 2014—the latest full period available—show Istanbul’s main airport atop the year-over-year growth ranking for the 15 busiest airports on the planet.…

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