Daily Airline News
Better Than Great: U.S. airlines are running up the score on profits; revenues are raining down from everywhere
U.S. airlines aren’t just earning big profits. They’re earning bigger profits, bigger with each successive year. Consider this: In the second quarter of 2011, the industry collectively managed a 6%…
A Boom with No Local Heroes: Air traffic in Taiwan is booming. So why aren’t Taiwanese airlines prospering?
Amid the darkness, there is light. In Taiwan, last week’s TransAsia crash breached the airline industry’s supreme mandate: safety above all. But away from the fog of disaster is a…
The Polish Vortex: LCCs love it. But why does populous, prospering Poland lack major aviation heft?
The European Union’s five most populous countries—Germany, France, the U.K., Italy and Spain—are home to all but one of the continent’s top 10 airports (Amsterdam is the exception). This makes…
Halftime Show, Ups and Downs: Top trends that shaped the first half of 2014 for the world’s airlines
Sadly, the biggest airline news in the first half of 2014 was the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet. But there was plenty of commercial news too, with airlines busily…