Daily Airline News

Talk about bad luck. Greg Foran’s first day as chief executive of Air New Zealand was February 3rd, 2020. Barely a month later, the Covid virus all but grounded the airline’s passenger business. The crisis would end. But Foran’s luck didn’t get much better. Today, about 16% of ANZ’s jet fleet is grounded due to engine issues, affecting both B787s and A320-family Neos. Despite the woes, Foran and his team are bullish about the carrier's prospects, as we discover in this week's feature story.

It’s the question everyone’s been asking for more than a year now: Will Spirit Airlines, a profit superstar before the pandemic, file for bankruptcy? Now we have the answer: Yes. 

Barbecue. Big Hats. Big Oil. The Cowboys. Here’s something else that Dallas is known for: Its airlines. American is based there. So is Southwest. It wasn’t too long ago that…

Have you heard? America has a new president. Or actually, an old president coming back for a second round. What will the return of Donald Trump mean for the airline…

November has arrived, which this year brings such joyous events as the mild-mannered U.S. presidential election. U.S. airlines are seeing a lull in demand ahead of the tense vote. But…

As Q3 earnings season gathers momentum, South America’s Latam Airlines took some time to visit New York City. Surely, it did some sightseeing. Maybe it saw a Broadway show. But…

A defining characteristic of the AirAsia empire has always been its corporate complexity. Now it stands to simplify by bringing AirAsia and AirAsia X together as one, while leaving aside…

It wasn’t Delta’s greatest summer. Enough went wrong (the CrowdStrike disruption, lost business during the Olympics) to spoil all that went right (strong demand, cheaper fuel). Fortunately, almost everything’s coming up roses this fall, including heavy capacity cuts by domestic rivals. Will United finally beat Delta in the margin fight? We’ll find out later this week, when Scott Kirby and company report for Q3.

Welcome to the final quarter of 2024. Believe it or not, airlines will begin reporting their third quarter results this week, beginning as usual with Delta on Thursday (October 10).…

What’s the right tool to fix Southwest? A scalpel or a sledgehammer? As a Wall Street dissident leans toward the latter, calling for wholesale change in the airline’s executive ranks, the executives themselves are championing a less radical approach. What the company needs, argued CEO Bob Jordan last week, is not a new leadership team but a network and inflight product adapted to meet new post-Covid trends.