A European Wild West as Airlines Eye Opportunities

A European Wild West as Airlines Eye Opportunities

March 2021
10 min read
Edward Russell and Madhu Unnikrishnan

Issue Overview

European airlines are looking beyond the exceptionally bad year they had last year and the possibly grim year this year to a brighter future. Many, like Lufthansa Group, are shuffling the pieces around internally to take advantage of any demand recovery that may occur. Others, like Ryanair, are capitalizing on their leisure-traffic strength to plan for what could be a quite a summer. And all are rushing to fill the vacuum left behind by Norwegian's retrenchment.