Issues

Air Arabia

The Other Gulf Carriers: The high-flying Big Three get the headlines. But Gulf LCCs are making a splash of their own

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…

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

Air France

Trading Places: In one of 10 key trends, European airlines are—like a 1980s film plot—swapping roles

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

China Southern

Qantastative Easing: Why are Qantas shares surging? Because overnight, the airline has gone from gloom to boom

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

Frontier

A Two-Horse Race Again: Denver’s seemingly sudden air service slowdown masks some key underlying strengths

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.

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

American

Lessons Unlearned: U.S. airlines try to keep the profit party going as economic conditions change yet again

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

easyJet

A Nervous Champion: Swiss is one of Europe’s most profitable airlines. So why is it so intent on reform?

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…

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

Allegiant

Defying Gravity: Why Allegiant, despite its share of problems, remains a profit champion

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…

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

Beijing’s Bygone Buzz: A capital capacity crunch has Beijing barely hanging on as China’s busiest airline market

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…

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

Ryanair

The Purple Dinosaur Killer: How Wizz Air is quietly earning industry-leading profit margins

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,…

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

Emirates

Suddenly Surging: Why long-stagnant Orlando is now a hot market, attracting airlines from around the globe

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago