Issues

As Airline Weekly regularly warns when reporting AirAsia’s quarterly net results, things are not always as they seem. Last fall, for example (on Sept. 1, 2014), readers were advised to…

SAS hopes to please stakeholders with an array of ongoing structural reforms when it reports its February-to-April quarterly results this week. The airline—its post-9/11 history a relentless race between falling…

Yes, worries are mounting about U.S. airlines losing their domestic capacity discipline. Delta and United even raised fears last week of economic weakness denting domestic demand. But let’s not forget:…

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…

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.

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…