Issues

Cheap or expensive? In 2005, as American’s CEO Doug Parker reminded investors during the carrier’s recent Q3 earnings presentation, the WTI price of oil was about $56 per barrel. Lord…

Long overlooked in a region with legions of more established carriers, Vietnam Airlines is now grabbing the airline industry’s attention. This fall, it became just the second airline worldwide to…

During the first half of 2015, no U.S. airline enjoyed stronger y/y RASM trends than JetBlue. And sure enough again last week, the New York-based LCC reported a 1% rise…

As it prepares for next summer’s peak season, Europe’s largest low-cost carrier has opportunities—opportunities as far as the eye can see. With fuel prices down, profits surging, economies recovering, new…

Many airlines, like many people, become more resistant to change as they age. Take Southwest, now in its 40s. Many of its policies and practices are no different now from…

It’s really nothing new. People Express and Laker Airways tried low-cost, low-fare transatlantic flying three decades ago. But the trend never really stuck, giving way instead to the dominance of…

It calls itself the “pride of Africa,” and for good reason. On a continent notorious for extremely difficult operating conditions, Kenya Airways has since 1977 offered Africans safe and reliable…

Is it the jockey? Or is it the horse?

The leaves are changing color. The weather’s getting cooler. And it now costs more to book a Lufthansa ticket through a global distribution system.

The days when Aeroflot was the world’s largest airline—as the flag carrier of the Soviet Union—are a decades-old memory. But plenty of travelers, including a fair number from outside Russia,…