United Airlines Quarter
densification

A Quarter of Questions: Why is United blighted, and other key questions arising from America’s Q1 earnings season

densification

A Quarter of Questions: Why is United blighted, and other key questions arising from America’s Q1 earnings season

May 2014
2 min read
Seth Kaplan

Issue Overview

Nothing seems to stop the vastly restructured U.S. airline industry from piling on profits—not an off-peak period, not an Easter date shift, not a new set of pilot regulations, not rising labor costs and not even winter storms of biblical proportions.