Articles tagged “Delta”

By just a tenth of a percent, United’s fourth quarter operating profit margin bested that of Delta—and likely that of American, which reports later—making United, for the quarter, No.1 among…

Rising labor costs at Delta dented its fourth quarter results significantly—but not enough to prevent the airline from posting a terrific profit for 2016. And the big story within the…

Korean carriers Asiana and Korean Air are being squeezed between rapid growth from Chinese carriers and new capacity coming out of Japan. But nonetheless, the two Korean carriers posted some…

One of the bright spots in the Lufthansa Group’s second quarter earnings report was its Swiss unit, which bested Lufthansa mainline, the Austrian unit and even the healthy maintenance unit.…

How did they do it? How did U.S. airlines— especially legacy airlines— transform themselves, over the course of a decade, from financial laughingstocks of the global airline industry into paragons…

Earnings season is in full swing and really there’s too much to talk about within the average commute or treadmill run. So we’ll talk fast. And in this episode, our…

Delta Airlines gets a lot of play in this episode, but it’s not because we’re obsessed with Delta. Rather, there are two practical reasons: First, Delta is the the earliest…

Twenty years ago, with oil prices low and profits at their peak, U.S. airlines went shopping for airplanes. In one memorable deal from the late 1990s, Delta ordered up to…

Delta’s new CEO Ed Bastian thinks it’s great that the competition is trying to catch up to Delta in terms of operational performance. He also says, without hesitation, that the…

The first quarter of 2016 was another supremely profitable one for U.S. airlines, which walked away with almost $3.4b in net profits, with an unthinkably high 16% operating margin—this during…