Articles tagged “Europe”

When the North Atlantic market is good, British Airways performs strongly. BA's spectacular numbers suggest something is going very right.

Should Finnair hire a party planner, or a funeral director? No, it’s not in danger of dying. But after a surprisingly strong showing in 2023 and 2024, 2025 is looking uncomfortably fraught with peril. Labor unrest. Ballooning costs. A once-prized Asian network still disrupted. It’s enough to make any airline nervous, let alone a smallish government-owned carrier that lacks scale. In this week's edition, we ask if Finnair can defy the odds again.

There’s a lot going right at United. Another strong financial result last quarter—and last year—places it alongside Delta in the circle of America’s global champions. Not so American. While avoiding…

Aegean Airlines has painful memories. In the early 2010s, Greece was in the throes of a great depression, a crisis that nearly forced it out of the euro-zone. The airline, sure enough, suffered three straight years of losses from 2010 to 2012, aggravated by a surge in fuel prices. This week we discover how Aegean not only survived, but thrived under intense macroeconomic pressure.

Europe’s economy isn’t exactly firing on all cylinders. If anything, it’s the booming inbound tourism sector that’s preventing an outright recession. Yet outbound tourism remains strong too, notably from Germany…

Jet Who? Jet2. You’ve heard of Ryanair. You’ve heard of EasyJet. But have you heard of the largest U.K. tour operator?

Their first quarter figures weren’t pretty. But Lufthansa and Air France/KLM remain hopeful that strong demand—combined with short supply—will help them overcome rising costs. The all-important summer peak is fast…

In this week's episode, Gordon Smith and Jay Shabat take a deep-dive into the latest earnings from carriers across the European continent. From airline supergroups to more niche Nordic players,…

In this week's Airline Weekly Lounge podcast, Gordon Smith and Jay Shabat discuss the latest developments from the Lufthansa Group and explain why the German flag carrier is trailing competitors.…

In this week's edition of the Airline Weekly Lounge Podcast, Gordon Smith and Jay Shabat examine the latest results from IAG to find out how they compare with Air France-KLM.…