Articles tagged “Global Analysis”

Cost pressures. Cooling demand. Geopolitical turbulence. Despite all of this, the second quarter of 2024 was a good one for the global passenger airline industry. Collectively, major airlines that disclose their quarterly financial results (most of them do) earned an 8% Q2 operating margin adjusted for special items. Airline Weekly crunches the big numbers for our flagship quarterly review.

Air France/KLM is sick and tired of winning bronze medals. IAG always takes the gold. Lufthansa always takes the silver. And that's unlikely to change this summer, with the Olympic…

Well, that was awkward. With Elliott Management breathing down its neck, Southwest’s management told investors that its earlier forecasts were (whoops) way off. Unit revenues for the second quarter, alas,…