American Airlines CEO Robert Isom on Trump, Boeing and New Routes
From perspectives on a second Trump presidency to the challenges at Boeing - you can't afford to miss these exclusive insights from one of the biggest names in U.S. aviation.
From perspectives on a second Trump presidency to the challenges at Boeing - you can't afford to miss these exclusive insights from one of the biggest names in U.S. aviation.
It wasn’t Delta’s greatest summer. Enough went wrong (the CrowdStrike disruption, lost business during the Olympics) to spoil all that went right (strong demand, cheaper fuel). Fortunately, almost everything’s coming up roses this fall, including heavy capacity cuts by domestic rivals. Will United finally beat Delta in the margin fight? We’ll find out later this week, when Scott Kirby and company report for Q3.
What’s the right tool to fix Southwest? A scalpel or a sledgehammer? As a Wall Street dissident leans toward the latter, calling for wholesale change in the airline’s executive ranks, the executives themselves are championing a less radical approach. What the company needs, argued CEO Bob Jordan last week, is not a new leadership team but a network and inflight product adapted to meet new post-Covid trends.
Airline Weekly analysis of Cirium Diio data shows fascinating shifts in Southwest's route network over the past decade. In this week's episode we drill into the detail.