Articles tagged “Ryanair”

easyJet

EasyJet Does It: Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 17

Not so surprisingly, easyJet wrapped up a strong earnings season in Europe with some strong numbers of its own. We looked at what’s working for easyJet but also why it…

Seth Kaplan | 9 years ago

Emirates

End of an Era at Emirates? Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 15

Is Emirates Airline running out of room to fulfill its jumbo-sized ambitions? The Gulf carrier’s combined second- and third-quarter earnings report went over with another “meh.” Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad…

Seth Kaplan | 9 years ago

American

Lufthansa’s Competition Grows: Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 11

Lufthansa is facing competition from Ryanair, Wizz Air, easyJet, Air Berlin, Vueling, Turkish Airlines, Emirates and probably your brother. Competition is not a new thing, but the severity is growing.…

Seth Kaplan | 9 years ago

LCC

Cheap Cologne: Across Germany, Ryanair and other LCCs are growing, and Lufthansa is fighting back

As it prepares for next summer’s peak season, Europe’s largest low-cost carrier has opportunities—opportunities as far as the eye can see. With fuel prices down, profits surging, economies recovering, new…

Seth Kaplan | 9 years ago

Air France

The European Earnings Picture Is Complicated: Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 3

With most European airlines having now reported second-quarter earnings, the picture is filling in. But it’s a mosaic—not a portrait. Some carriers did well. Some did lousy. One thing we…

Seth Kaplan | 9 years ago

Air France

Trading Places: In one of 10 key trends, European airlines are—like a 1980s film plot—swapping roles

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

Allegiant

Defying Gravity: Why Allegiant, despite its share of problems, remains a profit champion

Its boldest experiment ever—flying to Hawaii—was a failure. Now it’s stuck with a half dozen B757s it wouldn’t have bought if not for that venture. So it now has three…

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

Ryanair

The Purple Dinosaur Killer: How Wizz Air is quietly earning industry-leading profit margins

Unlike that Cretaceous cartoon character Barney, Wizz Air is not—despite the look of its aircraft—a purple dinosaur. But it is a purple slayer of dinosaurs. It was instrumental, for example,…

Seth Kaplan | 10 years ago

Air France

Flight of the Living Dead: Zombie airlines are haunting Europe’s excessively fragmented airline sector

Forget the strike-prone labor unions, the government austerity, the economic doldrums, the high taxation, the overregulation, the expensive airports, the opposition to airport expansion, the wasteful Eurocontrol regime, the heavy…

Seth Kaplan | 11 years ago

Brussels Airlines

The Brussels Hustle: Suddenly, there’s an airline boom in the European Union’s capital city

After two straight years of quiet, the bells of Belgium are ringing.

Seth Kaplan | 11 years ago