Articles tagged “U.S. airlines”

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…

The first quarter of 2016 is shaping up to be another highly profitable one for U.S. airlines, underpinned by still-falling fuel prices and an economy held aloft by strong consumer…

Cheap or expensive? In 2005, as American’s CEO Doug Parker reminded investors during the carrier’s recent Q3 earnings presentation, the WTI price of oil was about $56 per barrel. Lord…

U.S. airlines aren’t just earning big profits. They’re earning bigger profits, bigger with each successive year. Consider this: In the second quarter of 2011, the industry collectively managed a 6%…

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…

Nothing seems to stop the vastly restructured U.S. airline industry from piling on profits—not an off-peak period, not an Easter date shift, not a new set of pilot regulations, not…