Issues

It was all doom and gloom as United CFO Andrew Levy addressed a Cowen Transportation conference last week. Doom and gloom? In the super-profitable U.S. airline industry?

In a new book about China, Harvard professor Graham Allison provides a list of astonishing facts about the country’s economic development. In 1980, its gross domestic product was less than…

Google. Apple. Facebook. Delta?

The alarm bells are ringing. The concerns are mounting. Is Norwegian, with its bold experiment in low-cost longhaul flying, falling apart?

It was an earnings call so uncomfortable that anyone who listened or participated still recalls it well.

Last week was a great week for San Antonio International Airport. True, it was far from the only U.S. airport to benefit from Frontier’s blitz of new route announcements (21…

Finally, the future of Alitalia might be secured. Air India’s possible privatization gives it the chance of a lifetime to become more than just a drain on taxpayers. A new…

There’s a modestly-sized airline—87 planes—whose nonfuel costs are expected to swell some 9% to 12% this year, even as its unit revenues decline. For the first quarter of this year…

With the global economy perking up and oil prices falling again, airlines in most parts of the world are looking forward to the second half of 2017. In the first…

Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing are East Asia’s three largest airline markets. But just behind Beijing, in terms of airport seats scheduled, is the massive Bangkok market, split across two hyper-busy…