Issues

Avianca, Latin America’s second largest airline after LATAM, wants to improve its balance sheet. That’s evident from recent decisions to slow growth, slash capital spending, defer $1.4b worth of aircraft…

If the best you’ve done all decade was a 2% operating margin (in 2012), then you’ve got problems. And if all you could muster during last year’s cheap fuel environment…

There’s nothing new about this phenomenon. Since the star of the decade, China’s airlines have expanded their international flying with double-digit zeal— perhaps no surprise given the Chinese economy’s equally…

Three years into the new decade, America’s most successful airline of all time was no longer—by its own lofty standards, anyway—so successful. In 2012, for the second straight year, Southwest…

Its hub geography is terrible. It has limited scale. It has a small home economy with relatively high labor costs.

The first quarter of 2016 was another supremely profitable one for U.S. airlines, which walked away with almost $3.4b in net profits, with an unthinkably high 16% operating margin—this during…

When thinking about airlines around the world that carry large volumes of corporate travelers, which ones come to mind? Singapore Airlines? Lufthansa? Qantas?

Let’s play word association. What’s the first thing that comes to mind about Dubai’s economy? You might say Emirates, the city-state’s globally famous airline. Qatar and Abu Dhabi too have…

In 2015, Greece suffered yet another drop in GDP, shrinking this time by about 2%. This means the Greek economy today is more than 25% smaller than it was in…

Aside from its much smaller rival Allegiant, Alaska Airlines was the most profitable airline in the world last year, measured by operating profit margin. That’s right—in the entire world. So…