Jay Shabat

Aeromexico's Q2 was a fuel-and-World-Cup dent, not a demand crack, and a record premium mix plus a shrinking domestic rivalry point the rest of the year sharply up.

A soaring fuel bill would have flattened the earnings of many airlines. Delta's premium-heavy revenue base meant a four-point margin decline instead of a total rout.

All eyes are on EasyJet takeover talk in Europe, but across the Atlantic, it's about to be Delta's turn in the sun.

With the groundings behind him and fuel falling, CEO Nikhil Ravishankar loses many of the excuses. The three-pillar reset now has to deliver on its own.

With new investment from Air France-KLM Group, it looks like SAS' new owners have big plans for the Scandi carrier and specifically its Copenhagen hub.

The Iran war handed some European and East Asian carriers a windfall they didn't earn and handed every airline a fuel bill they couldn't avoid. The industry's pricing power has held — so far — but the second half will show whether that was resilience or just the absence of a better option.

Next time you’re in Las Vegas, don’t bet on the number six. During the first four months of this year, passenger traffic at Las Vegas airport was down 6% versus the same four months last year.

Airlines always find something to complain about. At last week's IATA annual gathering in Rio, fuel costs weren't the only sore spot — some of the loudest frustrations were aimed at companies making engines and other vital parts. In this week's feature story, we unpack the key AGM themes and biggest talking points, and ask what they mean for the industry's outlook.

It wasn't all that long ago that Iberia was fighting for survival. Today, it boasts Ryanair-like profitability. The Spanish flag carrier has transformed itself from a loss-making legacy laggard into a margin machine. How did Iberia pull it off — and can the success continue? We explore a great comeback in this week's feature story.

U.S. airline consolidation chatter is deafening. But it might be much talk about nothing. At last week’s Bernstein investor conference, airline CEOs poured cold water on the speculation. United’s Scott Kirby called the economics of buying JetBlue “mathematically close to impossible."