Articles tagged “airline weekly”

Sun Country Airlines' successful, diversified business model met its match in the pilot shortage.

Is the pilot shortage U.S. airlines face only about the number of pilots, or are pay and quality of life part of it? The CEO of small Contour Airlines argues it's the latter.

JetBlue has the takeover deal it wanted. But before getting control of its rival Spirit, Washington will need to give its green light. Here are the ways this could unfold.

Southwest Airlines had a secret weapon in the second quarter: Its fuel hedges. That helped propel it to an impressive 17 percent operating margin.

The June quarter was highlighted by a surge in air travel and marred by high oil prices, but some airlines had a secret weapon.

Lufthansa sees schedules to remaining constrained through the fall as airlines recover from their bad summer. That means higher fares for travelers, but also profits for some carriers.

IndiGo is focused on growth as Indian flyers have caught the "travel bug," as CEO Ronojoy Dutta put it. All it needs now are fuel and foreign exchange pressures to ease and it'll be back in the black too.

JetBlue's cost problems shone brightly in the second quarter when, despite record revenues, the airline lost money. The airline's planned merger with Spirit is only likely to exacerbate the situation.

Asia's slow reopening is beginning to show dividends for Japan's airlines. ANA and JAL are seeing travelers return aided in no part by their main Tokyo hub sitting smack dab between North America and Southeast Asia.

Airlines and airports longed for the day travelers would return during the pandemic. But now that they're here, it's obvious the industry was vastly underprepared.