Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 40: Emirates Strikes Back
Emirates last week posted an operating margin nearing 10% for its fiscal year. That’s significantly better than the 7% the year before and a whole lot better than the 5%, 4%, and 3% posted in the year...
17 Touko 201630min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 39: Eurowing and a Prayer
Is growing Eurowings a safe bet? Lufthansa’s low-cost unit had a rough first quarter and that might not be the last. Eurowings is growing like gangbusters, propelling itself into the teeth of a crowde...
10 Touko 201632min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 38: Delta CEO Interview
Delta’s new CEO Ed Bastian thinks it’s great that the competition is trying to catch up to Delta in terms of operational performance. He also says, without hesitation, that the competition—namely Amer...
4 Touko 201632min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 37: Southwest and Alaska Outperform
While Delta, American and United have all seen both revenues and costs dropping, Southwest and Alaska just experienced the opposite in the first quarter. In fact, Southwest and Alaska rode a wave of r...
26 Huhti 201625min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 36: Delta Feels No Pain
Here’s a simple recipe for success: Make all the right moves in all the right places. Whether overseas or in the U.S., Delta has managed to avoid the pockets of pain being experienced by its U.S. peer...
20 Huhti 201631min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 35: Chinese Airlines Show Stress
Is China’s slowing economy taking its toll on the country’s Big Three carriers? So far Air China, China Eastern and China Southern have held up well and posted a rather good 2015. But the fourth quart...
13 Huhti 201629min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 34: Will Virgin and Alaska Be Happy Together?
Alaska Airlines clearly wants to be the dominant carrier on the West Coast, and if its purchase of Virgin America goes through, it will have four focus cities—Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and ...
6 Huhti 201632min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 33: Is Virgin Merging With Alaska?
If the U.S. airline market were to see even more consolidation, what kind of effect would it have? That’s one question we consider in a discussion about the possible acquisition of Virgin America by a...
29 Maalis 201630min
