
Is Your Airline a Pollyanna or Cassandra?
We're in the thick of U.S. airline first-quarter earnings, and executives almost across the board are optimistic that the industry has turned the corner. But is that optimism misplaced? Brazil, after ...
22 Apr 202129min

Ottawa Lends a Hand to Air Canada
After not getting any aid from the Canadia government, Air Canada finally got about $5 billion in assistance. Skift Airlines Reporter Edward "Ned" Russell and Airline Weekly Editor Madhu Unnikrishnan ...
16 Apr 202127min

Is There That Much Pent-Up Demand?
It's a reunion for Brian Sumers, Skift editor at large, and Airline Weekly Editor Madhu Unnikrishnan, as they debate whether there really is that much pent-up demand for travel. Airlines are banking o...
9 Apr 202122min

Delta's Bad Week in the News
Georgia's controversial new elections law caused a public relations nightmare for Delta Air Lines and its CEO Ed Bastian, whose first, tepid comment on the law caused immense blowback and calls to boy...
1 Apr 202127min

Will It Be a Cruel, Cruel Summer?
Qatar Airways thinks leisure and visiting friends and relatives traffic will rebound this summer, and it thinks it has the right fleet for the moment. And Eurowings is betting the same, planning its f...
24 Mars 202127min

Is the Airline Industry's Bullishness Misplaced?
U.S. airline CEOs are pretty confident that they've turned the corner. The pandemic isn't in the rearview mirror yet, but they're fairly certain travel will rebound this summer, and some think their a...
19 Mars 202126min

Frontier's IPO: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
In this week's episode, Airline Weekly colleagues Edward "Ned" Russell and Madhu Unnikrishnan get into why going public may not be the craziest idea of an airline, despite the once-in-a-century indust...
12 Mars 202127min

Cargo and Maxes
Much of the world is trapped at home and shopping online. Who's transporting all those goods? Airlines, and cargo. has been the one silver lining in the airline's terrible pandemic year. But it's not ...
4 Mars 202128min





















