Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 57: South African Airways Is Troubled
South African Airways finally published its fiscal year results for the 12 months ending March 2015. Yes, that’s 2015. And the result—a $442m net loss—wasn’t worth the wait. But with the Ebola scare a...
27 Sep 201631min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 56: Frontier Airlines CEO Interview
Because Frontier Airlines is a non-publicly-traded carrier (which, for one thing, means it doesn’t have earnings calls), it’s all the more interesting to interview the airline's CEO Barry Biffle. Of c...
20 Sep 201624min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 55: Canadian Continuity
Despite a major oil bust and the weakening currency that followed, Canada’s airlines continue to plod along. Make no mistake, macro issues are leaving a mark on the earnings reports of Air Canada and ...
13 Sep 201633min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 54: Qantas' Down Under Wonder
Qantas reported a best-ever annual result. Not bad for a company that’s 95 years old. And not bad for a company that was barely breaking even just a few years ago. Virgin Australia, on the other hand,...
6 Sep 201638min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 53: Korean Competitive Crunch
Korean carriers Asiana and Korean Air are being squeezed between rapid growth from Chinese carriers and new capacity coming out of Japan. But nonetheless, the two Korean carriers posted some of the mo...
16 Aug 201624min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 52: Don't Dismiss Swiss Airlines
One of the bright spots in the Lufthansa Group’s second quarter earnings report was its Swiss unit, which bested Lufthansa mainline, the Austrian unit and even the healthy maintenance unit. Meanwhile,...
9 Aug 201629min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 51: Air France Is Missing Out
The second quarter year-over-year profit margin improved at Air France/KLM, but only because of a huge windfall from fuel. In fact, the real story is that the airline group is largely missing out on p...
2 Aug 201623min
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 50: Have U.S. Airlines Peaked?
Earnings season is in full swing and really there’s too much to talk about within the average commute or treadmill run. So we’ll talk fast. And in this episode, our fast talk starts with American Airl...
26 Juli 201637min
