All Airline Business articles – Page 36
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Airline BusinessChina factor continues to have big impact on airline industry recovery trends
IATA’s latest monthly data on passenger demand continues to show mostly double-digit year-on-year rises in traffic and capacity, reflecting an industry that still spent much of 2023 playing catch-up with pre-Covid levels, particularly in international markets.
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Airline BusinessLufthansa takes actions as it counts cost of strikes and new pay deals
While Lufthansa Group put much of the focus on strike disruption for the trebling of first quarter losses and a reduced profit outlook for the year, it is almost mindful of the cost implications related to the new pay deals it took to end the disputes.
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Airline BusinessAir France-KLM looks past tricky first quarter towards ‘promising’ summer
Air France-KLM’s latest earnings release essentially left the group in a holding pattern for the coming year in financial terms, with executives expecting better times in the subsequent nine months after tricky operating conditions and one-off costs dented its early 2024 performance.
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Airline BusinessMarch air cargo volumes up 10%: IATA
Positive momentum for air cargo demand continued in March as it became the fourth consecutive month of double-digit year-on-year growth
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Airline BusinessWeek 18 2024: Can European majors fulfil capacity and consolidation aspirations?
This week attention turns to European carrier outlooks as Air France-KLM and Lufthansa become the first of the major European airline groups to report their first quarter financial performance.
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Airline BusinessGoJet dangles hefty signing bonus for captains amid revival of 40 CRJ-family jets
Rick Leach, chief executive of GoJet Airlines, sees a rare opportunity in front of the St Louis-based regional carrier created by slackening demand for pilots among its major US counterparts.
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Airline BusinessSouthwest considering ‘transformational’ changes to single-class cabin: CEO
Southwest Airlines is exploring changes to its single-class cabin, potentially signalling an eventual departure from the carrier’s signature system of no assigned seating.
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Airline BusinessAmerican Airlines ‘on track’ for full-year guidance despite first quarter loss
American Airlines executives point to positive material changes as the year progresses from its loss-making first quarter as reasons why it remains optimistic of meeting its full-year financial targets.
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Airline BusinessNorwegian buoyed by Wideroe impact as losses cut in first quarter
Norwegian flagged improved yields and load factors, together with a boost from the less seasonally affected Wideroe business, during a first quarter in which the airline narrowed operating losses to NKr763 million ($70 million).
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Airline BusinessFleets
Our fleets dashboard combines key data from all of the airlines/groups in our Profiles section, providing macro insights on the industry’s fleet make-up at a regional and global level. The broad range of airlines/groups covered creates a comprehensive picture of trends across the whole airline sector STATUS: 2026 data updates ...
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Airline BusinessAir Transat reaching for new horizon with flights to Africa
Eastern Canada’s Air Transat has big ambitions to expand transatlantic flying with its growing fleet of long-range jets, and Africa is now within reach.
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Airline BusinessJetBlue loses $716m amid myriad first-quarter struggles
US carrier JetBlue Airways lost $716 million in the first quarter as “significant elevated capacity” in Latin America and on domestic routes cut into the already-struggling airline’s performance.
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Airline BusinessWeek 17 2024: US carriers join Boeing in outlining first-quarter performance
This week sees US carriers continue their earnings season, with American Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways and Southwest Airlines all due to report.
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Airline BusinessAlaska and United bemoan strong quarters spoiled by Max 9 grounding
On back-to-back days, executives from two major US airlines described how a major safety scare and the related weeks-long grounding of all Boeing 737 Max 9 jets undermined both companies’ otherwise strong first-quarter performances.
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Airline BusinessWhy United’s ‘moat’ gives Kirby confidence high margins are structural
When United Airlines beat analyst expectations this week with a smaller-than-expected first-quarter loss and higher-than-expected revenues, one person who was not surprised was chief executive Scott Kirby.
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Airline BusinessResist political pressure to renege on ESG commitments
The airline industry must not be tempted to undo its achievements so far on workforce diversity and the huge net-zero challenge by embracing the regressive policies favoured by politicians who might soon hold the balance of power in some geographies
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Airline BusinessWhy United is right to lead team of rivals in sustainability fund
The US major is setting an example for others to follow by engaging its competitors with its Sustainable Flight Fund
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Airline BusinessJetSmart looks to grow in Argentina as economics and regulations improve: CEO
After launching domestic service in Colombia last month, JetSmart chief executive Estuardo Ortiz is already marching toward his next conquest – Argentina – with the goal of taking advantage of seismic economic and regulatory changes.
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Airline BusinessAvelo doubles down on core strategies three years after launching as start-up
Three years have passed since US start-up Avelo Airlines first took off from Burbank, California with an aggressive plan to carve a niche among established ultra-low-cost carriers (ULCCs).
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Airline BusinessSpirit Airlines on track for greater Q1 loss than expected
US discounter Spirit Airlines is bracing for a greater first-quarter loss than previously anticipated due to how it is accounting for $150-$200 million in compensation from Pratt & Whitney (P&W) for its grounded Airbus A320neo-family aircraft.