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Week 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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Fleets
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Week 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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Why 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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Resist 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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Why 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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Week 16 2024: Has Delta set bar impossibly high?
Delta Air Lines kicked off the latest quarterly earnings season last week with a message so positive that it almost feels inevitable that sentiment only has one direction to travel as more airlines reveal their first-quarter 2024 performances.
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Airlines are back, yes, but not necessarily better
As traffic returns to pre-Covid levels, more airlines will discover that inconvenient market fundamentals still apply