While on one level the headlines from Ryanair’s second quarter results offer plenty of reasons for concern, it is encouraged by an easing of recent yield declines and a growth advantage next year
Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways remain optimistic of meeting their full-year earnings targets, on the back of strong international travel demand – in addition to strong yields – and despite rising costs
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Demand for international air travel helped push Air Canada to a C$1 billion ($720 million) operating profit in the third quarter of 2024, with executives broadly describing market conditions as healthy despite upward-creeping costs and ongoing aircraft delivery delays.
Southwest Airlines executives maintain that major changes underway at the Dallas-based company will be enough to regain its status as a top-performing US carrier by 2027.
Frontier Airlines’ chief executive Barry Biffle repeatedly declined on 29 October to discuss reports of the company’s potentially renewed interest in acquiring Spirit Airlines, more than two years after Spirit left Frontier at the altar in favour of a more lucrative deal with JetBlue Airways.
After a challenging first half of the year in which it has twice lowered profit expectations, Lufthansa Group was able to point to a brighter prognosis on yields as it is confirmed its full-year outlook following its third quarter results today.
Latin American Airlines need to tell a better story so that the region’s governments will be more amenable to creating policies that would make it easier for the carriers to operate, and for their populations to benefit from air travel.
The uncertainty that the airline industry is having to deal with since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic – delivery delays, taxation hikes, geopolitical instability – has made it more difficult for managers to plan, but it has also made the entire segment more resilient, IATA director general Willie Walsh tells Airline Business
As host of the 20th ALTA AGM and Airline Leaders Forum this week, Bahamasair has itself a lot to celebrate.
As the airline association gathers in Nassau, its chief executive Jose Ricardo Botelho outlines untapped opportunities in the event’s host region and concerns about Latin American government attitudes towards aviation
Having led the airline for nearly 20 years, Peter Foster prepares to take Air Astana to its post-IPO future
Marie Owens Thomsen is frustrated about government inaction on SAF and CORSIA, but optimistic regarding what might come from ’radical collaboration’ between stakeholders
Basic economics suggest fares will continue to fall in many markets while costs are unlikely to follow suit, writes CTAIRA’s Chris Tarry
It is hard to think of any area of the airline business that will be unchanged as the net-zero effort intensifies, argues airline marketing specialist Shashank Nigam
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