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Airline BusinessAirline news digest: 19-25 April 2025
Our regular rundown of the biggest airline stories from the past seven days.
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Airline BusinessAlaska unfazed by domestic swoon amid premium and international expansion plans
Alaska Air Group is among several US airlines to observe eroding demand for domestic seats while maintaining robust premium and international segments.
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Airline BusinessUncertainty rules as American is latest US carrier to report domestic weakness
When American Airlines executives discussed the operator’s first-quarter 2025 earnings on 24 April there was one word that kept being repeated over and over in the context of the US economy: uncertainty.
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Airline BusinessQ4 2024 report for benchmark Latin American airlines
Full fourth-quarter results from Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in the Latin America region show them recording lower profitability year on year in US dollar terms, as currency issues in particular weighed on the aggregate data.
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Airline BusinessWeek 17 2025: Potential recession weighs on US outlook
This week is a busy one for US airline earnings, with three of the biggest players set to outline their performances for the January-March period – and their outlooks amid the uncertainties created by the policies of the Donald Trump administration
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Airline BusinessMoving on from supply chain ‘headwinds’, Malaysia Airlines eyes premium opportunity
As it reported a third consecutive year of profitability, the parent of Malaysia Airlines is looking to balance its growth ambitions with “a future of stability”.
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Airline BusinessAirline news digest: 12-18 April 2025
Our regular rundown of the biggest airline stories from the past seven days.
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Airline BusinessEconomic pressure comes as Spirit and other ULCCs already feeling squeezed
As airline earnings season kicks off in earnest, industry observers believe that the discount sector is about to deliver a bunch of bad news.
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Airline BusinessFull-year 2024 report for benchmark Asia-Pacific airlines
Full-year 2024 data for Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Asia-Pacific shows the region’s carriers essentially matching 2023’s operating profit and falling slightly short at a net level, in a year that started and ended with improved quarterly results
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Airline BusinessUnited chief Kirby claims victory in wrestling customers away from Southwest
United Airlines chief executive Scott Kirby is taking another victory lap, this time attributing the carrier’s profitability amid softening demand to its transformation into a sector leader in brand loyalty.
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Airline BusinessUnfazed by ‘uncertainties’, Korean Air talks up profitability focus as revenues improve
Korean Air is on “enhancing profitability” in the near term amid warnings of political and economic “uncertainties”, even as it anticipates strong travel demand in the first half of this year
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Airline BusinessWeek 16 2025: Watching for stress-fractures in US leisure and low-cost markets
With Delta Air Lines last week disclosing that it expects little to no growth in 2025 and Frontier Airlines also lowering its full-year financial expectations, attention now turns to the first-quarter performance and outlook of United Airlines.
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Airline BusinessAirline news digest: 7-11 April 2025
Our regular rundown of the biggest airline stories from the past seven days.
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Airline BusinessPSA Airlines chief Dion Flannery pursuing ‘well-orchestrated growth plan’
After long grappling with a sharp pilot shortage that left many of its jets grounded and its fleet underutilised, US regional carrier PSA Airlines finds itself in a different position.
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Airline BusinessDelta yet to see ‘cracks’ in core premium and international markets as growth slows
Bringing tidings of weakening demand and stalling growth, Delta Air Lines executives say they remain relatively confident in the company’s critical premium and international markets.
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Airline BusinessFull-year 2024 performance report for benchmark European airlines
Full-year 2024 data for Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Europe shows the region’s carriers falling short of 2023 profitability, albeit the gap was reduced as fortunes improved in the second half of the year and their results were significantly ahead of 2019 earnings.
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Airline BusinessQ4 2024 performance report for benchmark Asia-Pacific airlines
Full fourth-quarter 2024 data from Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Asia-Pacific shows a strong year-end rebound in operating profit profitability after two consecutive quarters of decline.
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Airline BusinessWeek 15 2025: Tariff uncertainty looms large as earnings season kicks off
Fresh off the news that US president Donald Trump is imposing sweeping tariffs globally, an anxious airline sector braces for impact, just as earnings season kicks in.
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Airline BusinessAirline news digest: 31 March - 4 April 2025
Our regular rundown of the biggest airline stories from the past seven days.
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Airline BusinessBusting the airline demand management myths
Sustainability policies that do not reflect the reality of growth trends worldwide risk ‘carbon colonialism’, writes SimpliFlying’s Shashank Nigam