Daily Airline News

Is it silly to worry about an airline that earned a 22% operating margin last quarter? Maybe “worry” is too strong a word. But concerns about Spirit Airlines are serious,…

Poor financial results. Heavy indebtedness. And of course, labor unrest. All three come quickly to mind when thinking about Air France/KLM in its current troubled state. But it’s the French…

Napoléon Bonaparte resigns as French emperor to command the English army. Steve Jobs leaves Apple to run Microsoft. American Airlines President Scott Kirby steps aside and quickly becomes president of…

Nothing has changed. Yet everything has changed.

The Alberta oil boom is history. Canada’s economy as a whole is barely growing. And the last time a Canadian hockey team won the Stanley Cup was more than two…

How did they do it? How did U.S. airlines— especially legacy airlines— transform themselves, over the course of a decade, from financial laughingstocks of the global airline industry into paragons…

It was supposed to be a week dominated by financial reports for U.S. airlines. But for all the many developments there, none seemed as eye-popping and head-turning as the doom…

Twenty years ago, with oil prices low and profits at their peak, U.S. airlines went shopping for airplanes. In one memorable deal from the late 1990s, Delta ordered up to…

Virgins don’t survive on their own. That’s the lesson drawn from Virgin Atlantic’s partial sale to Delta, Virgin America’s all-out sale to Alaska and a much earlier transaction between Belgium’s…

It’s Independence Day in America, and the beginning of the year’s second half for all the world’s airlines, which thus far have a lot to celebrate. Collectively, the airline industry…