Issues

As it prepares for next summer’s peak season, Europe’s largest low-cost carrier has opportunities—opportunities as far as the eye can see. With fuel prices down, profits surging, economies recovering, new…

Many airlines, like many people, become more resistant to change as they age. Take Southwest, now in its 40s. Many of its policies and practices are no different now from…

It’s really nothing new. People Express and Laker Airways tried low-cost, low-fare transatlantic flying three decades ago. But the trend never really stuck, giving way instead to the dominance of…

It calls itself the “pride of Africa,” and for good reason. On a continent notorious for extremely difficult operating conditions, Kenya Airways has since 1977 offered Africans safe and reliable…

Is it the jockey? Or is it the horse?

The leaves are changing color. The weather’s getting cooler. And it now costs more to book a Lufthansa ticket through a global distribution system.

The days when Aeroflot was the world’s largest airline—as the flag carrier of the Soviet Union—are a decades-old memory. But plenty of travelers, including a fair number from outside Russia,…

Skymark Airlines never made it beyond Japan’s borders. Too bad, because what it would have found is a Japanese international market that’s on fire.

By now it’s clear to all: The dominant theme for U.S. airlines during the springtime second quarter was profitability—immense profitability, driven by much cheaper fuel. In fact, the country’s 10…

Doing something 40 consecutive times might sound boring. But there’s nothing boring about WestJet, which will this week announce its 41st consecutive quarter of profitability. The last time it reported…