Issues
Cebu Who? Many people have never heard of it. But Cebu Pacific is quietly becoming a profit champ
In the year’s first quarter, Allegiant and Spirit were the world’s two most profitable lowcost carriers, measured by operating margin. Can you name the third?
Delta’s Two Aces: Delta was the least profitable among the U.S. Big Three last quarter. Expect that to change.
Something highly unusual happened in the first quarter of 2015: Mighty Delta found itself dead last in its contest with American and United for profit margin supremacy among U.S.-based global…
Phony Fernandes? Not exactly. AirAsia has messy accounting, but its low-cost credentials are indisputable
As Airline Weekly regularly warns when reporting AirAsia’s quarterly net results, things are not always as they seem. Last fall, for example (on Sept. 1, 2014), readers were advised to…
Nordic by Nature: SAS CEO Rickard Gustafson, racing to keep costs falling faster than revenues, speaks with AW
SAS hopes to please stakeholders with an array of ongoing structural reforms when it reports its February-to-April quarterly results this week. The airline—its post-9/11 history a relentless race between falling…
What Really Keeps Them Up at Night: Domestic weakness has caught U.S. airlines by surprise. But it’s not their biggest concern
Yes, worries are mounting about U.S. airlines losing their domestic capacity discipline. Delta and United even raised fears last week of economic weakness denting domestic demand. But let’s not forget:…
The Other Gulf Carriers: The high-flying Big Three get the headlines. But Gulf LCCs are making a splash of their own
They’re growing at warp speed. They’re voraciously buying planes. They’re located at the geographic center of the world. And they’re irritating established legacy airlines everywhere with their allegedly unfair government…
