Articles tagged “Europe”

Norwegian Air has come back strong from the brink of death. After struggling before the pandemic and then restructuring during it, the discounter has rebounded quickly with an eye on…

The Covid pandemic was a like a meteor hitting the Earth for the world’s airline industry. For Finnair, it was like ten meteors hitting the planet. Now, the beleaguered Helsinki-based…

Icelandair will fly its largest schedule ever this summer, in response to what executives think could be a very strong peak travel season across the North Atlantic.

A goodbye to the Boeing 747, the Queen of the Skies. The planemaker delivered the last off the line of the iconic jumbo jet to Atlas Air on Tuesday.

Europe’s Ryanair delivered another exceptionally strong financial result during the October-to-December quarter, helped by flying with higher capacity than it did in 2019. Its operating margin reached 7 percent, topping…

It's a busy earnings week with American, Southwest, Alaska, and JetBlue all reporting. Edward Russell and Jay Shabat preview what they're listening for ahead of the airline calls on Thursday,…

Europe's second largest airline, EasyJet, pulled off what is becoming the norm in the pandemic recovery: revenues that exceed pre-crisis numbers on significantly fewer passengers.

A new breed of long-haul budget airlines is rapidly adding new routes between the U.S. and Europe for the upcoming summer. But even with recent additions, the segment remains a…

“This is the biggest growth opportunity I have seen for the last 20 years,” Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said Tuesday. The airline surpassed 2019 traffic levels in 2022, and predicts…

Worldwide passenger traffic in November reached 75 percent of its November 2019 level, according to new data from IATA, the airline industry’s international trade association. That’s traffic measured by revenue…