Airline News

Brexit is a fig leaf that can be used to cover up pretty much anything. Would the carrier be halting the service if it had been a runaway success?

These are the aviation trends we were talking about this week.

You might think investors would be most concerned with overall airline profits, which remain high. But they're not. Instead, they're fretting about unit revenues.

Airlines prefer not to take risks with most of their senior hires, which makes sense, because the industry is more complicated than most.

The European Union revolutionised the airline industry in Europe, helping to foster the boom in cheap flights by creating a single market and doing away with bilateral agreements. How the UK extricates itself from this will be just one area to keep an eye on in the coming negotiations.

Allegiant Air knows less about its most loyal customers than it would like. Its new co-branded credit card could help change that. But will anyone apply for it?

Munoz still has the goodwill of industry observers, but he's going to need to make an impact on consumer-friendly metrics like on-time arrivals as well as market-friendly ones like earnings to turn the goodwill into longer-term success.

The U.S. government has had nearly 15 years to figure out how to fund and staff the TSA. It's still failing.

Scott Kirby, known for his strong financial acumen, could be the savior United's investors have been seeking.

Delta is once more doubling down in its campaign to woo Seattle customers.