Articles tagged “low-cost carriers”

What's not to love about Saul Bass? Possibly when lesser designers try to remix his work for the future and come out with a middling result.

You really can’t be an eagle in crow’s feathers. They don’t look very good and can fall off in-flight.

Virgin America needs to attract more business travelers if it is to fill those first class and Main Cabin Select seats to maintain a passenger revenue advantage over low cost carriers.

We wonder where they're keeping the people who've been running Ryanair all these years.

The widebody jets make sense, but Southwest has been able to make lots of cents from flying one plane exclusively across its entire fleet.

IATA may be right that Europe poses special market challenges to airlines, but the ongoing success of LCCs in the market proves that IATA members may need to look inwards for the answers to their woes. And much as Tyler might want it to, the infrastructure argument just doesn't hold water.

Norwegian won't be rid of its critics in year two either, but it may see an aviation landscape that rewards upstarts like itself, or maybe even legacy carriers adopting its techniques.

Passengers are happier when they have a good idea what they'll spend before they show up at the airport. SAS can charge a bit more, and still make people happy.

Kjos and Norwegian's backers are making a big bet that they can disrupt trans-Atlantic traffic. You need a bit of chutzpah to make that happen.

Norwegian is the canary in the coal mine of trans-Atlantic low-cost carriers. Can its financial success match its ambitions?