Kyunghee Park, Bloomberg
Struggling Hong Kong Airlines continues on its path to axe money-losing, long-haul flights and go back to flying in safer skies closer to home. This latest Auckland cut comes after it pulled out of Australia and Moscow and reduced the number of flights to Vancouver and San Francisco.
3 days ago
Brian Sumers, Skift
KLM CEO Pieter Elbers is one of the most respected airline managers in the world. But KLM is not an independent airline and ultimately he should be accountable to group CEO Ben Smith.
3 days ago
Brian Sumers, Skift
Southwest lags behind some of its competitors in credit card revenue. But it is working on fixing that.
3 days ago
Travelport + Skift
The speed at which airline distribution stakeholders are able to transform their distribution technologies so that they can directly impact their bottom line will be determined by their ability to effectively collaborate.
2 months ago
Brian Sumers, Skift
Aeromexico blamed its fourth quarter operating loss on one-off items. To a large extent that's true. But the airline still has some looming problems, which is probably why it won't grow at all this year.
3 days ago
Alan Levin, Bloomberg
The Trump Administration took a cavalier attitude during the shutdown. Many officials seemed to assume the aviation system wouldn't lose a step even though controllers and security screeners weren't receiving paychecks. They were wrong.
3 days ago
Kyunghee Park, Bloomberg
Some 120 cabin crew staff in Toronto could lose their jobs as Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific continues its program to be profitable again, which started in 2017. Hopefully, it's the last cut.
5 days ago
Irene García Pérez , Bloomberg
The UK's departure from the European Union still isn't sorted yet, which means companies like IAG are putting contingency plans in place.
5 days ago
Brian Sumers, Skift
Customers like low-cost airlines, but no carriers so far have perfected the model for long-haul flights. It’s not clear they ever will.
5 days ago
Grant Martin, Skift
There's much to expect from Oneworld in its 20th year of service, but partners joining with Connect status may be the most interesting development to watch for.
5 days ago
Chris Bryant, Bloomberg
Longtime Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary would receive more than $100 million in incentives if he gets the company's stock back to slightly higher than 2017 levels. That's nice work if you can get it, right?
6 days ago
Ania Nussbaum, Bloomberg
Air France-KLM doesn't function like a normal airline group, so any display of power from one side was always going to lead to retaliation. But who's going to blink first?
6 days ago