Airline Weekly Lounge

United is still trailing its peers, but can it catch up? That’s the question we weigh first in this episode. In the seco... Read more

The airline is on such a roll that not even a grouchy demagogue can stop Delta. The Atlanta-based carrier posted a bette... Read more

With a new year underway, we’re thinking about what will happen in 2019—always a dicey proposition. In this episode, we ... Read more

The UK government this week engages in another set of inquiries on why Thomas Cook went bankrupt, which is the perfect t... Read more

Revenues for U.S. carriers remained terrifically healthy in the first quarter, and everybody made money. But rising labo... Read more

Will there be a deal or won't there? The Indian government now says it wants to sell 100% of the state-owned carrier, bu... Read more

A single year can result in dramatic change within the airline industry, so an entire decade could see it completely tra... Read more

United Airlines President Scott Kirby issued a warning to potential new-entrant low-cost-carriers, including JetBlue fou... Read more

Back in the aughts, Airlines for America's Chief Economist John Heimlich often showed a slide with an alarming statistic... Read more

Skift Europe Editor Patrick Whyte joined Skift Airline Weekly Editor Madhu Unnikrishnan to share his insights on the lat... Read more

Despite being dinged by rising costs, Delta opened the third-quarter earnings season with its customary show of strength... Read more

Numbers were put to the misery South African Airways has been experiencing when, last month, the airline finally reporte... Read more

European low-cost carrier easyJet isn’t doing as well as competing LCCs Ryanair and Wizz Air. But make no mistake: easyJ... Read more

Rising costs aren’t keeping Delta down. Delta overcame a 33% year-over-year increase in fuel costs to produce more than ... Read more

So far all U.S. carriers have reported shrinking year-over-year profits in the second quarter. But nobody’s margin decli... Read more

Frontier Airlines has had one of the most topsy-turvy histories of any airline, and its first-quarter earnings report wa... Read more

The Skift Airline Weekly Lounge returns with an exclusive interview with British Airways CEO Alex Cruz. Since taking ove... Read more

Delta’s 2017 profits were down slightly from the glory days of 2015 and 2016. But make no mistake: This airline is perfo... Read more

In this episode of the Skift Airline Weekly Lounge podcast, Skift Travel Senior Aviation Business Editor Brian Sumers an... Read more

After pummeling each other for years, Icelandair and Wow Air agreed to a truce in the form of a merger. But the merger f... Read more