American Airlines is sending two contradictory signals this month. On one side: a voluntary unpaid leave program offering 1,205 flight attendants — about 4% of the cabin crew workforce — a paid-nothing September, after fuel costs forced six domestic route…
Airbus’s July O&D numbers are in, and the gap over 2025 keeps widening. Orders: 204 gross, but 66 cancellations brought net to 138. The headline commitment was SMBC Aviation Capital’s 100-jet single-aisle order (35 A320neo / 65 A321neo), followed by…
Airports don’t build buffers—airlines do. When we look at US airline schedule padding, we aren’t looking at a metric designed or controlled by airport operators. Instead, we are looking at an airline’s reaction to real-world friction. Schedule padding is essentially a…
Boeing’s 777X program has run into a new customer problem. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr confirmed the airline is preparing to reject some of the early-built 777-9 aircraft allocated to it, following Emirates, which already refused the first 10 777-9s built for…
Apollo Global Management won easyJet. Castlelake withdrew from the bidding on August 6, without giving a specific reason, clearing the way for Apollo’s £5.7 billion (£7.15-a-share) cash offer — unanimously recommended by easyJet’s board, an 81% premium to where the…
The FAA certified the 737 MAX 7 on August 3. Now the question is when Southwest gets its first one. The answer is early 2027 (sources point to the first half of the year, with commercial service for Southwest Airlines…