News Aeroflot flight 1492 from Moscow to Murmansk crashed last week and burst into flames. While it appears the cause of this crash may be a lightning strike that reverted the fly by wire system to direct mode, causing pilot…
The US is concerned about Air Italy and its 49% shareholder, Qatar Airways. It is thought that this stake allows Qatar to increase its access to the US market. US airlines don’t like competing with state-funded airlines. There are many…
Of Europe’s three big airline groups, International Airlines Group (IAG) has been the only one to record a profit for Q1. On May 10, IAG announced a profit of EUR 135mln, down 60.3 percent on last year’s EUR 340mln. The…
Emirates recorded its weakest year in 2018-19 in eight years, when announcing a Group profit of AED 2.316bln on May 9. This is -44 percent down on the previous year and almost at the same level as in 2011-12 (AED…
While China and India are the big markets to watch, it is the US market that still gets a lot of attention. To illustrate this we created a data model using the T-100 Segment All Carriers dataset. The model is…
Air France-KLM will carefully grow capacity this year after last Winter’s additional capacity hurt unit revenues in Q1. The Franco-Dutch airline group plans to add capacity by on average 2-3 percent, slowing down growth on routes to the Middle East,…