Air France will cut its short-haul domestic capacity by 15 percent over the next two years, citing competition from other airlines and France’s growing high-speed railway network as the main reasons. The decision had been anticipated for some time but…
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…