While the EUR -7.0 billion net loss of Air France-KLM has come as a shock, International Airlines Group (IAG) hasn’t fared much better in 2020. On February 26, it reported an almost identical loss after tax of EUR -6.923 billion compared…
Friday, May 15. In recent days, airlines have been announcing a gradual return to flying again. The picture is diffuse, with some offering limited services from the second half of May and others extending their suspensions. So we update our…
International Airlines Group (IAG) posted a EUR -1.860 billion net loss for Q1, it announced on May 7. Excluding special items, this was EUR -535 million. IAG expects that a long recovery to pre-Covid levels will take until at least…
British Airways could slash up to 12.000 jobs as it has started a restructuring and redundancy program in response to the Covid-19 crisis, parent company International Airlines Group (IAG) confirmed on April 28. The restructuring will also affect the Group’s…
International Airlines Group (IAG) has reported ‘good results’ for 2019 despite disruptions and higher fuel costs. Still, they were worse compared to 2018. IAG recorded an operating profit before exceptional items of EUR 3.285 billion, down -200 million from the…
Ryanair regained its leading position as Europe’s biggest airline in passenger numbers: the Irish low-cost flew 152.4 million pax in 2019, including LaudaMotion. This makes her bigger than Lufthansa again, who secured pole position in 2018. Now that most airline…