American Airlines improved its quarter-by-quarter results by posting a $169 million net profit for Q3, up from $19 million in the second quarter . However, excluding special items, the net loss was $641 million, it reported on October 21. American’s…
With growing chatter about fuel burn and rising fuel prices, we kept digging in the data and came up with some interesting metrics for your consideration. The greener the number in the table the better. Our metric is seat miles…
Earlier this week, the Chilean ultra-low-cost carrier JetSMART received its 19th aircraft, an Airbus A320neo. This plane represents one step further on the big growth plans by the South American airline. JetSMART plans According to Airbus Orders & Deliveries database,…
Despite the recent softening of traffic volumes, the industry is, overall recovering. As always, we have data to illustrate this. The chart above is through June and that is a quarter ago – but US DoT runs that late. The…
To bring you more aviation news, Airinsight introduces News in Brief. During September, we compile a rolling story by date with news that is sometimes too small for a deep analysis but still interesting enough not to be missed. 28…