Air Transport World

The air transport industry is growing and doing well, but the business environment feels slightly cooler.

La Réunion-based Air Austral and Air Madagascar have signed an MOU with SkyTeam member Kenya Airways to lay the foundation for a new partnership and boost their presence in Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Airbus has launched an ab initio pilot training program as the airline industry faces the prospect of a growing deficit of trained flight deck personnel in coming years.

South African regional carrier SA Express has received the go-ahead to restart services, nine weeks after the country’s civil aviation regulator grounded the airline.

Aeromexico is leveraging network discipline and new ancillary revenue generation to offset rising fuel costs, domestic inflation, a weakening peso and overcapacity in some key markets,

JetBlue pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), have ratified a four-year contract, the New York-based LCC confirmed.

SkyWest Inc., continuing to benefit from its fleet transition, posted net income of $76 million in the second quarter, up 34% from net income of $50.5 million in the 2Q 2017.

World's airlines ranked by operating revenue, operating profit, net profit.

Ranked by passengers, revenue passenger kilometers and freight ton kilometers.

Leasing companies ranked by size and financials.

2018 World Airline Report - Aircraft fleet and on order

Five best performing in net profit, operating revenue, passengers carried, revenue per kilometer

Ranked by passengers and aircraft movements.

Revenue, expenses, profit/loss and year-over-year comparisons.

Ranked by passengers and movements

Rankings based on net profit, net loss.

Passenger counts, revenue passenger kilometers, load factor and freight ton kilometers with year-over-year comparisons.

A possible joint venture between China Southern Airlines and International Airlines Group’s (IAG) British Airways (BA) could create more opportunities, especially at the new Beijing airport, where China Southern has a strong position, IAG CEO Willie Walsh told ATW.

Fort Lauderdale-based ultra-LCC Spirit Airlines returned to profitability in the second quarter of 2018, posting an $11.3 million net profit on top of a 21.6% rise in revenue.

Alaska Air Group—parent of Alaska Airlines, Virgin America and Horizon Air—reported a 2018 second-quarter net income of $193 million, down 35% compared to net income of $293 million in the 2017 2Q. Revenue for the quarter was up 3% to $2.2 billion.

Southwest Airlines posted a second-quarter net profit of $733 million, down 1.3% from net income of $743 million the 2017 June quarter, as fuel hedging insulated the carrier from the much larger year-over-year (YOY) profit drops being reported by rival major US carriers.

People-July 26, 2018

Nepal Airlines Corp. (NAC) took delivery of a second Airbus A330-200 July 26, from a direct order placed with Airbus from Portuguese wet-lease specialist Hi Fly.

Airbus’ commercial aircraft segment generated €18.2 billion ($21.2 billion) in revenue over the first half of 2018, up 1.7% from €17.9 billion in 1H 2017; EBIT came to €773 million for the first six months of 2018, more than doubling the segment’s €381 million EBIT during the same period last year.

If the extent to which the commercial aircraft supply landscape has changed was not fully apparent, the then-and-now environment became crystal clear at the Farnborough Air Show.