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Airline Weekly Lounge — 443 episodes
Qatar Airways: Skift Global Forum Preview
Skift Global Forum 2026: Aviation Preview
Turkish Airlines' Turbulent Quarter
Swiss Shines But Lufthansa Lags
Airshow Highs and Earnings Season Realities
Why 2026 Is Aviation's Most Volatile Year Since COVID
How Many Planes Does the World Need?
Can a "New Class of BNPL" Become a Strategic Loyalty Play?
How Much is EasyJet Worth?
Does SAS Really Need 40 A330neos?
Is Las Vegas Out of Luck?
What's the Most Profitable Airline in the World?
The IATA AGM Debrief
Inside the Minds of America's Airline CEOs
EasyJet's Tricky Quarter and Atlanta's Crown
The Airline Europe Wrote Off — and Shouldn't Have
The Profit Gap Splitting U.S. Airlines
Spirit Airlines: The Post-Mortem
What's Going Wrong at JetBlue?
Will Washington Save Spirit Airlines?
Could United Really Merge with American Airlines?
Delta Confronts the Oil Price Crisis
Who Will Lead IATA Next?
An Aviation Crisis – with a Twist
Making Sense of the Fuel Price Crisis
Jet Fuel Shock & Shutdown TSA Lines: Airlines Brace for a Volatile Spring
A Gulf Airline Crisis Like No Other
Is Singapore Airlines Still A Profit Superstar?
American Airlines Is Falling Behind. Here’s Why
Icelandair: Moving in the Right Direction?
Japan Airlines vs. ANA: Who's On Top?
U.S. Earnings Season: Half-Time Report
New from Skift: Executive Conversations Shaping the Travel Industry
Delta vs United: Premium Boom, Economy Squeeze
Allegiant–Sun Country Merger: What’s Really at Stake?
Inside the Ethiopian Airlines Playbook
The David Neeleman Interview
The Joanna Geraghty Interview
Is Breeze in a Squeeze?
In Conversation with DFW Airport CEO, Chris McLaughlin
America's Airport All-Stars
Inside Qantas' Project Sunrise
Airlines in 2026: Flying into Trouble?
Even Emirates Can't Rest on its Laurels
What Makes Ryanair So Darn Profitable?
Is the Government Shutdown Affecting Air Travel?
What's Driving United's Domestic Headwinds?
Virgin Atlantic Gets a New CEO
The Megatrends Shaping Q3 Earnings Season
Hong Kong Stages Global Comeback
U.S. and International Airlines at a Strategic Crossroads
Airline Leaders Descend on Washington D.C.
What’s Happening at WestJet?
Profits A'Plenty for Australian Airlines
Can Spirit Airlines Survive?
What are the World’s Busiest Airports?
What is America's Most Profitable Airline?
What is Air France-KLM's Weakest Link?
American, Alaska, Southwest: Who Came Out on Top?
United Airlines and Ryanair in an Age of Uncertainty
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi: What Went Wrong?
Who Wants to Join an Airline Alliance?
The 2025 Half-Time Airline Report
Paris Air Show 2025: Highs and Lows
The Resurgence of Virgin Australia
Grounded Ambitions: Can Spirit and Wizz Soar Again?
Making Sense of the JetBlue and United Partnership
IATA's Willie Walsh Talks Tariffs, Air Traffic Control and Oil Prices
Ryanair's Rosy Summer Ahead
Can Singapore Airlines Do It Again?
Our Round-the-World Airline Adventure
U.S. Airlines’ Earnings Season Recap: What the Future Holds
Korean Air's Financial Flight Path
Delta's Q1 Earnings: Our Key Takeaways
Making Sense of Market Turmoil
Riyadh Air CEO on Building an Airline from Scratch
The Dynamic Growth of Air India and Indigo Airlines
The Kings of the Caribbean
The World's Most Profitable Airlines
The Day Southwest Airlines Changed Forever
British Airways is a Profit Machine
Is India the World's Hottest Airline Market?
Is Southwest Airlines Losing its Magic?
Breaking Down Japan Airlines and British Airways
What a Frontier-Spirit Merger Means for Air Travel
Breeze Airways' Big Break: A ULCC Finally Profits
Setting the Scene for a Brazilian Airline Mega-Merger
Why Egypt Is an Airline Market Worth Watching
The U.S. Airlines Growing and Shrinking in 2025
What Does 2025 Mean for the Airline Industry?
The Biggest Airline Trends of 2024 (Part Two)
The Biggest Airline Trends of 2024 (Part One)
Airline Junk Fees Under Scrutiny
DFW Airport CEO on New Terminals, New Airlines, and Finding Solutions to New Problems
AirAsia CEO on Trump, Tragedies and Transformation
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom on Trump, Boeing, and New Routes
Spirit Airlines Bankruptcy: What Comes Next?
IATA's Willie Walsh on Low-Cost Carriers, Sustainability and More Airline Challenges
Where to Find the CEOs of Southwest, American Air, and More Next Week
LATAM Airlines: Past, Present, and Future
United Closes the Gap on Delta
Setting the Scene for Earnings Season
Southwest and its New Plan
El Al Comes Out on Top
Skift Global Forum: The Airline Storylines
Southwest's Evolving Network
Qantas in Focus
Busiest Global Airports: The Q4 2024 Preview
Our Air Canada Check-In
Jet2's Secret Sauce
The Q2 2024 Earnings Scoreboard
Former American Airlines Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja on Aviation's Current Inflection Point
How Was Q2 for JetBlue?
The Ben Smith Interview
Hong Kong's Slow Climb
Qantas: From Perth to Paris
Air France's Olympic Headache
More Headwinds for Southwest Airlines
Why is Korean Air so Profitable?
What's Going on at Southwest Airlines?
Captain Theresa Claiborne Interview
American Airlines and Southeast Asia
Ryanair Earnings and U.S. Summer Trends
Emirates Earnings and Booming Brazil
Spirit Airlines and Japan
Euro-Things
JetBlue and Volaris
United's Fascinating First Quarter
Why Delta's Flying High
Low-Cost, Long-Haul Challenges
The Michael O'Leary Interview
High Flyers and Terminal Declines
The Lufthansa Problem
American Airlines Fights Back
IAG Earnings in the Spotlight
Megatrends 2024: Supply Chains and Climate Change
A Surprise Thai Turnaround
Plotting A New Frontier
The Rising Fortunes of Ryanair
What do United Airlines and easyJet Have in Common?
Judge to JetBlue: No Merger for You
What’s the Latest with Boeing’s 737 Max?
Air France-KLM's Outlook
U.S. Airlines See Strong December Quarter Demand
The Alaska-Hawaiian Merger: Pros and Cons
An All British Affair
Steven Udvar-Hazy at the Skift Aviation Forum
Boeing’s Big Week in Dubai
Ryanair and Singapore Airlines Watch the Competition
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom
Hawaiian and Volaris's Struggles
The U.S. Air Travel Recovery Flatlines
Delta's Profit Machine
Air France-KLM Moves on SAS
Breeze Founder and CEO David Neeleman
What Are Mexican Airlines to Do?
What's Happening at Spirit and Frontier?
Fuel Costs Take a Bite Out of Airline Outlook
What Do Airlines Face This Autumn?
The World's Most Profitable Airlines
A Transatlantic Travel Boom
Falling Airline Yields Do Not Mean Weak Demand
American and United's Strong Second Quarters
Norse Atlantic’s Strategy Comes Into Focus
Norwegian Air's Wise Wideroe Move
Diversifying Delta's Business
India's Airlines Go Shopping in Paris
The Brains Behind Air Canada's Network
Takeaways From the IATA Annual Meeting
Summer Air Travel Record Forecast
The Return of Icelandair
Air Canada Off to a Good Start
Ryanair Makes Up With Boeing
Alan Joyce's Legacy at Qantas
JetBlue and New York's Problems
United and Alaska Airlines Navigate Uncertainty
First Quarter U.S. Airline Earnings Preview
Let's Hear It For Delta's Atlanta Airport Powerhouse
Lufthansa Nears ITA Airways Deal
The Different Ways Aviation Is Booming in India and Saudi Arabia
What U.S. Airline Leaders Say About the Next Phase of Recovery
JetBlue-Spirit Merger Goes to Court
How the Ukraine War Changed Aviation
Singapore and Copa Wow With Strong Results
Spirit Airlines' Earnings Woes
So Long to the Boeing 747: Mini Episode
The Thick of Fourth Quarter Airline Earnings
United Comes Out Swinging
Airlines Enter Earnings Season
Southwest's Holiday Debacle
The Airline Stories We'll Be Following in 2023
United and Delta Have Big Ambitions
Delta Air Lines Pilots' New Benchmark
EasyJet's Unique Comeback Tale
The Future of Aircraft Leasing With Steven Udvar-Hazy
A Thanksgiving Week of Travel
Turkish Airlines Blowout
Europe's Airline Merger Mania
Norwegian Air's Turnaround
Latin American Airline Caution
Is Travel Countercyclical?
The World’s All-Star Airports
American Airlines’ Blended Travel Boom
Orlando Airport’s Rebound
Indian Aviation’s Moment
China's Red Ink
Hawaiian Airline's Recovery
The London Airport Crunch
Lufthansa, ITA and European Airline Consolidation
Southwest's Airports Czar
Southwest Airline’s Secret Weapon
Boeing's 41,000 Aircraft Forecast
Travel's Like a T.J. Maxx
SAS Airline's Long Road to Bankruptcy
The Courtship of Spirit Airlines
IATA Sees Pent-Up Profits
Wizzing Past the Competition
Delta's Red-Hot Summer
IndiGo Goes and Goes!
The South American Spider Web
EWho's to Blame for the Pilot Shortage?
Just What's Happening in Newark?
The Thick of Airline Earnings
Bellwether Delta
A Tale of Two Quarters
JetBlue Wants Spirit
What’s Delta Planning at LAX?
What Oil Crisis?
What Happens to Russia’s Leased Fleet?
How Will Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Change Airlines and Aerospace?
What Will Business Travel Look Like This Year?
The ULCC Shakeup
Where Will Ryanair Put Its ’Gamechangers?’
Cathay Pacific Struggles
All the Hullaballoo Over 5G
Will Boeing Become The Junior Partner in The Duopoly?
Cancellations Mar Airlines’ Holidays
American’s New CEO
From Alpha to Omicron
Bonus Episode: American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and Next-Gen Business Travel
Bonus Episode: Winning Customers On Quality With United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby
Past The Inflection Point?
Brazil‘s Airlines Surge
European Competition Heats Up
JetBlue‘s Hopes, Boeing‘s Struggles
The Recovery Will Start When?
Delta‘s Premium Leisure Bet
It‘s Anyone‘s Guess When Business Travel Returns
The Pandemic Exacerbated Labor Issues at U.S. Regionals
Live From the Skift Global Forum
Boeing‘s Forecast Shows Why This Crisis Is Unlike Others
Philippine Airlines‘ Bankruptcy Was a Long Time Coming
Will South African Make a Comeback?
JetBlue Makes The Water Jump to London
Who's Next on the Cargo Bandwagon?
Latin American Carriers Binge on Aircraft Orders
Will Business Travel Ever Be the Same?
Too Much U.S. Optimism?
Porter's Big Order
Behind the Veil of United's New Aircraft Order
The Boeing Max-10 Takes Flight
Boeing and Airbus End Their Trade Spat – For Now
Southwest to the Max
European Airlines Fear Another Lost Summer
JetBlue's Founder Breezes Into the Skies Again
Zoom Deals Vs. Real Deals
Is It Time to Book That European Vacation?
Who's Right: Kirby or Kelly?
Is Your Airline a Pollyanna or Cassandra?
Ottawa Lends a Hand to Air Canada
Is There That Much Pent-Up Demand?
Delta's Bad Week in the News
Will It Be a Cruel, Cruel Summer?
Is the Airline Industry's Bullishness Misplaced?
Frontier's IPO: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
Cargo and Maxes
The Opportunities Norwegian Air Is Leaving Behind
United Channels 'The Jetsons' With Electric Air Taxis
Now Is When Sun Country Plans IPO?
Will 2021 Be Any Better?
Why the A220 Works Now
The Data That Can Help Airlines Recover Faster
How an Airport Adapts to a Pandemic
It's Not Just Airlines
Connecting the Through Lines
Airlines' Covid Innovations
The Case for More Payroll Support
What Next for the MAX?
Hotels, Airlines and the Pandemic
Pandemic Passenger Experience
The Problem for Singapore Airlines
Change Fees, Vaccines, Florida and More Consumer Airline News
The Post-Pandemic Future of Airlines
Latin America's Aviation Infrastructure Problem
Europe’s Uncertain Recovery
Who’s Traveling Across the Atlantic?
Can Technology Make Travel Safer?
The Passenger Experience in the Time of a Pandemic
Las Vegas Airport's Coronavirus Lessons
The Giant Shifts in Aircraft Manufacturing
The Bankruptcy of Latam
To Mask or Not to Mask?
How Airports Need to Adapt for a Public Health Crisis
Enormous Challenges and Possible Opportunities
How Much Money Are Airlines Losing Now?
The Threat to Virgin Australia
How Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Different From 9/11 for Airlines?
La Compagnie President -- All-Business-Class Can Work
Qatar's Bet on Air Italy Fails
The Sabre-Farelogix Antitrust Lawsuit
French Bee President Marc Rochet
Do Secondary Airports in L.A. and San Francisco Work?
Whither Willie Walsh?
Looking Into Our Crystal Ball
The Year in Review
Is The 'Smart Airport' Really a Thing?
Why Volaris is Taking the Bus
What's the Deal With Air India?
Much Ado About Europe
How Does IAG Benefit From Acquiring Air Europa?
Interview: Norwegian Executive on SFO Launch and Rebound From Tough Year
What Happened to Thomas Cook?
Interview: Airlines for America's Chief Economist
Airline Execs at Skift Global Forum
Interview: Southwest's Andrew Watterson
Interview: Las Vegas' Rosemary Vassiliadis
Interview: Hawaiian Airlines CEO Peter Ingram
Interview: AirBaltic CEO Martin Gauss
Interview: Flybe CEO at IATA General Meeting
Interview: Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong
Interview: United President Scott Kirby
Interview: Air Asia Deputy CEO
Interview: British Airways CEO Alex Cruz
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 112: Prediction Affliction
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 111: Deal. No Deal. Deal?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 110: A Mess in Mexico
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 109: Happy at Heathrow
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 108: Is American Airlines OK?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 107: Amazing Race
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 106: Not So Sunny at Sun Country
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 105: Satisfaction in Sydney
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 104: Better, But Not Good
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 103: Canadian Conundrum
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 102: U.S. Airlines Sing the Blues
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 101: Delta Holds Up Well
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 100: Frontier's Wild Ride
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 99: Say it Ain’t so, Mexico!
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 98: Ryanair’s Resilience
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 97: Canadian Carriers Trading Places?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 96: Profit Preservation for U.S. Carriers
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 95: Cost Creep at Delta
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 94: Southern Discomfort
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 93: Separation Anxiety
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 92: Kiwis and Kangaroos
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 91: The Best Performers of 2017?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 90: Success in the U.S.
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 89: Delta’s Clear Skies
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 88: SAS Spells Success
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 87: Jet Airways Troubled No More?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 86: An Easy Bet on Low-Cost Carriers
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 85: High-Flyin’ Ryan
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 84: Sound the Alarm for U.S. Airline Earnings?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 83: Solid Start to Earnings Season
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 82: Whoa Mexico
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 81: Jet Airway’s Rise
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 80: Dismay at Cathay Pacific
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 79: Turkish Airlines' Turnaround
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 78: The United Weigh
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 77: Another Win for Delta
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 76: Six Months in 30 Minutes
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 75: Qatar Airways' Lessons
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 74: Fueling Success
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 73: Southern Comfort
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 72: Good Is Good Enough
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 71: Delta Keeps Dealing
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 70: Virgin Sacrificed
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 69: Lackluster Lufthansa
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 68: Turkey’s Tough Times
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 67: IAG Outperforms
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 66: Searching for Positives
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 65: LCCs' Strong Finish
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 64: Rising Sun
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 63: All Smiles at American
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 62: United on Top
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 61: Worse, But Still Good
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 60: Around and Around
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 59: Kicking Off 2017
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 58: Lufthansa's Ambitions
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 57: South African Airways Is Troubled
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 56: Frontier Airlines CEO Interview
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 55: Canadian Continuity
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 54: Qantas' Down Under Wonder
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 53: Korean Competitive Crunch
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 52: Don't Dismiss Swiss Airlines
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 51: Air France Is Missing Out
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 50: Have U.S. Airlines Peaked?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 49: Delta Does it Again
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 48: Azul’s Ambitions
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 47: Turkish Troubles
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 46: Left Behind by Brexit?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 45: Six Degrees of Singapore Airlines
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 44: Struggling SAS
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 43: United Tries to Put You to Sleep
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 42: Ryanair's Runaway Success
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 41: Korean Divergence
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 40: Emirates Strikes Back
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 39: Eurowing and a Prayer
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 38: Delta CEO Interview
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 37: Southwest and Alaska Outperform
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 36: Delta Feels No Pain
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 35: Chinese Airlines Show Stress
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 34: Will Virgin and Alaska Be Happy Together?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 33: Is Virgin Merging With Alaska?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 32: Post-Brussels Attack Roundup
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 31: Turkish Blend
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 30: Qantas' Boomerang Effect
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 29: IAG Has all the Right Moves
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 28: The French Correction
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 27: Profits Cool in Scandinavia
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 26: Singapore's Swing
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 25: JetBlue Breaks Out
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 24: Rapidly Receding Revenues
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 23: Relatively Resilient Revenues
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 22: Fast and Furious in India
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 21: Ultra Low-Cost Competition
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 20: Mexico's Low-Cost Renaissance
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 19: American Air CEO Interview
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 18: Korean Air's Success Amid the Struggle
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 17: EasyJet Does It
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 16: Spirit Air CEO Interview
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 14: IAG Is A-OK
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 13: Great American
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 12: Delta's Payday
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 11: Lufthansa's Competition Grows
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 10: Southwest’s Golden Years
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 9: A New Frontier
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 8: Africa's Biggest Airline?
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 7: Checkmate for United? Not Quite
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 5: Cold Comfort in Canada
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 4: The Wild, Wild Eastern Market
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 3: The European Earnings Picture Is Complicated
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 2: Postcards from the Hedge
Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 1: Can It Get Any Better?