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Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 37: Southwest and Alaska Outperform

Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 37: Southwest and Alaska Outperform

FromAirline Weekly Lounge


Airline Weekly Lounge Episode 37: Southwest and Alaska Outperform

FromAirline Weekly Lounge

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Apr 26, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

While Delta, American and United have all seen both revenues and costs dropping, Southwest and Alaska just experienced the opposite in the first quarter. In fact, Southwest and Alaska rode a wave of rising revenues (say that three times fast) and rising costs to fantastic profits—and they did it in the normally sluggish Q1, no less. Speaking of American, how serious is the airline’s declining revenue, which is getting dinged by Southwest in Dallas and bruised by the economy in Brazil?

Meanwhile, United is getting roughed up in Asia and simply hammered in Houston. Continuing to underperform its peers, United is making a change to its board. Will it help? And we raise a mai tai to Hawaiian Airlines, which posted a breezy Q1 in its own right.
Released:
Apr 26, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The editors of Skift Airline Weekly discuss the most interesting developments within the commercial airline industry. In keeping with Skift Airline Weekly’s style, conversation generally centers on one question: How do you make money in this industry?