GLG News by Airline Consultants: GLG Leaders and Scholars (US)

As fuel prices fall, what happens with all those pricey hedges at well over $100/barrel? Can this industry get anything right?  Maybe circumstances are beyond any human comprehension.

Air taxi provider DayJet is now sidelined while VLJ manufacturer Eclipse remains on life support.  It appears that a successful wide-scale air taxi business model has yet to be developed.  This has implications for other start-up air taxi operations and the OEMs who are to supply the equi...

The damage is immense. The downstream impacts have not yet hit with full force. But a global tsunami has started.

IATA rightly assigns much of its members' travails to the oil spike. How quickly we forget. Before the oil spike we had a situation where many airlines were struggling - especially in the US - with rising labor demands. The truth is that the industry had a brief moment of profitability. There were exceptions...

The story speaks of a few planes at O'Hare, but its worse than that. This was not an isolated event.

This "merger" is not of equals but is necessary for both airlines.

Airbus' employees are from across Europe and now stretches as far as China.  The cultures these people come from cannot be ignored or papered over.

Putin started to consolidate Russia's aerospace firms some years back.  He also insisted in interfering with the fleet decisions at Aeroflot. Most people were of the opinion that this was typical of Russia's political leadership - was he right to do it?

There are three things that could cause what one sees in the pictures - looking at the photos it's clear metal was ripped outward -- by bomb or fatigue or fairing failure/pulled the metal -- it's got to be one of those three. Not a splendid choice is it?

Just when we all thought the A380 program is getting sorted out, along comes this story. And right in the middle of the Farnborough show - ouch!