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

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!

The next round of dislocations finds the industry not yet recovered from the pervious mess called 9/11.  The people costs we saw last time will be much worse this time.

Its not easy being lucky in the airline business at present. Its not easy being in the business at all. But here is one very lucky man.

It has been apparent for some time that recently super rich oil based economies of the Gulf might be immune to the world's economic woes. Guess what? They are not, if your customer hurts then evetually you hurt too. Given that the Gulf's only real contribution to golbal economic activity comes from...

As airlines shrink they lose the most important feature they offer - choice. Invariably the airline with the fewest choices is the least selected. United is the latest to annouce severe cutbacks. Such a shrink bodes ill for the airline as it requires a strong domestic system to handle feed and distribution....

I know of no example of an airline that shrank itself into profitability. After all, this is a business that seeks economies of scale.

Whether we are in the midst of an oil bubble is not really the fundamental question.  The real problem goes back to the 1970's and the last big oil shock.

The merging of Delta Airlines and Northwest Airlines, along with other future mergers, will have implications for the transportation of freight as well as passengers. For the past fifteen years US legacy combination carriers have not been major players in the air freight industry, consolidation may...

Financial firms grew over the past decade as apparent disparate firms were cobbled together. The idea may have been to offset the risk - each part of the firm operating on a slightly different schedule of the economic cycle.