All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Transportation

A major industry supplier is back in trouble - and is an indicator of things to come. Accuride CEO John Murphy has resigned after 11 months at the helm. It shows how one plans for swings and also shows the importance of parts and service sales in smoothing them out.

qantas is in the difficult position of maintaining its current high yielding business and corporate market whilst developing a new low cost market, qantas is successfully developing a new low cost carrier in jetstar, qantas is in the unique position of being able to trial system improvements on the...

So people wonder what the impact will be when Ryanair starts allowing phone calls. For me this is not so far fetched.

About 600 Teamsters are on strike against Oak Harbor Freight, a major LTL carrier in the Pacific Northwest. Drivers, dock workers and back-office union members have been without a contract for 11 months. The increasingly militant clout of the Teamsters union is expected to increase in the coming months,...

High oil prices, a crisis on Wall Street and a weakening economy? It's hard to think of a greater nightmare scenario for U.S. airlines? But a closer look reveals some important reasons to be cautiously optimsitic. U.S. carriers won't make much money if any in 2008. But the second half might not be as...

There are clear signals that the business aviation sector has begun its cyclical decline. There are a multitude of factors which drive this market, with the availability and pricing of used aircraft one of them. While backlogs are currently fat, are they really large and solid enough to carry manufacturers...

In the light of it's (temporary) loss of the USAF Tanker Contract, It appears that EADS is facing a trend in erosion of support from the EU. Following the loss of USAF tanker deal early this year, this new development places the EADS (A400M) into yet another uncertain future for this...

 There are nearly 100 Teamsters union officials making $150,000 or more at a time when more than 2,000 trucking entities went out of business since the first of this year.   Teamsters for a Democratic Union, the dissident wing of the 1.4 million-member Teamsters, tracks and publicizes the...

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.

The Federal Government intervening in the investment world makes the monumental work done in New Orleans before and after Katrina look like small potatoes. Successful people and businesses focus on what they are good at. The devil is in the details on how it gets done, but government in action can be...