Full data from Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Asia-Pacific shows a decline in profitability for the first quarter of 2025, despite an improvement in operating revenue and passenger traffic.
Complete fist-quarter earnings reports from Airline Business’ benchmark North American airlines show the region’s carriers swinging to an operating profit year on year, while net losses narrowed.
The global airline industry fell short of its 2023 profitability performance in 2024, according to aggregate earnings from Airline Business’s benchmark carriers/groups, although its fortunes improved over the second half of the year.
Full-year 2024 data for Airline Business’ benchmark airlines/groups in Latin America shows carriers in the region exceeding the previous year’s operating profit but falling short of 2023’s net profit.
The global airline industry ended 2024 with a strong performance in terms of operating profit but saw its net result drop, largely accounted for by swingeing losses among the two Brazilian carriers included in the data as they grappled with local currency weakness.
Full fourth-quarter results from Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in the Latin America region show them recording lower profitability year on year in US dollar terms, as currency issues in particular weighed on the aggregate data.
Full-year 2024 data for Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Asia-Pacific shows the region’s carriers essentially matching 2023’s operating profit and falling slightly short at a net level, in a year that started and ended with improved quarterly results
Full-year 2024 data for Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Europe shows the region’s carriers falling short of 2023 profitability, albeit the gap was reduced as fortunes improved in the second half of the year and their results were significantly ahead of 2019 earnings.
Full fourth-quarter 2024 data from Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Asia-Pacific shows a strong year-end rebound in operating profit profitability after two consecutive quarters of decline.
Full-year 2024 data for Airline Business’ benchmark airlines in North America shows the region’s carriers falling short of 2023 and 2019 profitability, albeit the gap was reduced during the second six months of the year.
Full fourth-quarter 2024 data from Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Europe shows the region ending the year on a brighter note, following a first nine months in which profitability had been consistently lower year on year.