Now that airlines have consolidated into a few key carriers, and now that they get to dictate prices, fees and whatever other conditions they want, airlines are major profit centers.
These are the top analyst upgrades and downgrades covered by 24/7 Wall St. on Tuesday, September 9, 2014.
With Frontier Airlines' temporary $14.99 fares, the temptation to harm margins has returned to the business.
The Boeing 737 MAX family of planes is not scheduled for delivery to customers until 2017 but Ryanair reportedly is prepared to place an order for 100.
Courtesy Boeing Co.When the monthly report on durable goods orders came out on Tuesday, virtually everyone was surprised at the 22.6% improvement. However, when transportation is backed out of the equation, orders…
Wikimedia Commons (Stuart Seeger)According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report, Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) posted the worst record among major airlines for on-time arrivals in June at 66.8%.…
United Continental Holdings Inc.U.S. airlines are among the lowest-rated industries in the country when it comes to customer satisfaction. According a survey completed earlier this year by the American Customer Satisfaction Index…
ThinkstockThe big market sell-off got some extra additional selling as some insiders decided it was time to lighten up on their holdings of their own companies. One interesting note from this week,…
ThinkstockThe airline passenger is the perfect captive audience. If you want to travel somewhere, and the airline that serves you and your area has a multitude of extra costs, like charging for…
ThinkstockA Federal Aviation Administration flight ban of U.S. air carriers into Tel Aviv, Israel, may seem as though it is important geopolitical news, but the move may have a very limited impact…
United Continental Holdings Inc.If it weren’t for the various ancillary revenues that airlines have cobbled together over the past several years, the industry would likely be in much worse shape. In 2007,…
United Continental offered a lift to airline stocks on Thursday after announcing late Wednesday that its passenger revenue per available seat mile increased more than expected.
The Boeing Co.The Tea Party wing of the Republican party has declared that it will not support the reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank when the bank’s charter comes up for…
courtesy of Delta Air LinesDelta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) said on Monday that it is cutting service to Venezuela from one flight per day between Atlanta and Caracas to one flight per…
Oppenheimer is out with its favorite ideas for stocks to buy. The most interesting part of the report is that there are three buy ideas from Oppenheimer's favorite stock sectors: Facebook, Hess…
