Positive results from United and Delta, Jet2 focus on Bournemouth, Wizz Air rethink current aircraft orders,and what are Delta up to?

It’s the busiest week of the year for scheduled airline services, with Friday, 1st August, the busiest day with some 18.5 million seats and 116,000 flights. Fingers crossed for no bad weather, operational sickness, IT failures and French ATC behaving themselves!

Increasing confidence from United Airlines and Delta Air Lines on their year-end results, while American Airlines can’t decide if it’s going to be good or bad, who’s right and who’s wrong? This week, it’s the European legacy carriers with a mixed bag of results likely, and remember, Easter 2025 was in Q2 this year...

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays get ahead of the game in dropping some Summer 2026 services from #Bournemouth. Has the #airline and holiday group stretched as far south and west as they can, or is this just a pause for thought moment?

First, the closure of the Abu Dhabi operation, and now talk of adjusting outstanding aircraft orders. Is Wizz Air reinventing itself and focusing back on its core markets? Is there a lesson for others in stretching too far away from a core business model, and will shareholders be happy with the adjustments?

Having researched some data this weekend, we were surprised to see Delta Air Lines increase its capacity share in Austin to nearly 20% this year from 12% in 2019, including two Mexican leisure markets. Are “focus markets” once again becoming fashionable in the US?