Airline CEOs met in Rio de Janeiro at IATA, the International Air Transport Association's annual meeting.

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Southwest Airlines began in 1971 as a regional commuter airline with just a handful of destinations in ...

Turkish Airlines flies to more countries than any other carrier and continues to look out for new markets and aircraft. Ahmet Bolat, who became chairman of the Turkish Airlines board at the beginning ...

When Xie Haoming joined Hainan Airlines as an engineer in 1995, the carrier had just a handful of Boeing 737 Classics, and the now-formidable HNA Group had yet to be born. It was hard to bet on Hainan ...

Panama's Copa Airlines is not well-known in most of North America, but it's among the most profitable airlines in the Americas. Its secret? Like Southwest Airlines, it keeps its model simple. To ...

With the reach of a Gulf carrier and the connections of a European carrier, Turkish Airlines knows where it stands and looks forward to Istanbul New Airport opening in 2017 to help it grow even faster ...

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Former American Airlines CEO Robert Crandall pioneered the development of airline loyalty programs, yield-management concepts and computer reservations systems during his tenure in the industry. The ...