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A white multi-storey airport building with "Daniel K. Inouye International Airport" in black letters and "Aloha" in pink script, topped by a glass-walled control cab with antennas and an American flag against a clear blue sky.
The Numbers

U.S. Airlines Had 37 Accidents in the First Ten Months of 2025, the Most Since at Least 2008. The Count for 2026 Is 20.

The National Transportation Safety Board's accident database lists 20 accidents on U.S. airline flights between January and October 2026, against 37 in the same months of 2025. No one aboard an airliner has died in a U.S. airline accident this year. Five people on the ground died when a cargo jet overran a runway in Miami in September.

Close view of a Ryanair Boeing 737 MAX's dark blue tail with the yellow harp logo, and a winglet bearing the Ryanair name, against a pale grey sky.
Business

Ryanair Flew 6 Per Cent More Passengers and Earned 15 Per Cent Less. Next Year's Extra €2 Billion of Fuel Works Out to About €9 a Passenger.

Ryanair's profit after tax fell 15 per cent to €2.15 billion in the six months to September as the fifth of its fuel it had not hedged roughly doubled in price, the airline said on Monday 2 November. Passengers rose 6 per cent to 125.8 million and average fares fell 4 per cent. It expects its fuel bill to rise by about €2 billion in the year to March 2028 and gave no profit forecast.

A Boeing 737 MAX test aircraft in Boeing's blue and white livery, registration N8701Q, parked on an apron with work stands and stairs beside it, with hangars, hills and a blue sky behind.
Business

Boeing Delivered 161 Airliners Last Quarter and Lost About $4.3 Million on Each. Its 6,300-Jet Backlog Would Take About a Decade to Build at This Year's Pace.

Boeing said on 27 October that third-quarter revenue rose 4 per cent to $24.2 billion and its net loss narrowed to $116 million, from $5.3 billion a year earlier. Its commercial airplanes unit lost $697 million on 161 deliveries. Total backlog reached a record $745 billion, including more than 6,300 commercial jets.

An American Airlines Boeing 737-800 in silver livery with a striped red, white and blue tail, landing gear down, on approach against a clear blue sky.
Business

American Airlines Made $115 Million Flying Passengers Last Quarter and Paid $435 Million in Interest. Fuel Will Cost It More Than $7 Billion Extra This Year.

American Airlines reported on 22 October that third-quarter revenue rose 19.3 per cent to a record $16.3 billion and that it still earned an operating profit of $115 million despite a $1.9 billion rise in fuel costs. Net interest expense of $435 million turned that into a net loss of $269 million. It now expects an adjusted loss of $1.00 to $1.60 a share for 2026.