Azul Linhas Aéreas

Hoje a gente tem dezessete voos regionais, então Minas Gerais é muito grande, então a importância dessa conectividade pro interior, então a gente atua.

Hoje a gente tem voos da Azul pra dezessete cidades em Minas Gerais.

Pra não depender de carro, né, Milena?

Exatamente, o tempo todo.

These few survivors, though, are not all failures hanging on to their last fragments of life.

Over the past five years, before the COVID-induced travel downturn, Condor, Cebu Pacific, Azul Airlines, Jetstar, TUI, Scoot, and WestJet have each operated long-haul, low-cost flights at varying levels but earned a profit.

Meanwhile, though, AirAsia X, Norwegian Airlines, Eurowings, and countless now-bankrupt low-cost long-haul airlines operated at a loss.

So considering some can do it, why can't they all? What's the secret sauce to a profitable long-haul, low-cost airline? Well, these are the 14 measurable characteristics that might impact the profitability of a given long-haul, low-cost airline.

Out of more than 60 long-haul routes, only eight of theirs have direct competition, and only one of those, Amsterdam to Paramaribo, is flown by two competing airlines.

Each of their routes is also extremely low frequency, with an average of only three nonstop flights per week, and most uniquely, they fly these flights from 18 different hubs across Europe.

Now, these statistical differences are manifestations of the true, more fundamental difference between AirAsia X and TUI, or Norwegian Airlines and Condor, or WOW Air and Azul Airlines.

What's actually different between these airlines and these airlines is how they deal with demand.