Airline & Aviation Sector

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Airline Industry

The airline industry encompasses a wide range of businesses, called airlines, which offer air transport services for paying customers or business partners. These air transport services are provided for both human travellers and cargo, and are most commonly offered via jets, although some airlines also use helicopters.

Airlines may offer scheduled and/or chartered services and the airline industry forms a key part of the wider travel industry, providing customers with the ability to purchase seats on flights and travel to different parts of the world. The airline industry offers a variety of career paths, including pilots, flight attendants and ground crew.

Aviation Industry

Aviation is the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air balloons and airships.

Aviation began in the 18th century with the development of the hot air balloon, an apparatus capable of atmospheric displacement through buoyancy. Some of the most significant advancements in aviation technology came with the controlled gliding flying of Otto Lilienthal in 1896; then a large step in significance came with the construction of the first powered airplane by the Wright brothers in the early 1900s. Since that time, aviation has been technologically revolutionized by the introduction of the jet which permitted a major form of transport throughout the world.

Airlines on American Exchanges

Company	Revenues ($)	Net Income ($)	Cash ($)	Total Equity ($)
Alaska Air Group	1.6B	-0.2B	2.1B	4.0B
Allegiant Air	0.4B	-33.0M	0.5B	0.8B
American Airlines	8.5B	-2.2B	0.5B	-2.6B
COPA Holdings	0.6B	74.3M	1.0B	2.0B
Delta Airlines	8.6B	-0.5B	6.0B	14.3B
Hawaiian Holdings	0.6B	-0.1B	0.8B	0.9B
LATAM Airlines	2.3B	-2.1B	0.8B	82.4M
United Airlines	8.0B	-1.7B	5.2B	9.4B
Ryanair ADR	1.2B	-0.6B	3.8B	5.0B
Southwest Airlines	4.2B	-94M	5.5B	9.1B
Spirit Airlines	0.8B	-28M	0.9B	2.2B
SkyWest	0.7B	30M	0.6B	2.2B

Canadian Airlines

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Company	Revenues ($)	Net Income ($)	Cash ($)	Total Equity ($)
Air Canada	3.7B	-1.1B	6.1B	4.3B
Air Transat	0.7B	33.8M	0.7B	0.5B
CargoJet	123M	0	2.2M	0.3B
Chorus Aviation	0.4B	-17.3M	90.7M	0.6B

Aircraft Manufacturers

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Company	Revenues ($)	Net Income ($)	Cash ($)	Total Equity ($)
AirBus	10.6B	-0.5B	3.1B	3.5B
Boeing	16.9B	-0.6B	15.5B	-9.7B

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