Originally Posted by
B707
Hello everyone, I noticed that Republic is fourth on this list of airline profit margins. I read on this site that RAH has a very bad reputation. Is the company profitable because of how they treat employees? It is hard to believe that a regional airline has such a wide profit margin.
Rank Best Margin
1 Copa (Panama) 22%
2 Spirit (U.S.) 18%
3 Allegiant (U.S.) 16%
4 Republic (U.S.) 16%
5 Ryanair (Ireland) 15%
6 Alaska (U.S.) 14%
7 Japan Airlines (Japan) 12%
8 Aegean (Greece) 12%
9 Hainan Airlines (China) 12%
10 Delta (U.S.) 11%
11 easyJet (U.K) 11%
12 WestJet (Canada) 11%
13 Southwest (U.S.) 11%
14 American (U.S.) 10%
15 Air Arabia (United Arab Emirates) 10%
Source:
Seven U.S. carriers among the world?s most profitable airlines | Dallas Morning News
They are talking about operating profit. Our closest peer in terms of operations, customers, etc is Skywest. They're operating margin for 2014 was 0.77% while ours was 13.49%. Net Income for Skywest for 2014 was -0.75% and ours was 4.68%. Our numbers are mostly due to the aircraft operated and a very outdated contract. There's is mostly due to poor management of the ASA/ExpressJet deal (or so it seems to me).