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Scarce aircraft, doubled fuel costs and Spirit’s exit have handed US airlines pricing power not seen since 2022. Data from a Cirium and Bloomberg Intelligence webinar shows who used it, who could not, and what changes when fuel eases.

Delta has added free Wi-Fi to its last uncovered Asia-Pacific routes, reaching about 95% of flights, as United and Southwest close the gap with Starlink.

Lufthansa Group has renamed its Green Fare under new EU green-claims rules. Contrail avoidance trials at American and Cathay remain outside any fare product.

Delta, United, American and Southwest all leaned on loyalty and premium in Q3 2026 to absorb fuel costs, each with its own lever but the same underlying logic.

American Airlines’ loyalty IP vehicle has taken a British travel agency consortium to London’s IP court over a logo clash with AAdvantage, a case that reads less like a rebrand dispute and more like brand-protection playing by consumer-trademark rules.

American adds Miami-Barcelona, its third Venezuelan route; ITA will fly Rome-Caracas from March 2027. Venezuela’s links to the US and Europe are coming back.

American will fit Starlink across its entire mainline fleet from 2027. With almost every serious competitor now committed, Delta’s bet on Amazon’s Leo network is starting to look less like discipline and more like exposure.

Qantas has confirmed nonstop Sydney–New York flights from mid-2028, completing a promise made in 2017. In a category that compresses every launch into a week, it has sold the same story for over a decade.

United, American and Air Canada are building their transatlantic growth around the Airbus A321XLR. Delta is the only major US network carrier refusing it, and the choice reveals two opposite theories of what premium is for.