Airline Weekly Lounge
Hosted by Gordon Smith and Jay Shabat and Meghna Maharishi · Skift
4.2from 192 ratings
- 446
- Episodes
- 144
- Transcribed
- 192
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Airline Weekly Lounge
The editors of Airline Weekly discuss the most interesting developments within the commercial airline industry. In keeping with Airline Weekly’s style, conversation generally centers on one question: How do you make money in this industry?
- Publisher
- Skift
- Category
- leisure · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Jul 2015
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
144 of 446 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Airlines Post Record Revenues But Costs Catch Up
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Not so much here in 2026, but now when we get into the other four remaining buckets, it's more problematic than tamed. And the third one I have on my list here is just the aircraft. Aircraft costs have nothing new. I mean, we've seen this for a couple of years now. But airlines continue to experience heavy aircraft cost inflation. And I'm not only talking about just the purchase of the aircraft or what it costs to lease an aircraft, but also what it costs to maintain an aircraft. And that has a lot to do with aerospace supply chains being... really under pressure since really all decade and they've arguably improved somewhat since 2022, I think was 2023, you know, or even going back into COVID. […]
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- YouTube views
- 2,228,330
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.0 / 5
- 143 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 49 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 92 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 94
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Who hosts Airline Weekly Lounge?
Gordon Smith and Jay Shabat and Meghna Maharishi host the show. Published by Skift.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Airline Weekly Lounge take guests?
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