Global Airline Data Snapshot: Overcapacity Looms

Ethiopian continues to build its hub operation in Addis Abbaba, one of the few success stories in African air transport.

Airlines in China are driving the growth in Asia-Pacific aviation and are now expanding aggressively on international routes.

Europe's legacy carriers, such as Air France, are struggling to adjust to new market realities—most of the growth in the sector is linked to expansion of low-cost carriers.

The recession in Brazil is leading airlines to cut routes and capacity. More consolidation is likely.

For now, the good times appear to be over for Qatar Airways and the other Gulf carriers as slow demand and pressure on yields affect results.

U.S. carriers will contribute almost half of the global airlines industry's 2017 profits, but yield pressures are a growing challenge.