
Leslie Josephs
Airline Reporter at CNBC
Airline reporter @cnbc. Previously @wsj in New York and @ap in Peru. Queens native. Dog is my co-pilot. Reach out: [email protected]
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JetBlue to cut more flights, other costs with break-even 2025 'unlikely' due to weaker travel demand
1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Leslie Josephs
JetBlue Airways CEO Joanna Geraghty told staff that the carrier is implementing a host of new cost cuts as softer-than-expected travel demand is making break-even operating margins this year "unlikely.""We're hopeful demand and bookings will rebound, but even a recovery won't fully offset the ground we've lost this year and our path back to profitability will take longer than we'd hoped.
JetBlue to cut more flights, other costs with break-even 2025 'unlikely' due to weaker travel demand
1 week ago |
cnbc.com | Leslie Josephs
A JetBlue Airways Airbus A321-231 taxis at San Diego International Airport on March 4, 2025 in San Diego, California. Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesJetBlue Airways CEO Joanna Geraghty told staff that the carrier is implementing a host of new cost cuts as softer-than-expected travel demand is making break-even operating margins this year unlikely.
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1 week ago |
cnbc.com | Leslie Josephs
The Boeing 787-9 civil jet airplane of Vietnam Airlines performs its flight display at the 51st Paris International Airshow in Le Bourget near Paris, France. (Photo by: aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)aviation-images.com | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesKelly Ortberg's first Paris Air Show as Boeing CEO was set to be relatively upbeat.
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flipboard.com | Leslie Josephs
Trump Is Paranoid Nobody Will Come to His 79th Birthday Parade: BiographerThe president is worried that it’s going to be his 2017 inauguration all over again. It’s Trump’s party, and he’ll cry if he wants to. To say that …
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2 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Leslie Josephs
Airlines around the world canceled flights to Israel and were skirting a large swath of airspace in the Middle East on Friday after Israel's overnight missile strikes on Iran. Iran later launched drones toward Israeli territory. Delta Air Lines on Friday afternoon said it was suspending its service to Tel Aviv, Israel,until at least September, just weeks after resuming flights there.
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U.S. domestic travel demand is slowing, corporate bookings are waning, so airlines are banking ever more on vacationers who believe, as Victoria Ratliff said, are just not "meant to live an uncomfortable life." https://t.co/Y2ief4qHoa

Walmart also pulls guidance, citing Trump tariffs https://t.co/usfGJct6ac

Delta axes 2H 2025 growth plans, pulls guidance, CEO Ed Bastian tells @CNBC that Trump's trade war is the "wrong approach" as bookings slide in what was supposed to be the airline's best year ever. $DAL https://t.co/x7WRuM137A

Delta axes 2H 2025 growth plans, pulls guidance, CEO Ed Bastian tells @CNBC that Trump's trade war is the "wrong approach" as bookings slide in what was supposed to be the airline's best year ever. $DAL https://t.co/x7WRuM137A