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Airlines are expected to achieve a combined total net profit of $41 billion in 2026 (up from $39.5 billion in 2025).
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Source
- Publisher
- International Air Transport Association · homepage ↗
- Report
- Airline Profitability Stabilizes with 3.9% Net Margin Expected in 2026
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 9 December 2025
- Locator
- Highlights
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable
- Report licence
- Proprietary report; figure taken from its public summary
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- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Extraction confidence
- 87%
- Last change
- 15 September 2026
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- APA
- International Air Transport Association. (2025). Airline Profitability Stabilizes with 3.9% Net Margin Expected in 2026. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FPA
- MLA
- International Air Transport Association. "Airline Profitability Stabilizes with 3.9% Net Margin Expected in 2026." 2025, https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-12-09-01/. Accessed 14 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FPA.
- Chicago
- International Air Transport Association. "Airline Profitability Stabilizes with 3.9% Net Margin Expected in 2026." 2025. https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-12-09-01/. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FPA.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iata2025airline, author = {{International Air Transport Association}}, title = {Airline Profitability Stabilizes with 3.9% Net Margin Expected in 2026}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FPA}, note = {Original source: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-12-09-01/. Accessed 14 September 2026.} }
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Record last modified 15 September 2026. Value type: forecast. Update cadence: annual. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T62B5SP11A28TN24FPA.