Sentence examples for airline forecasts from inspiring English sources

After reporting losses of $450 million in 2001 and $352 million in 2000, the airline forecasts a $77 million profit this year.

Viewed another way, higher fuel prices would consume more out half of the $916 million operating profit the airline forecasts.

Says Vaughn Cordle, founder of Airline Forecasts: "Frontier may be a good company, but they are operating in a really bad industry".

"They're high on the fumes of growth," said Vaughn Cordle, an airline economist with Airline Forecast in Washington.

The airline forecast swelling losses in the first quarter, largely because of rising fuel costs and slackening demand.

"Kate Hanni doesn't want a solution, she just wants to beat up on airlines," said Michael Boyd, the president of the airline forecasting group Boyd Group International.

Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, said the airline forecast significant growth opportunities in Europe as other carriers cut back service.

In the long term, the industry changes are "structurally fundamental and permanent," said Michael Boyd, the president of the airline forecasting company the Boyd Group International.

But the airlines may have kept their losses in check: Michael Boyd, the president of the airline forecasting firm Boyd Group International, estimated that the bottom-line loss to carriers from the storm was a relatively modest $100 million.

The airline forecast its first full-year loss in at least eight years on fuel-hedging losses and a travel slump.

The airline, however, forecast that its profit would drop 43percentto to 17 billion yen, this year because of rising fuel costs.