international airlines group, which owns british airways, iberia, vueling and aer lingus, has posted9% rise in annual profit. the firm's been benifiting from a shake—up amongst european carriers and rising fares. its boss has been upbeat in what's been a turbulent period for airlines. last year, monarch became the third european carrier to collapse, following air berlin and alitalia's bankruptcy. it's one of the factors helping iag, along with improving fares after a spell which saw low fuel prices force airlines to flood the market with cheaper tickets. peter morris is chief economist at flight peter morris is chief economist at flight global and joins us now. what is it that iag is doing so right right now? three elements, overall regulatory framework which is common, economic geography coverage of the region they are in and a flexibility of business model and what iag is doing very well at at the moment is that ability of business model across the whole spectrum of markets. do you mean from cheap right up to the luxury end of the market? leisure to business end of the market and al

one of the world's biggest airline groups, iag, releases its latest numbers in the next couple of hours. international airlines group owns british airways, iberia, vueling, and aer lingus, and is hoping to benefits from a shake—up amongst european carriers and rising fares. it's boss has been upbeat in what's been a turbulent period for airlines. last year, monarch became the third european carrier to collapse, following air berlin and alitalia. it's one of the factors helping iag, along with improving fares after a spell which saw low fuel prices force airlines to flood the market with cheaper tickets. and last was particularly tough, iag suffered a major it collapse that stranded 75,000 passenger and cost iag $103 million. the airline launched a budget airline called level last year, offering fares from barcelona to several us cities for $137 one way. this transatlantic market, the most lucrative in the world, saw budget carriers boost capacity on these routes by 68% last summer. with me is daniel roeska, transport analyst at bernstein research. thank you forjoining us. let us start on what you can

one of the world's biggest airline groups — iag releases its latest numbers in the next couple of hours. international airways, iberia, vueling and aer lingus. priya lakhani — founder and ceo of century tech — joins me now. we will the papers later on as well. the expectations are of some positive figures stipulate they reported in october last year some positive results, coming out with expectations of increases because of the low—cost airlines. expectations of increases because of the low-cost airlines. we have seen a rocky sector. last year we had monica airlines, air berlin, and others going into administration. what it has meant for the larger airlines, iag, etc, is that hopefully they can push prices up. it is all about price increases at an operating level, a difficult operating environment, try to decrease costs. it is difficult when you are dealing with large airports like heathrow. that is a good point. it is the nature of these things. there is a picture of the ceo, as say, salivating over the you say, salivating over the colla pse you say, salivating over the collapse of some of these smal

he's chief executive of international airlines group that own5 ba and iberia. good morning.that is misunderstood. we said we expect unit revenue to improve. prices actually came down in 2017. unit revenue is a combination of the average fare but also the seat factor, how many 5eat5 we feel on aircraft. we were filling more last year. that was driving the overall performance of the business. it is on the back of reduced fares in 2017. let's talk about some of thei55ue5 in 2017. let's talk about some of the issues that affected you as an airline this year. the massive it failure caused by a powerfailure. you said it cost you £75 million of compensation and putting that right. it also cost you many angry customers. it did. we apologise in the past. we learned many lessons. we had shared tho5e le55on5 the past. we learned many lessons. we had shared tho5e lessons with other companies. no airline wants to 5ee other companies. no airline wants to see that. but we have overcome that. the performance of the airline has been quite strong in 2017 and we expect that to improve signific

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