Kai Risdahl

In New York, I'm Sabri Beneshour for Marketplace.

That last bit there, that was important.

Wall Street today, as I said, a geopolitical relief rally.

We will have the details when we do the numbers.

Corporate news is our next destination because the economy never does stop, you know.

American Commercial Aviation, the big name premium airlines anyway, are doing quite nicely.

Thank you very much.

Delta had an upbeat quarterly report earlier this month.

United reported after the close yesterday, beat Wall Street's best guesses.

Revenue is up both in the front of the plane.

And in the back, where most of us sit, is revenue per available seat mile.

Apologies for the airline jargon.

Their words, not ours.

It was highest at the end of last year and into this with the first full week of January, setting company records for ticket sales.

Looking ahead, though, to the rest of 2026, there might be some unfriendly skies, as Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman reports.

Given all the headline news and the negative vibes, you'd think things would be worse than they actually are.

There's still a decent level of growth and a very reasonable level of profitability, too.

Global tensions in several places, closed airspace, never good for international travel.

The Trump administration's capture of Nicolas Maduro a couple of weeks ago made all kinds of headlines, as it should have.

Lost in the hubbub, though, was a tidbit from the world of betting markets.