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Welcome to ExPlaned, the channel that is your go to for everything about aviation. Our names are Gunther & Joël and we are the founders of this channel. We have always had an interest in aviation and more specific in how airlines operate and what is going on internally. On our channel we dig deep into how airlines operate and try to bring my analysis as objective as we can weighing the positive and the negative. Experience everything on airlines from an entirely new perspective. For

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00:25:15

ITA Airways Exists Because Italy Couldn’t Let...

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2026/10/09

On October 14, 2021, Alitalia flew for the last time, and the next morning ITA Airways took off with half the fleet, a quarter of the staff and a $105 million name it could not use. Behind that handover sat an estimated $15 billion in rescues, a takeover Italy turned down in 2008, and two decades of decisions that each made sense to whoever signed them. This is how ITA Airways came to exist, how it made its first profit by getting smaller, and why Lufthansa is now set to own 90 percent of it.

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00:22:53

FedEx Built An Airline Empire Without Selling A...

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2026/10/02

FedEx flies around 700 aircraft to more than 220 countries, more jets than Emirates and Qatar Airways combined, and it has never sold a single ticket. This is the whole story: the Yale term paper nobody believed, the blackjack table that covered a fuel bill in 1973, why every parcel still goes through Memphis, and the airport that now carries Frederick Smith's name.

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00:21:31

Brussels Airlines Was Born From Bankruptcy And Saved...

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2026/09/25

In 2016 Lufthansa bought the rest of Belgium’s flag carrier for 2.6 million euros, less than the cost of a single spare engine, and then spent the next decade refusing to sell it, fold it into Eurowings, or close it down. The reason has almost nothing to do with Belgium: Brussels Airlines holds eighteen sub-Saharan African destinations, around fifty-six percent of everything the entire Lufthansa Group serves on that continent, on a route map drawn by a colonial empire that cannot be rebuilt from

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00:26:50

Why Does EgyptAir Need a $3.5B Airport When Egypt...

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2026/09/18

Egypt earns money from aircraft that never land there. Every flight crossing the Cairo Flight Information Region owes a route charge billed in euros from an office in Brussels, and while the Suez Canal collapsed, the airspace above it only got busier. This is EgyptAir, the airline Egypt would need if it ever wanted those planes to actually stop.https://explaned.gumroad.com/l/whyairlineswinWant to understand why some airlines dominate while others collapse? We turned the research framework behind

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00:17:42

The Man Who Lost EVA Air In One Day Built Its Biggest...

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2026/09/11

EVA Air invented premium economy in 1992 and got almost none of the credit for it. It was not founded by an airline man but by a shipping magnate who waited two full years before flying a single passenger, and in thirty five years it has never lost an aircraft. Then he died, and the family that built the safest airline in Asia could not hold a succession together for twenty four hours.

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00:25:07

Why Pakistan International Airlines Was Sold For Just...

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2026/09/04

This is the full story of Pakistan International Airlines. The air force commander who decided a poor country's airline had no business behaving like one. The London to Karachi speed record from 1962 that has never been beaten. The 1964 route into China that no western airline could fly. The decade PIA made money by building other countries' airlines instead of flying passengers. The night in 1971 that cut its traffic in half. The Boeing 777 that flew further than any airliner in history and

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00:27:39

TAP Air Portugal Is About To Stop Being Portuguese

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2026/08/28

Last year TAP Air Portugal made a profit of 4.1 million euros on revenue of 4.3 billion. Airlines with margins like that get wound up quietly. They do not get fought over.And yet on the 29th of July 2026, Lufthansa and Air France-KLM both filed binding offers for almost half of it.This is the whole story of Portugal's flag carrier. The general who founded it and the state that later turned on him. The Imperial Line that crossed two continents before TAP ever flew Lisbon to Porto. The Madeira

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00:14:44

Why Emirates Has No Safety Net And It's About To Cost...

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2026/08/21

Why is Emirates still posting record profits when its entire business model has no safety net?In 2026, a drone strike closed Dubai International Airport, Emirates' only hub, for 64 days, and Boeing's 777X is now seven years late. Yet Emirates still delivered a record $6.2 billion profit by flying its ageing A380 fleet harder than anyone expected.In this video we break down exactly how Emirates operates with no domestic market, no alliance partners and no narrowbody aircraft and why the

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00:21:35

How Avianca Survived Pablo Escobar, Pan Am And Two...

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2026/08/14

Avianca is the second oldest airline still flying anywhere in the world, and almost nothing about the last hundred years should have allowed that.It began in 1919 as a Colombian and German mail service flying Junkers floatplanes down the Magdalena River. By February 1930, Pan Am had quietly taken 84.4 percent of the company in a secret deal with Juan Trippe, and for decades Colombia's flag carrier was effectively an American subsidiary. Pan Am shut down in 1991. Avianca did not.Then came the

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00:16:31

Japan Airlines: From The World's Worst Tragedy To The...

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2026/08/14

One airline holds aviation's darkest record and its most celebrated escape. This is the 40 year story of how Japan Airlines rebuilt itself... twice.By the 1980s the red crane on the tail belonged to what many called the number one airline in the world. What came next reshaped the company completely: a loss that made safety the entire reason the airline existed, a merger that left it bloated and slow, and in 2010 the largest corporate collapse in Japanese history outside of banking, carrying

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00:18:17

Why Nobody Has Hijacked El Al Since 1968 Despite...

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2026/08/14

Why has nobody successfully hijacked an El Al aircraft since 1968, despite El Al being one of the most targeted airlines in aviation history?This documentary explores how Israel’s national airline transformed from a repainted military transport into what has been described as a security agency with wings.We examine El Al’s layered security system, including armed sky marshals, reinforced cockpit doors, psychological passenger screening, decompression testing for suspicious luggage, and the C-MUSIC

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00:18:02

Why Lufthansa Is Trying To Destroy Condor, The...

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2026/08/14

Twice in six years, Condor came within hours of switching off for good. Both times it survived. And both times, the trail leads back to the same company that created it: Lufthansa.Condor is Germany’s biggest holiday airline. Nine and a half million passengers a year, ninety destinations, and the loudest paint job in the sky. But it started life in 1955 as a joint venture between two shipping lines, a railway and Lufthansa, it carries a name borrowed from a 1920s German aviation venture in Brazil,

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00:18:04

Hainan Airlines_ The Story Behind China's Biggest...

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2026/08/14

How did HNA Group spend $50 billion in just two years? See the rapid rise and collapse of this massive corporate acquisition spree.This video traces the history of HNA Group, starting from the founding of Hainan Airlines in 1989 to its aggressive global expansion. We examine the specific business strategy that led them to acquire major stakes in Hilton Hotels and Deutsche Bank between 2015 and 2017. If you are interested in corporate finance or the mechanics of large-scale business failure, this

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00:17:59

Why The Rise of LATAM Is Making It's South American...

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2026/07/16

In May 2020, LATAM stopped paying its debts. All $16 billion of them. The stock was delisted, the credit rating was junk, and two of the continent's biggest airlines filed for the same protection that year. Everyone assumed at least one of the three was finished.Three years later, LATAM hadn't shrunk. No government rescued it. It came out the largest airline group in the entire Southern Hemisphere, posting the biggest profit it had ever made. And it got there not by waiting for travel to

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00:17:48

Why Royal Air Maroc Wants 200 Planes But Only Has 60!

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2026/07/14

Morocco is co-hosting the 2030 FIFA World Cup, and its national airline has made the biggest bet in African aviation: turning a fleet of around 60 planes into 200. Five years ago, Royal Air Maroc was losing more than 100 million dollars a month, cutting a third of its pilots and selling brand new Boeing 787 Dreamliners just to survive. Today it is posting record results, planning a Casablanca mega hub as the only African member of the OneWorld alliance, and challenging Ethiopian Airlines for control

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00:20:09

Why Vietnam Airlines Is Asia’s Most Dangerous Comeback!

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2026/07/03

Five years ago Vietnam Airlines was technically insolvent, bleeding cash, and facing removal from its own stock exchange. In 2026 it walked into Washington and signed an eight billion dollar order for fifty Boeing 737 MAX jets. This is the full story of Vietnam's flag carrier: the Soviet-era origins, the American embargo years, the crashes that nearly defined it, the pandemic collapse that should have ended it, and the comeback that made it one of Boeing's most surprising new customers.Subscribe for

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00:15:14

Why IndiGo's Unbeatable Strategy For Winning India...

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2026/06/02

IndiGo controls 60% of India's domestic aviation market. 440 aircraft. 2,700 daily flights. A single aircraft type strategy refined to absolute perfection.Then December 2025 happened. On-time performance collapsed to 3.7%. 1.62 million passengers stranded. The CEO summoned by the government and then resigned.The airline that looked unbeatable had engineered its own collapse. And the very strategy that made IndiGo dominant is exactly what broke it.This is the story of how India's largest

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00:18:28

Why STARLUX Is The Most Dangerous New Airline For...

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2026/06/02

In 2020, while every airline on Earth was grounded, one fired CEO did the unthinkable. He launched Starlux Airlines from a tiny island of 23 million people and just 5 years later, his all-Airbus A350 and A330neo fleet earned the fastest 5-Star rating in aviation history.This is the story of K.W. Chang, the betrayed son of EVA Air's founder, the family coup that fired him mid-flight, and how his impossible airline rewrote the rules that Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific and EVA Air thought they

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00:16:42

How Etihad Stopped Chasing Emirates And Became The...

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2026/06/02

Etihad launched 18 years after Emirates. No head start. No network. No chance of winning the scale war. So they tried to buy one.$4.75 billion later, with Alitalia and Air Berlin in ruins, they had nothing to show for it. What happened next is the story nobody talks about. New leadership. Zero ego. A complete reset. No more equity alliances. No more chasing scale. Just a boutique premium carrier with the discipline every other airline failed to maintain.By 2025, Etihad posted an 8.4% profit margin

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00:17:04

Why Air India's Resurrection Just Triggered The War...

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2026/06/02

For 70 years, India's national carrier was the pride of Asian aviation. Then state ownership turned a pioneer into a punchline. In 2022, Tata Group paid $2.5 billion to take it back inheriting $8 billion in debt, rusting planes, and a brand Indian passengers no longer trusted.What happened next shocked the industry. Air India placed the largest single aircraft order in history: 470 planes from Boeing and Airbus, worth $70 billion at list price. The fleet includes A350s, 787 Dreamliners, and the

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