AMSTERDAM - Investors are increasingly optimistic about the aviation sector, as travel restrictions are lifted, and people want to go on holiday again. The stock prices of the major airlines rose by tens of percent this week.
An overview of the price gains since Monday morning:
Air France-KLM - 5.57 euros (+31 percent)
IAG - £ 327.50 (+36 percent)
Lufthansa - 10.87 euros (+16 percent)
Ryanair - 12.88 euros (+13 percent)
EasyJet - 891.20 pounds (+27 percent)
In the United States, airline prices went up even faster. The stock exchange so far for Delta has won 39 percent last week, United 54 percent and American Airlines a whopping 75 percent.
The latter announced Thursday to restore domestic capacity to 55 percent of its previous level in July. The Lufthansa Group (which is no longer in the DAX index) and KLM also came with good news this week: they are restarting more than three-quarters of the routes.