Airline alliances, including the Star Alliance, oneworld, and SkyTeam, have generated substantial benefits for their members. Those benefits, however, have primarily been on the marketing side of the business, as code-shares and connecting traffic increase revenues for alliance members, particularly…
At the ISTAT conference in Istanbul, Turkish Airlines CEO Dr. Temel Kotil shared an interesting view on how the airline selects an aircraft for a certain route: For to 4-5 hour segments, a single aisle aircraft has a lower cost…
We had a chance to speak with Turkish Airlines CEO Dr. Temel Kotil at ISTAT in Istanbul this morning after his keynote address. Views: 35
The most brutal area of commercial aerospace is the single aisle market. Competition between Airbus and Boeing is fierce. So fierce that new entrants rightly fear the news these giants are going to increase production. The pool may be growing…
While the airfreight industry and the market for large freighters has been in a recession over the last few years, a bright spot for the air cargo sector has been the surge in order for passenger to freight (P2F) conversions…
We published a premium story today on the timing of the A380’s launch. The timing of the A380 launch was driven by many factors and certainly one of the principal factors was competing with Boeing’s 747 and its monopoly of…