Is TSA Killing Air Travel?
Why do we fly? The answer is quite simple – to get somewhere much faster than if we drove. Speed is the name of the game in aviation. But we’ve regressed since the 1970s, which had minimal security lines and…
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Airlines not profiteering – IATA
IATA DG Tony Tyler spoke in front of an audience of airline chiefs and regulators in Singapore, saying that airline industry profitability remained fragile despite $36bn in industry profits forecast for 2016. See more on this speech here. So what…
With $30 Oil, Why Do Some Airlines Maintain Fuel Surcharges?
Airline fuel surcharges have begun to largely disappear. Carriers have eliminated them as oil prices remain low. But there are a few airlines that are hanging on to fuel surcharges, and some, like Qantas, that built surcharges into their base fares…
WamosAir deploys Ideagen’s Gael Enlighten
Aviation safety management specialists, Ideagen, is providing Spanish charter airline WamosAir with its leading cloud-based safety management software, Gael Enlighten. This quick video will explain what the software does. WamosAir is implementing Gael Enlighten to remove a series of silo…
2015 EFB Survey Report
Our fourth annual EFB survey report will be available from Monday January 18. The 34 page report (PDF) includes six sections (Airline Operations, Connectivity, Business Case Drivers, Future Planning, Cyber Security, Tablet EFBs) with 46 charts and a foreword by…
Oil – Demand and Supply
We are currently seeing oil prices fall as the world seems awash in oil. By any reasonable view, supply exceeds demand. How true is this? The International Energy Agency estimates global demand for crude at 96 million barrels of oil…