India’s Aviation Ambitions
Last week’s Paris show saw Indian airlines accounting for a third of orders. This is a $23bn bet on the future of an industry that suffers from state meddling and support for a dinosaur national airline. Taking such a big…
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In Praise of Service
The air travel business is a tough place to trade in. Airplanes are about equal and it is difficult to make the travel experience “special” or different. Yesterday we saw first hand how an airline can stand out by using…
Black Box Recovery of AF447
This video is mainly in French. Viewers can see the extent of technology deployment and the number of experts on site involved with each step. Congratulations to the team on their work. [youtube]TklixzANphg[/youtube] Views: 19
Airline vs GDS’ – the escalation
Yesterday US Airways joined the fray, so we now have two airlines fighting with the GDS. American is no longer alone and its Don Quixote-like battle with the GDS’ now seems much more plausible. Indeed, we expect to see other…
Continental goes for Ka
Yesterday Continental announced it is going to install Ka-band connectivity from LiveTV. This means about 200 US domestic airplanes (737 and 757) are going to be able to offer Internet connectivity as this process gets rolled out. The story is…
Skymark starts Japanese disruption
Today Skymark made it official. As the Airbus PR states: Views: 50