AMERICAN CARRIERS PLEASE GET BACK TO BASICS
Listen American Airlines, United and the rest, stop thinking you are integrators and as such provide a time definite premium service. Unlike UPS and FedEx, you neither have the equipment nor the facilities to now even provide an acceptable level of service to domestic and international shippers. With so much of your fleets parked up [...]
IATA 2009 STATS TELL A SORRY TALE
Demand is falling faster than the airlines park up planes to reduce capacity and the consensus is the bottom has not been reached. It is projected collectively that the 226 member airlines will lose $9 billion this year on $448 billion. The IATA conference now taking place in Kuala Lumpur apparently has more journalists attending [...]
QANTAS-BRITISH AIRWAYS MERGER MAKES SENSE
I have long advocated that there is too much sensitivity and protectionism when it comes to how governments view their national carriers. Every nation, right down to tiny Nauru Island (population less than 10,000) has an international airline. Most are government-owned and if they aren’t, the largest shareholder is the government. The vast majority of [...]
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