More terrible aviation news: A passenger jet carrying 153 souls has crashed into the sea in the Indian Ocean. According to press reports, the flight was a Yemenia Airbus A310 flying out of Yemen into the island of Comoros. It was ...READ»
Road Warriors – there is good news for any last minute business trips you might be considering before the end of 2008. We are seeing sharp declines in ticket prices that present affordable opportunities to close that last sales ...READ»
Fuel prices and future fuel hedging strategies will continue to heavily influence the financial performance of airlines in the coming year. And interestingly, the fuel price situation may present opportunities for carriers that have ...READ»
The a la carte model seems to be the topic du jour these days in the world of air travel. The airlines' move to an unbundled, or a la carte, strategy is forecast by many to be one of the biggest evolutions in airline retailing since ...READ»
At the annual Routes World Development Forum in Kuala Lumpur, 700 airports and 500 airlines begin the mating dance that determines who flies where.READ»
Airline carriers are cutting capacity an average of six to 14 percent this fall. (That’s nearly 3,000 fewer domestic flights a day during Thanksgiving!) With the usual increase in leisure travelers due to holiday traffic in the last ...READ»
No one ever before asked consumers in a survey what they thought of à la carte airline pricing, so Amadeus decided to. Passengers were polled about the new fees for everything from bags and food/beverages to pillows and seat ...READ»
This morning I had the pleasure of being one of the first through the new Indianapolis International Airport. My only regret is that I am adding this to the blogosphere so late in the day from the Pacific Northwest.
Arriving early, ...READ»
The aviation market is under tremendous cost pressure, with not only high fuel prices but a softening economy impacting air travel and causing carriers to slash capacity. And these factors are pushing carriers to become quite dynamic ...READ»
