An alliance for customers or the start of consolidation?
This week saw the birth of an alliance of low-cost airlines in Asia. The Value Alliance consists of eight...
Category: Aviation
Aviation – the next 100 years
Dubai’s Al Maktoum International Airport – this will look very different in twenty years. Sir Tim Clark was asked...
9/11 myths, fairytales and truthers
Picture taken in 2007 of some of those lost at the WTC on 9/11 I was a mixture of...
Career choices – low cost versus long haul
It is no great secret that when I was 16 I wanted to be an airline pilot. What if?...
Fixing the maths on Dubai’s airport expansion plans
A model of the future DWC on display at the 2015 Dubai Air Show Dubai Airports have appointed a...
RIP flydubai FZ981
It is always harder when the accident is closer to home. UAE airlines had not had a life-taking accident...
Germanwings – privacy or need to tell?
Image from GQ magazine – see story link below The French accident report into the crash of GermanWings flight...
Qatar fires Miami incident crew
Qatar Airways has apparently sacked the pilots responsible for substantially damaging a Boeing 777 when it struck a set...
Emirates adds combined Yangon and Hanoi
From 3rd August 2016 Emirates will launch a daily service from Dubai to Yangon (RGN) in Myanmar; and continuing...
Nok – ed out re-visited
Remember the story from the weekend about Nok Air pilots striking because the airline had told them that they...