Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Flight attendants flying high and on TV too

I can not agree with you more.
In-flight service is an extremely important component of the airline brand. However, the integrated concept of airline branding has a long way to go before being the norm. Unfortunately, some airline executives still look at the airline industry as a cash cow.
On the other hand, considerable number of today’s passengers has humble idea of what a good in-flight service is supposed to be. Putting extreme cases aside, those passengers - mostly from the third world countries - will be satisfied with the service they receive most of the time.

Date: 27 July 2011 commenting on http://christinenegroni.blogspot.com/

Civil aviation workers prepare for mass protests on Monday

Workers versus management, who would win when it comes to head-on confrontation?
Generally, workers are right with their request regarding the ex-military air force senior officers. Moving to civilian aviation field is not supposed to be the de facto retirement path for military air personnel unless they have really higher credentials than the senior staff of the civilian aviation companies in question. In other words, the workers have to accept the decision of appointing ex-military personnel if the latter are meticulously superior in their credentials.
On the other hand, the protesting workers have to be careful not to cause interruption to the operation of their companies. Otherwise, they might find themselves on the street suffering from the plague of unemployment. After all, they have been hired to do specific tasks, and demonstration is definitely not one of them.

Date: 25 July 2011 commenting on http://www.almasryalyoum.com/

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Singapore Airlines and Transaero Airlines agree to codeshare

It is a more advantage to Transaero Airlines to have such a codeshare agreement with Singapore Airlines.
The codeshare sector of Domodedovo-St Petersburg is really the most attractive for Singapore Airlines while the two sectors offered by Singapore Airlines - to Singapore and Houston - are of extreme importance to Transaero Airlines.

Date: 19 July 2011 commenting on http://www.airlinesanddestinations.com/

Saturday, July 16, 2011

United Airlines takes on United Airways – Can we guess the victor?

Guessing the victor is not a hard task at all.
It is an obvious issue of trademark violation. The intruder has to come up with a non-violating name and withdraw from the scene.
Away from resolving the issue, what could be the reason for United Airways to use a detonatable name like that?
Is United Airways aware of branding issues and their importance in today's marketplace?
Did they think of the cost of repainting their fleet?
I would say that they thought that the name would give the airline the initial momentum needed to help it during the early stage of operation. So the question is - did they manage to use the name of the humongous rival to their advantage? Did they achieve enough profit to pay for the repainting job and the possible monetary compensation payable to United Airlines?

Date: 05 July 2011 commenting on http://www.airlinereporter.com/

Monday, July 11, 2011

Egyptian minister disgruntled at not being searched at Cairo Airport

We trust you, Mr. Minister.
Take it easy on yourself Mr. Minister. We trust you. It does not make any sense for the security personnel to search you and your luggage while letting a low-rank policeman to go without searching. What I said so far does NOT mean that the security personnel at Cairo Airport are doing a great job. On the contrary, the applicable security system needs to be totally revamped.

Date: 10 June 2011 commenting on http://english.ahram.org.eg/

Sunday, July 10, 2011

“Filthy” Cunard Queen Mary 2 fails inspection

Cockroaches? How disgusting!
Did Cunard forget all about the meaning of luxury?
Did luxury become a synonym of filth?
What would be the meaning of previously achieving 100% rating? It simply means once upon the time. It means history. A future similar to the history would be achieved if Cunard knows that excellence cannot be achieved by chance. It is rather achieved through real commitment and a set of deliberate actions. Being committed to carelessness is definitely the way down the tubes.

Date: 27 June 2011 commenting on http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/