Monday, October 21, 2013

Gambia Bird Airlines selects airRM as its revenue management system

I wrote almost a year ago about my worries for Gambia Bird having a possible schedule disruption resulting from depending on one aircraft to serve the carrier’s entire network.
Now, the airline acquired one more A319. Thus, there are fewer worries about possible schedule disruption, even with the increase the airline’s network of destinations.
The decision of the airline to acquire an automated revenue management system is a commendable step into the future for the fledgling national airline of Gambia. I am thinking that the airline got a good deal from the Revenue Management Systems Inc because of being the vendor’s first customer in Africa.
Date: 13 October 2013 commenting on http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/

Monday, October 14, 2013

Broken toilets, other glitches ground Japan Airlines Dreamliner

Those things are happening as if we have no other aircraft type commercially operating nowadays. It is one more episode of B787 and its endless course of headache-causing operation.

Turning back two hours after departure is an operational loss but almost a must. I can not imagine that flight continuing the trip to Tokyo with a fuselage-long queue of passengers who are waiting to use the only one functioning toilet available on-board.

The name given to B787, Dreamliner, is not realistic anymore. What about nightmare-liner, as a realistic alternative?
Date: 13 October 2013 commenting on http://abcnews.go.com/

Sunday, October 13, 2013

The best way to find a cheap airplane ticket according to two guys who set fares

The Oscar goes to revenue management systems.
Those systems can not beaten by a non-specialized article.
The revenue systems are mostly influenced by the buying behaviors of passengers. The reaction of the revenue system could be either accepted or rejected by the revenue analyst controlling the flight.
So, any advice is somehow useless as long as passengers can not unify their buying behavior toward a specific flight.  
Date: 26 September 2013 commenting on http://www.businessweek.com/