Blogs: A way to learn business

This is definitely a good idea for evaluating their newly acquired business skills.
Creating a blog and maintaining it would be treated as a graduation project. At the beginning, it might be more suitable to give the students the option of choosing between creating a blog or participating in one of any other existing projects.
For the students to discuss points of both strength and weakness could further enhance the idea for their classmates as well as the general public.
Since we are driving the highway of “new ideas,” what about the idea of creating and maintaining a Twitter account? Twitter is a micro-blogging tool; and it might be allocated for heavyweight challenging students only.

Date: 25 August 2009 commenting on http://aatir.wordpress.com/

Roasted in the social media

Only roasted? United Airlines has been already charred. It has become no longer edible.
With the ever-increasing role and effect of social media channels, the only way for all kinds of businesses is to go back to basics. I am quite sure that the current economic crisis is a result of forgetting the basics and switching to greedy patterns of business. Mr. Madoff, who scammed the whole world, is just an example.
United Airlines was aware of the case from the beginning as its careless employees were carefully playing all major roles of the customer service drama. United Airlines failed to assess the potential damage when the case was totally under its control before pushing the passenger to the point of no return.
Obviously, social media is recreating the rules of the game. Are we expecting to see social media channels added to the list of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)?

Date: 14 August 2009 commenting on http://www.aviationbusinessconsultants.com/

Cairo Airport to cut back on night time operations from June 1

What happened to the ambitious plan of building more terminals for Cairo Airport?
What are we expecting if the trends of both business and tourism are sharply going down? The current atmosphere is totally unhealthy for business and tourism to flourish.
The problem is that partial closure of the terminal one has not been decided as a part of a comprehensive plan of meeting the ugly condition of tourism in Egypt and consequently the deteriorating situation of airline business in Egypt.
Taking reactive decisions will not provide long-term solutions. Did they hear about proactive approach? What about trying one now?

Date: 05 April 2013 commenting on http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/
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Date: 06 April 2013 commenting on http://www.ch-aviation.ch/

EgyptAir terminates all flights to Japan

This is an example of the mediocre management of both EgyptAir and Egyptian Civil Aviation.
What is the reason for EgyptAir to wait for the situation to be deteriorated to the level of incurring massive economic losses?
What kind of support expected to be offered by either Japanese or Egyptian government? Well, Japan Airlines terminated its flights to Egypt long time ago because of no or limited commercial viability. Will it make any sense for the Japanese government to subsidize EgyptAir flights while it did not support the flights of Japan Airlines in the past? More importantly, it seems that EgyptAir management is not aware of the ongoing free market economy.

It is equally funny for the Egyptian Minister of Civil Aviation to admit that the loss of 6 billion Egyptian pounds only warrants for flight reduction. Why is he ignoring the idea of restructuring EgyptAir?
Considering the current economic situation of Egypt, the government will not be able to support the lousy non-economic operation of EgyptAir for a long time as it has some other aspects with higher priority.

Date: 29 March 2013 commenting on http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ 
Date: 30 March 2013 commenting on  http://www.japantoday.com/

Five airlines apply to fly into Zimbabwe

Currently, there are limited economic ties between Egypt and Zimbabwe to justify operating air service between Cairo and Harare.
I understand that EgyptAir’s interest to fly to Zimbabwe is to carry passengers neither originating nor destined to Egypt. EgyptAir plans to utilize its route network, mainly European, to feed its Zimbabwe flights through its hub at Cairo Airport. The problem is the mediocre service level available for transit passengers in Cairo. Unfortunately, both EgyptAir staff and Cairo Airport personnel have no idea about the notion of customer service.
Here is a link to a similar situation for the passengers of EgyptAir’s Juba flights upon transiting Cairo Airport.

Date: 26 February 2013 commenting on http://allafrica.com/

EgyptAir to let hostesses wear Islamic headscarves

It seems that the superficial religious trend in Egypt achieved a victory. What was the point for EgyptAir stewardesses to request to be allowed to wear headscarves?
Are they trying to prove that they are complying with the Islamic beliefs? Yes as an answer simply means that they are wrong. Will they wear makeup? Definitely, yes. Wearing makeup is a harsh contradiction with the hijab.
The airline cabin crew is not a career for everyone, especially those with such Islamist mindset. Stay at home or find another job if you are really serious about Islamic teachings.
The reality of the situation is that female cabin crew of EgyptAir is just making a show. The true reason behind their headscarf is the laziness in taking care of the coarse non-fair hair. So, they are covering it instead.
From the commercial point of view, that step does not reflect positively on EgyptAir which is widely known for its mediocre in-flight service.
The policy of EgyptAir toward its stewardess is obviously a step on the opposite direction of Singapore Airlines which unified the perfume worn by air stewardesses as a part of the brand integrity.

Date: 12 November 2012 commenting on http://www.firstpost.com/

Africa’s Gambia gets its own national airline as Gambia Bird launches A319 flights with help from Germania

Congratulations to Gambia Bird!
The extremely busy schedule makes the unenviable A319 panting almost all day long trying to catch up with a must on-time performance. The domino effect would be inevitable in case of any unexpected delay which would definitely be mirrored by the remaining flights of the day.
Monday is the most critical day of the week where Gambia Bird flies six international flights.

Date: 11 November 2012 commenting on http://www.anna.aero/