Air France warns pilots on safety procedures

The manufacturer’s manual and operation instructions should be fully respected and strictly followed by all pilots.

The Airbus A330 operating AF447 was assumably in a perfect flying condition at the end of the assembly line. Keeping that perfect condition is the responsibility of the maintenance teams. They are supposed to handle all periodic checks of the aircraft. In that respect, field remarks from the pilots should be seriously dealt with by maintenance teams. Both maintenance teams and pilots are the human tools of any airline to keep the fleet up. Definitely, we are not expecting the managing directors of AF to check every single aircraft themselves.

Having said so, we are not excluding the possibility of Airbus to be the reason behind the June crash of A330 in the Atlantic Ocean.

Regarding the idea of having a more dependable medium for the flight information, I reached the same conclusion of having a backup system on the ground on my posting of 08JUL 2009 which can be found here: http://airlinologist.blogspot.com/2009/07/missing-black-box_08.html

Date: 26 October 2009 commenting on http://online.wsj.com/

BA all-business flight grounded by engine fault on second day

What a joke! What a bungled promise!
Did we hear about sacking someone for the job badly done?
They can make only noise without delivering something tangible.
They forgot to advertise that the service is intended for business passengers who prefer to waste their valuable time waiting at the business lounge.
Sir Richard Branson is definitely lucky to compete with such an inefficient management team.

Date: 01 October 2009 commenting on http://www.thetimes.co.uk/

Best airline branding ever? Virgin America

Yes, Virgin America offers a distinctive flight experience from/ to California. It has a brand of its own.
It is no wonder that they have received many quality travel awards in its relatively short life of about 2 years.
Its success, especially in Alaska, might be the reason for the continuous efforts of Alaska Airlines to challenge the US status of Virgin America.

Date: 10 September 2009 commenting on http://bukes.blogspot.com/

Tail of Aeroflot-Don B737 strikes upon landing at Chelyabinsk

What are we expecting from Aeroflot Don which was on the verge of going bankrupt last month?
The airline needs a complete corporate cleanup. There will be no significant improvement if thy will go on with their current operational mentality.
We have to respect the seriousness of handling H1N1 flu. However, two hits at the heads of the passengers (the hard landing and the medical procedures) apparently tell us about Aeroflot Don’s idea of customer service.

Date: 27 August 2009 commenting on http://avherald.com/

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/