Zambian President Banda foreign trips justified

Are we supposed to believe that EgyptAir would operate 4 flights a week between Cairo and Lusaka for the sake of President Banda and his visits?
The reality is that EgyptAir will operate those flights because of some commercial benefits. It is true that Zambia will benefit from the EgyptAir’s network but EgyptAir’s benefits outweigh Zambia’s.

Date: 27 December 2010 commenting on http://www.ukzambians.co.uk/

The consolidation of the LCC market

The airline business model does not congenitally have geographic restrictions on its own. Airline companies are free to choose their operational models as long as they can successfully operate. The so far success of Air Arabia in applying the LCC model does not necessarily mean that Sama can comparatively succeed applying the same model.

Sama’s management was fully aware of the applicable rules of the Saudi Civil Aviation from the beginning. Considering the fact that there was no significant change in those Saudi rules, Sama’s management team was gambling by mainly depending on the possibility of changing those rules.

What was the plan of Mr. Bruce Ashby, the CEO of Sama by searching for more finance? Was he planning to use the same management culture in utilizing the new funds? Was he simply planning to eventually run out of cash again?

Date: 30 August 2010 commenting on http://oussamastake.blogspot.com/

FAA issues cockpit-window safety mandates

Bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy!
The relation between fires/ smoke incidents and certain cockpit windows had been established in 1980, why did Federal Aviation Administration wait for about 30 years to issue a safety mandate?
Moreover, what could be the reason for more time before issuing a maintenance directive for Boeing 747?
Were they just waiting for that safety issue to be publicly highlighted last May before going ahead with a revised safety mandate?
Questionably, the latest directive affects the forward-looking cockpit windows, rather than all cockpit windows as if side cockpit windows are for decorative purpose only. 

Date: 13 July 2010 commenting on http://online.wsj.com/

Royal Jordanian… Exciting times

The times are rather critical than exciting for Royal Jordanian. RJ is currently taking care of those measures to improve its position among its competitors.
Seemingly, Mr. Hussein Dabbas is in favor of merging with another carrier. However, he did not reveal which of the two carriers would benefit more from the potential merging.
Anyway, it is somehow unusual for a royal princess to be on the lookout for a suitor.

Date: 26 June 2010 commenting on http://oussamastake.blogspot.com/

EgyptAir to Copenhagen

The anticipated Egypt Air’s flights will make the carrier the only Full Service Carrier (FSC) operating between the African continent and Scandinavia
Considering the fact that Egypt Air canceled its flights to Copenhagen in 2004 due to poor operating results, and the fact that Egypt Air will be the only legacy carrier linking Copenhagen and Cairo nonstop, are we in a position to assume that Egypt Air is quite sure about the potential viability behind the comeback?

Date: 01 June 2010 commenting on http://newsodrome.com/

Egypt Air Airbus A340-200 SU-GBO landing at KIX (Osaka)

Smooth landing! However, pilots are supposed to land that way. Otherwise, we will be talking about an air hostess landing the aircraft instead of the captain in case of emergency landing.
What is more remarkable is catching that particular landing on tape. Good job!

Date: 04 April 2010 commenting on http://www.youtube.com/

The “Jetstar-isation” of Qantas is not over yet

The fact that Impulse Airlines started to operate as LCC in June 2000 after acquiring its fleet of Boeing 717 (the joint production of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas), makes us believe that Qantas decided to consider low cost operation when it purchased Impulse Airline in November 2001. What happened in 2004 is that Qantas only re-branded its Impulse into Jetstar.

Date: 23 February 2010 commenting on http://simpliflying.com/