Gulf Air at a crossroads

The dilemma of Gulf Air is a recurring issue facing the corrupted airline for a quite long time.
I, myself, witnessed a case about 25 years ago which clearly indicated that the airline has started to go down the tubes.
Who can imagine that Gulf Air was the national carrier of Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Sultanate of Oman?
Who can imagine that the mediocre Gulf Air is the stepfather of the award winners Qatar Airways, Etihad, Emirates Airlines, and Oman Air?

Date: 28 October 2012 commenting on http://oussamastake.blogspot.com/

Airlines go back to boarding school to move fliers onto planes faster

Why trying to invent the wheel? It is almost there.
What about following a sequence which is already in place? It is something fair for everyone. Who check-in first will board first. There is a sequence number assigned automatically by the departure control system when the passenger checks in. That number could be used as a basis for boarding the passengers.
Regarding the congestion in the aisle, restrictions should be in place to prevent those who have bulky or overweight carry on items.

Date: 27 July 2011 commenting on http://online.wsj.com/

Airlines granted more time on defective seats

How transparent!
The seats manufactured by Koito Industries are either complying with the mandatory safety standards or not. If they are unsafe, what could be the meaning as well as the potential effect of such long grace period?
It is strange that the airline industry has been worried about confronting a potential multibillion dollar price tag. Why is that? Who is supposed to pay that amount of money, Koito or the airlines victimized by the defrauding Koito?
What could possibly be the expected regulatory steps of both FAA and EASA? They know almost everything about the issue but they are not addressing the only culprit.
There was a marriage between dishonest polygamous Koito and innocent airlines. Why are we asking the innocent airlines to take care of the deformed children resulted from that marriage?

Date: 10 June 2011 commenting on http://online.wsj.com/

U.S. probe into GDSs could last months

Airlines and other providers associated with travel and hospitality depend on Global Distribution Systems for delivering their products to travel agencies and other travel sales outlets. Those clients pay GDS providers rather high for making their products available through nonbiased environment. For question marks to start wrapping that trust simply means that those clients have to think of someone else to handle the task for them, maybe a new Global Distribution System.

Date: 08 June 2011 commenting on http://www.travelweekly.com/

With deadline up, Sabre says it will not immediately bias American Airlines flights

As a rule of thumb, display biasing issue of flights and fares is not supposed to be there.
Did we forget that the whole idea of GDS is avoiding the unintended bias of its old counterpart CRS?

Date: 02 June 2011 commenting on http://www.tnooz.com/

Aeroflot renames Kaliningrad into Königsberg

This is quite unusual. The discrepancy between in-flight announcements and Aeroflot’s own website does not make any sense.
Did the cockpit crew manage, in cooperation with cabin crew, to form a contemporary fifth column?
Are they planning to re-annex the city to Germany?
Are flights between Moscow and Kaliningrad still domestic flights? or international flights between Russian Federation and Germany?
By switching to the old name of the city, do Russian passengers need entry visa to travel to Königsberg?

Date: 15 May 2011 commenting on http://www.russia-ic.com/

Deadly blast comes at sensitive time for Russia

The airport is claiming that it was the first passenger airport terminal in Russia to be certified under ISO 9001:2000.
ISO for what? For sloppy security standards?
Ironically, Domodedovo Airport spokeswoman rejected the words of President Medvedev about the responsibility of the airport management toward that serious security breach.

Date: 25 January 2011 commenting on http://www.nytimes.com/