Weekly Roundup Friday 13 August
Good morning I'm writing this variously in airports as I travel down to Auckland for the next twelve days. Needless to say, it was not possible to interact with airline personnel without encountering some nonsense …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 6 August
One of the interesting claims made by airlines when they were regulated was that they couldn’t operate their services effectively with more than about a 55% load factor, for fear of having occasional full flights and having …
Dinosaur Watching Roundup Friday 6 August 2010
The airlines are always quick to blame external factors for their problems. High jet fuel prices. Depressed economy. Whatever. On the face of it, this sometimes seems fair. But then you see two airlines come …
Miscellaneous Roundup Friday 6 Aug 2010
A visit to the Mouse has just become even more expensive than before. Walt Disney World has raised the price of a one-day one-park ticket up to $82, and with their more expensive multi-day tickets …
Security Roundup Friday 6 August 2010
These days everyone has a video camera, right? For many (most) of us, either our cell phone doubles as both a regular camera and a video camera too, or our digital camera can also take …
Weekly Roundup Friday 30 July
I hope you are settling in to the new newsletter format. One more explanatory note. The 'as it happens' express mailings and the daily summaries give you details of articles as they are written/released during …
Dinosaur Watching Roundup Friday 30 July 2010
More evidence of a return to boom times for the airlines. IATA reports that world scheduled airline passenger traffic rose 11.9% in June, compared to June 2009 while cargo traffic rose a massive 26.5%. Flights …
Miscellaneous Roundup Friday 30 July 2010
The biennial Farnborough Air Show has now concluded (it operates in alternate years, taking turns with the Paris Air Show in the other years), and as is customary, both Airbus and Boeing chose to announce …
Weekly Roundup Friday 23 July 2010
Wow. What a roller-coaster ride of a week it was. The conversion to the new newsletter format ended up with us losing 2,000 readers. Surprisingly, most of these losses came from people who presumably didn't …
Dinosaur Watching Roundup Friday 23 July 2010
It is boom time for the airlines again. Rather like the biblical times with periods of feast alternating with periods of famine, even the tight economic times at present are not interfering with a roaring …
Miscellaneous Roundup Friday 23 July 2010
I wrote recently about Boeing's latest 20 year prediction/projection for airplane sales. At the time, I was surprised to see Boeing so dismissive of sales of smaller regional jets, projecting only 1920 to be sold …
Security Roundup Friday 23 July 2010
A staff sergeant in the Maryland Air National Guard drove his motorbike at speeds way in excess of 80 mph down I-95 in Maryland. Unfortunately for him, he zoomed past a state trooper in an …
