Professor Sabena's Blog

The UK and Singapore governments have now signed their much heralded fully open skies agreement that comes into effect coincidently on the s...

Heathrow's slow decline into a third world airport may come to an arresting end by 2020. This news comes none too soon as the airport fa...

In somewhat perverse logic the UK Tour Operators are cheering the fact that England lost 2-3 to Croatia in football yesterday. Clearing the ...

As an avid watcher of the contortions that various airlines go through to get you to be both loyal and a frequent purchaser of any old stuff...

One of the longest aircraft on the planet suffered a nasty mishap last week. 10 people were injured 3 in the cockpit seriously. Lets hope th...

Perhaps a kinder gentler PCW this year at the Omni Resort in Orlando. Sure there was the usual Philipalooza extravaganza and some nice touch...

The new ECAC rules are due to be announced this week. There is much anticipation of the content. In advance of this - various travel groups ...

The new ECAC rules are due to be announced this week. There is much anticipation of the content. In advance of this - various travel groups ...

In a story initially put out by the WSJ and then syndicated and picked up by such papers as the Seattle Times - titled: Can This Marriage Be...

One the largest and most venerable of US Travel institutions has been sold to the Australian mega chain - FlightCentre. First reported at Tr...

I have just returned from this excellent conference. I moderated a panel on Evolution vs Revolution. For the first time in many years, I was...

"Exciting Changes at Southwest Airlines!" screams the headline of the WN Email blast to some its customers this week announcing so...

Easyjet's decision to participate in Amadeus andGalileo is meeting resistance from the very people it is suposed to benefit - the TMCs. ...

Throwing out the pure LCC (Low Cost Carrier) model in favor of the HVC (Hybrid Value Carrier) has been on the cards for some time for Stelio...

Diller has decided he needs a few pennies. So he is spinning out 4 of the remaining businesses in IAC (InterActive Corp). So far the Travel ...

To celebrate the re-launch of the UK service, (GIG-GRU-LHR) Gol CEO Constantino de Oliveira "Junior" announced that they had secur...

Far be it for us to pick on another business sector unless there is a significant impact on ours. Well today I am mad and getting madder abo...

The outgoing, recently ousted, Boeing 787 Dreamliner program manager Mike Bair has publically pointed the finger at the much vaunted Global ...

Well not quite but the numbers are pretty good. Outpacing both domestic and international regular growth by a factor of at least 2 - Hertz c...

The final round of choices for the perennial life supported Italian Airline seems to be approaching. However the final choices seem to be so...