Professor Sabena's Blog

For many airlines in search of new revenue opportunities – the alliance game has played out and the incremental revenues are becoming less a...

The USA has finally qualified for ADS making the world’s second largest market inbound open to the world’s fastest growing source market. Ge...

The USA has finally qualified for ADS making the world’s second largest market inbound open to the world’s fastest growing source market. Ge...

The big keep getting bigger. The sea change that occurred over the last 18 months in Europe in distribution is now starting to bear fruit. T...

Well they postponed again - but now there is a reason. LH is back interested. SQ is denying everything and even BA is having a look. The pri...

As if further proof was needed - the world is a crazy mixed up place. So LH is spending some of its cashpile to buy into jetblue and create ...

Well sorry folks I dont have the $200K for the seat - nor the $3 million for the satellite launch cost lying around in my pocket - but it se...

The battle ground for the love of LCCs and HVCs has just become a little more interesting. As regular readers know we are strong believers i...

Forgive the lack of writing dear readers… pressure of real work and – well also some time out has caused the absence from the blogosphere. S...

Its been on the cards for ages... no longer subtle - the airlines are now going to devalue the currency. With high load factors we have been...

This is attached as a direct copy from the email sent by BTC- Business Travel Coalition: Parliament Must Close the Dangerous Parent Carrier ...

Sacre Bleu... Well I guess someone has to do it. But if we are to judge the TSA by its effectiveness IE because there has not been another a...

Survey by California based J D Power and Associates Independent Travel Web Site Satisfaction Study, now in its third year, measures the sati...

No lesser authority thant Foreign Policy magazine has weighed in on the subject of the worst airport. You can read the full text of the arti...

Despite a last valiant attempt by TPG to get BA to exercise its option and raise its shares in Iberia - the effort seems to have led to noth...

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...