Professor Sabena's Blog

Boeing and Airbus better ask for a new set of braces and tighten their belts. The largest block of purchasers of their products are the Chin...

It doesn’t matter which metric we use its all bad. So I will just pick on a few highlights. As we have noted for the last 3 months the downw...

So American Express has announced a deal with Delta that allows for $2Billion worth of value to the Large American Airline. Big numbers soun...

British Airways seems to be struggling with its attempts to sleep with its family members. The Qantas proposal seems to be highest on the ag...

So not content with everything else they have acquired - they are now mopping up. Only days after agreeing to acquire Austrian, German Wings...

So the Irish version of Plane Stupid - Plane Mad - had one of their chaps come and disrupt the Ryanair AGM a little while back. Here is the ...

On December 8th, at 3AM about 50+ protesters from the Plane Stupid campaign www.planestupid.com gained access to Stansted Airport's one ...

One Month With the Blackberry Bold It is a truly great machine. Having been an original adopter of Crackberry – I have had one continuously ...

So has the Professor truly lost it? What the heck is the Kipper Season. Well until today I had never hear of it. I was in a London Taxi and ...

Virgin Atlantic is not moving - well at least not for another 5 years. They are going to stay with their current hosting provider - EDS. A f...

This is a song I have been singing for a long time. Ancillary Revenues drives unhappy customers and Brand Disloyalty. So the dilemma for the...

As it is pretty much Doom and Gloom in the USA - what is the mood in Europe. Well the Professor is going to find out in Person. I will try a...

Thomas Cook's head - Manny, Fontenla-Novoa speaking prior to the meeting between Transport Supremo Geoff Hoon and TUI - threatened that ...

Lufthansa has finally made its formal bid for Austrian Airlines. The German airline intends to initially acquire the 41.56% share in Austria...

PR Hacks must be doing somersaults at Boeing tonight with the release by Flight's resident blogger of the somewhat scathing Airbus study...

I think we all want to see this end but there is a strange voyeuristic element to watching the strange happenings going on at AZ. It is like...

For a while now I have been predicting that the current 2008 round of cuts was not enough. Today at an analysts conference and widely report...

So BA having abandoned Saudi Arabia in 2005 will return at the end of March 2009 to Riyadh and Jeddah. Running 777s in 4 classes to the Capi...

You can tell when airlines are not sure what to do - they keep quiet. So it would seem it is with the Frequent Flyer Programs - they are jus...

OK so who is smoking the bad stuff, yesterday's rumour from the weekend was Etihad buying Emirates. Today its a marriage of Qantas and ...