Professor Sabena's Blog

Twitter has its place. I used to think that it had a clear value in certain situations but not in others. Now I am finding it very hard to s...

On any typical morning at Luton the airport bustles with people rushing for flights. However the contrast with say 10 years ago or more is s...

A great piece in the Beat this week on BA's new compensation program in the USA indicates a different tack by BA in its way to try and r...

Jetstar which is the low cost airline of the Qantas Group (heck it even says so now on some of its planes like the A330s) has taken a leaf o...

Acknowledging that that there is actually a low cost airline model - IATA has (begrudgingly) started to include LCC statistics in its report...

Interesting study out of eMarketer on Smartphone and Mobile Internet usage by Boomers. Now as I am a (relatively young) boomer despite the ...

Tim Hughes wrote an interesting piece not so long ago on the death and rebirth of first class. It seems he is spot on. The latest carrier t...

Good news emanating from Asia this week. Singapore is usually a pretty stable proxy for the whole region. It is typically imune from the flu...

I note with a twinge of sadness the passing of Cruisematch 2000. In its time it was revolutionary. Founded in the early 1980s by Pete Arnett...

OneWorld has come back from the brink of extinction that so nearly doomed its existence. Now aggression has returned to the team. So having ...

I have been pondering doing a post on the subject of the decline in the airline employment in the USA. No need ETN did it for me.... So cli...

I had an interesting time this weekend trying to get home. But while there is a story here about the value of persistence - I am really tryi...

Taking a leaf out of their customers' book - the GDS have started to slowly but surely unbundle their pricing. The old one size fits eve...

I try to go and visit the ATM - Arabian Travel Mart - every year. My team has done quite a lot of work over the years in the Gulf States (GC...

I finally got to read the report . It makes for some interesting reading. From the gist of what I have read - despite the knowledge of the d...

Recently ARC (the old Airlines Reporting Corporation) has begin to make some of its vast data more readily available for the marketplace. I...

This week I took a little detour and a few days off and went to Arizona. I got to indulge myself with some viewing of the Davis Mothan AFB B...

I have noted a few different stories about the QF decision to reduce First Class on all but 12 A380s. I note that the total cost quoted for ...

Its the weekend - its Valentine's Day so my post for today is about how much Travel Sites love their Customers. Sadly its not enough. My...

For some reason on a Saturday the US Dept. of Transportation has announced its approval of the BA+AA+IB transatlantic alliance. In a continu...