Professor Sabena's Blog

There are a number of interesting trends that I follow. At the moment I believe we are starting to see a point of saturation in the adoption...

Well the running out was common knowledge. However you might want to think carefully about signing up for the service if you travel outside ...

WAY Baaaaaak when the debate over Ancillary Services started. I made a noise about the issue of Ancillaries actually costing the Government ...

According to a study released in January 2011 from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research, those who try So...

Best to all of you. Happy New Year!

Call me old fashioned - but when I like something, it should have meaning and be relevant and something that represents a real attribute. In...

Gary Locke (who used to be the Gosvenor of the Great State of Washington (where I live) was yesterday touting the benefits of Travel and Tou...

American Airlines The vote tally was as follows: In who is the bad boy in the Orbitz dispute: AA 55% Expedia 16% Orbitz 16% Travelport 50% T...

Air New Zealand has been pretty aggressive in the Social Media space. They have also been a very innovative airline. Their Skycouch idea (or...

Fox News that well known arbiter of public taste and of course knowledge has decided to elevate its role in the world and is now redrawing w...

We have been expecting this for some time. So far there has been no formal effort. However most airlines via ATPCo have in place YQ/YR surch...

Not such good news for Travel agents as a study from YouGov and Memonic found only 15% of British travellers now use travel agents to resea...

The USA Average fare domestically is about $230 in 2009 (the last full year of data). This is in my view the lowest it will ever be. The dec...

Travel Weekly USA has a column entitled Legal Briefs penned by Mark Pestronk - a veteran Travel Agent Advocacy Attorney. In the post dated ...

I thought the Professor's readers would get a little giggle out of this. I was searching for some information and wanted the real source...

I had a look at the STR data for 2010 . This single slide is pretty self explanatory. Click the link for the whole presentation. UGH!!! Can ...

Add IBS to the list of PSS vendors who doesn't have a client. That list includes ITA and several others. IBS has now lost its first and ...

The little airline that could and did will soon be consigned to history. Another carrier who will disappear from our skies is Alaska Group H...

Finally that Ad model is starting to show some value. Ad Revenues will be about $150 million this year (2011) however the non-US revenues ar...

Dear Amazon User... (After I had just signed up for their premium service) Dear Customer... Dear Air X Flyer (after I just completed half a ...