Professor Sabena's Blog

On my flight from Europe to the USA – I noticed that Delta has announced “seasonal suspensions” of service. These include the following rout...

According to several sources DL will announce in next few weeks a substantial initial order probably exceeding 100 aircraft of the A320 NEO ...

The reverse brain drain has started More than half of a survey of 1000 Indian residents in the USA said they will be going home SOON. The i...

As the short haul LCC marketplace matures - we are not seeing many new airlines start up. But the long haul LCC market continues to baffle m...

The team at Travelport have hit back at the American Airlines lawsuit and as expected have asked for a summary dismissal of the action. A go...

Lufthansa's brave Italian experiment has sadly bit the dust. Sensing an opportunity to pick up traffic from the then floundering Alitali...

The bad news for agencies continues to come in droves from the US market. While traffic continues to show declines for the agency community ...

Ash Cloud Mania sweeps the tabloids and Sky News . This time the airlines are emboldened by the stunt last year by British Airways then CEO ...

A great post by Chris Elliott in the Washington Post . In this post he argues succinctly that in a heavily regulated industry - less regulat...

In just a short while Apple has re-defined the essence of the SmartPhone device with the iPhone. Now just 4 years old, the iPhone has change...

Hipmunk Blog

As part of a new social history series presented by Melvyn Bragg, the BBC would like to hear from people who worked in the package holiday i...

AA GAG order comes off May 15th. More specific data on US OTA declines in air sales in first quarter become available. Some players are down...

Chris Kroeger, Sabre's pointman in the battle with AA - has started their campaign to get the agencies to start pushing Agencies world w...

So despite being told point blank by the DoT that they do not want to regulate Ancillary Services by the GDS, ASTA and BTC persist in their ...

At the Open Travel Advisory meeting in Las Vegas this past week Henry Harteveldt from Forrester showed that Q1 numbers were down 1.6% in ter...

Starring Steve Jobs and Larry Page as the evil villains. With Cameo roles by just about everybody. This major disaster movie should rival ep...

So this is just two pictures - is this a trend?

I am not in favour of personal attacks on anyone. However, I feel somewhat obliged to defend the honour of the blogger community against per...

OK I did say that I thought this would come out in the end and that March would be the tell tale month for the online agencies. Have a look ...