Professor Sabena's Blog

Travel Tribe was a name used to describe collections of people who wanted to interact to share their passion for the subject of Travel. ...

In the interests of equal time - I am publishing here the Open Letter BTC Gram from the tables of Radnor PA. The background for anyone w...

Every year I play a little game - what will the final part of the year look like. Both for the economy and the Travel sector as a whole post...

While Emirates continues to rack up impressive profits, other airlines are calling foul and accusing the airline of benefiting from some d...

The continuing boardroom farce at Easyje t seems to have roped in some new blood which hopefully will bring a degree of stability to Big O...

The US Department of Justice is finally waking up from a long slumber and wasting no time in putting some teeth into the enforcement of an...

This question keeps getting asked. So have a read what InfoWorld's Cringe colum n has to say about it. And in my view (yes my 2 ce...

The Geneva based organization ATRA claims to use scientific data to rate airlines as being the safest this was provided to me by Professor...

Outspoken (and now kicked upstairs)Google Chairman Eric Schmidt delivered a public tongue lashing to Britain's education system on it...

Steve Jobs announced his exit from the management but not the soul of Apple. Notwithstanding the appalling pictures of him on TMZ (if t...

Expedia has undergone something of a transformation recently. Earlier this year it reversed a long held tenant of using GDSs for its ai...

Sabre has updated its mobile traveller study . While the study sample size is in my view woefully small and the questions leave a lot ...

I have been skeptical of the personal side of the social web. Its a lot of fun. We get badges on FourSquare. We get to broadcast to the...

Lufthansa Group IT daughter company - Lufthansa Systems (LSY) has been the subject of much speculation as to its future following the d...

I watch traffic trends. Finding what trends are possible is like a treasure hunt. One of the trends I have been watching is the decline...

Confounding just about everyone - Flight Centre has been able to record worldwide profits at another record. While sounding a loud note ...

The ever evolving web has seen so many radical changes in our social structure that it is hard - especially for old Geezers like the Profe...

OK so this may not be quite so relevant to Travel but its interesting all the same - but bear with me. Couponing seems to be all the ra...

I have this strong belief that Web Advertisers are just like traditional marketeers - you treat the customer like he is - well - an idiot ...

Its not a done deal yet but it looks like Boeing is going to go mostly Boeing. With AA splitting its big order - Boeing will get Delta a mi...