Archive for August, 2009

How to use Twitter to Grow Your Airline's Sales – Miyuru's Guide

Can Twitter actually help an airline ? Perhaps this is a question that you recently pondered as an airline executive ? On a personal level, I had registered for Twitter back in 2008 but never used it till 2009. It was probably FlightBlogger‘s extensive use of Twitter that persuaded...

Yemenia IY527 blackbox found

As per BNO News report a few minutes ago, black box of the Yemenia A310 that crashed off Comores Is. in June has been found. This post will be updated once more information is available.

SriLankan Airlines loses $100m

Sri Lankan airlines loses Rs10bn ( 100mn USD ) Aug 27, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines group has lost 9.99 billion rupees in the year to March 2009, down from a profit of 4.9 billion rupees a year earlier as revenue fell amid a global downturn and falling...

Interview: Housam Raydan, AirArabia

Interview with Mr. Housam Raydam, Corporate Comms. Mgr of AirArabia AIR: Among all the economic turmoil, AirArabia performs very well, what is your secret? H.R: Air Arabia’s success is based on a simple promise of value-for-money travel options. Drawing upon successful strategies adopted by LCCs across the world, Air...

A Fleet Renewal Plan for SriLankan

SriLankan Airlines ( IATA: UL ) fleet is now getting a bit too old – with an average fleet age of around 12 years. The oldest aircraft, 4R-ADA ( MSN-032, the first ever Airbus A340 of Asia ), is already more than 15 years old. With every new airliner...

Introducing Aviator Free Mobile Theme

As I promised earlier, I am now ready to introduce our free mobile theme for you. Introducing, Aviator This theme features Boeing’s 787 aircraft as the background and has been designed exclusively for Airline Industry Review by Tehk7, one of the most creative theme artists. The clean lines of...

Earn Money at any Cost – SriLankan's newest sale

While collecting information for a new article that I was writing ( which should be up soon ), I noticed something very sad and unfortunate. SriLankan Airlines A330-200, 4R-ALD, MSN 313, selcal KQDP, is now available for ACMI or wet lease. 4R-ALD at Paris An ACMI lease means the...

Cutting Capacity – a necessity ?

The following is my take on cutting capacity by airlines. What is yours ? Comments are open for discussion. - – - – - “If we’re growing, we’re always out of our comfort zone” John Maxwell said. This might be why many airlines nowadays try to cut flights and...

Plane Hijack Incident in China

An aircraft has been hijacked in Xinjiang, China, state media reported. No details available at this time. UPDATE 1: It was the Xinhua news agency that first reported the news. There has so far been no other update from them since. It is not clear whether the aircraft was...

Free Advanced Twitter Mobile Mirror for professionals from AIR

Due to the recent DDoS attack on many social network sites, including Twitter – which was the worst affected, Twitter is still recovering and not accessible to all users. Twitter is still suffering from this attack and is hence blocking requests from the computers that send too many requests....