Analysis

Airline and aviation analysis.

How to make Sri Lanka’s AirportExpress a success

Sri Lankan government’s project to create a rail transfer service from Colombo city to the Colombo Bandaranaike Airport, has turned into a loss making venture. Keeping aside the usual suspecting of corruption involved in South Asian dealings, this is a suggestion to make the system work in Sri Lanka....

Industry in Transition : Finding the Airline 2.0 – New free eBook

My new eBook – Industry in Transition : Finding the Airline 2.0 – is released with this post today. It is an eBook that is vastly different from the eBooks that I have previously written, and is both a collection of new thoughts as well as a view into...

How to Save Air India

To an outsider, it may seem as if the once proud Indian national carrier – Air India – is on the brink of bankruptcy. And there now is a real issue about the airline’s future. Will Air India go bankrupt? What made it to fall to this situation? And...

A Reply to the ABC Report on AF447

ABC News correspondents, Lisa Stark and Ben Forer, recently published a news report about the Air France flight 447 crash. You can read the article, titled “Air France Flight 447: Black Boxes Indicate Pilot Error Caused Accident” here. The report tries to make the point that pilot error alone...

48 Ideas from Seth Godin for a Successful 2011

Seth Godin is one of the finest marketers, and business advisors the world has ever known. He has written so many best selling business books, and is a different thinker and truly a genius guy. He recently joined together with Moo to write some epigrams for Side A of...

The LCC Charter

If you run an LCC, work at one, or ever hope to run one, print the following and paste it on your wall ( or anywhere else that you frequently see ) . 1. I am a Low Cost Carrier. It is my costs that need to be low....

Analysis: A320neo and What it means to Boeing

Airbus today introduced A320neo, the new engine option for its popular A320 narrowbody family. The new model promises up to 15% fuel savings and a host of other benefits. What really is the A320neo, and what does it mean to Boeing ? Let’s find out. A320neo Fact Sheet -...

What the TSA should do

The TSA needs to understand that it is in show business, not security business. A great piece well worth reading as usual, from Seth Godin – one of the greatest marketers of our time. If I am to add something to Seth’s words.. The TSA is doing a process...

Web's founding father raises concerns on open standards, Facebook and net neutrality

To coincide with the upcoming twentieth birthday of the world wide web, Sir Tim Burners Lee, the web’s founding father has voiced his concerns about the web’s current state – in a very timely article titled Long Live The Web in December’s Scientific American magazine. The key concern raised...

Defining

There is something common between all Seth Godin , Chris Anderson and David Allen . They all defined things. By defining, they gave a meaning to something – something both you and I can refer to. This defining could simply be giving a name for a nameless phenomena that...