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The three elements of an ancillary sale

In my opinion, you need to have three pillars to make the sale of your ancillary product successful. Value Trust Impression Value – No passenger comes on board an aircraft to shop. Hence it is important that the products being sold on board convey some sort of value to...

Kingfisher to launch 3 routes to Colombo

Kingfisher Airlines, effective 1st October 2011, is launching daily flights to Colombo from Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Tiruchirapally. The flights will operate on board ATR72 aircraft. Kingfisher originally planned these flights to be operated from late 2010, which never materialized.

The Difference Between Consultants

I know of many consultants in this industry who do it solely as a way to earn money. They may show up as one man operations, but hire entire PR departments to build up their image. They may not know the difference between two aircraft types, but they often...

Now You Can Hire Me

Today I went ahead and launched Miyuru S. Consulting. Without making you tired, let me invite you to read all about it here. So, please share this news with your friends (possible effortlessly, from the above link) and give me a helping hand! Thanks for reading!

SriLankan Airlines Cargo Schedule

Since the return of its wet leased An-12 freighters a few years ago, it seemed that SriLankan Airlines had stopped its cargo operations. There was next to none marketing about any freighter flights operated by SriLankan and the SriLankan Cargo website too had not been updated in a good...

Link of Interest: The Bottleneck of Aircraft Deliveries

Addison Schonland has a great article on AirInsight about a possible bottleneck in aircraft deliveries following the anticipated big orders from Air France/KLM and Lufthansa. While talking about the usual situation in our cyclical industry – too many deliveries during the next downturn – he also discusses about the...

May Day 2011 – A Significant Day for Aviation

The May Day of year 2011 – turned out to be a day of significant importance to aviation. In the true aviation fashion, two events where pilots said “Mayday” were solved on the very day.   1. AF447 FDR memory unit retrieved The missing memory unit of the Air...

How can I improve my blog design ?

Being a WordPress geek, blog design is something that I like to tinker in my free time. While the present design on this blog looks fine, I want to take it to the next step. I would like to improve the blog in a way that helps you to...

Stop whining !

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Stop whining. Whining is not going to help you – be it in life, or business -whether you’re an individual or an airline. True, we know it could be unfair ( at least from our view) and that something is wrong. We expect the world to be merciful on...