Boeing’s board today approved the decision to officially go ahead with the 737RE. The airframer reported that it has received 496 commitments for the new upgrade from five airlines. Boeing pormises a 4% lower fuel burn over the A320neo. It is however yet to identify the future production facility...
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 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.
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...
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!
Every so often we come to hear about bringing back the beauty of flying, and about making air travel a commodity (specially in Asia). But is doing both of this at the same time really possible? To bring back the so-called beauty of flying, we have to go back...
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...
An Egyptair Boeing 777-200ER aircraft that was being prepared to a flight to Jeddah from Cairo, caught fire at the Cairo international airport today. The aircraft had about 300 passengers, all of whom were safely disembarked according to the airport authority. The fire fighter teams had successfully contained the...
An Asiana Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter, operating flight OZ991 from Seoul Incheon to Shanghai Pu Dong has gone missing. The aircraft reported problems en route and decided to divert to Jeju (IATA:CJU). The aircraft lost contact with the radar eventually and its last known position was about 100km Southwest...
American Airlines (IATA:AA) today placed orders for a total of 460 narrow-body aircraft ( 260 firm, and 825 with options) in the history’s largest aircraft order ever. The airline also launched the yet to be named Boeing’s conceptual future narrow-body re-engine aircraft. The total order numbers are - 130...
