I’ve done several off-blog items on the subject of international airline alliances lately. Here they are:
The Airplane Geeks podcast with Max and Court
A guest post on the Cranky Flier
An IAG podcast with Addison Schonland
Posts Tagged ‘network airlines’
International airline alliances in the spotlight
Posted in Daily Departures, tagged competition, congress, network airlines, regulation, world on April 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Expand Heathrow
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, competition, europe, network airlines on December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Financial Times reports on government findings that one-third of London Heathrow Airport’s passengers are on connecting flights, which magnifies “[t]he importance of the role that connecting passengers play at the UK’s busiest airport [that] has long been a source of conflict among campaigners for and against a third runway.” The issue is a hot [...]
“Wild times”: Southwest’s Gary Kelly announces service to MSP, discusses challenges in airline industry
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, budget airlines, business, delta, faa, network airlines, northwest, open skies, southwest, travel, usa on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
DALLAS — Southwest is well-positioned in tricky times for the airline industry and will launch new service to Minneapolis-St. Paul in March 2009, Southwest Airlines chief Gary Kelly said today. The Twin Cities are the first new Southwest market since 2006, and the first planned service will be nonstop to Chicago’s Midway Airport.
The announcement of [...]
Thought leaders on aviation trends
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged budget airlines, business, consumer advocacy, delays, network airlines, open skies, southwest, travel on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
DALLAS — Our lunchtime entertainment here at Southwest headquarters was provided by a panel of five airline industry thought leaders who offered their thoughts on the future of the industry. Rick Seaney of FareCompare.com kicked off the discussion. Some of the trends he noted include a “decline in human interaction” through the increasing utility of [...]
“Stop Oil Speculation Now” won’t make oil cheaper
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged budget airlines, business, congress, energy, network airlines, regulation on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to resist the airline lobby’s link bait for their Stop Oil Speculation Now website (google it if you care), but the airline CEOs’ letter calling for passengers to lobby Congress for tighter regulation of oil futures “speculation” deserves some attention. The aviation blogosphere sees through this as the bad proposal it is (see [...]
Deregulation “clearly, definitely” a good idea: an interview with Alfred Kahn
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged congress, history, labor, network airlines, regulation on July 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Sorry for the light posting around here. I’ve been working on some major writing projects that will appear over the next few months. In the course of one of them, I had occasion to chat with Alfred Kahn, the chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the late ’70s and the “father of airline deregulation” [...]
Of course IATA wants to have it both ways
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged budget airlines, iata, network airlines, regulation on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The International Air Transport Association, the worldwide trade association for airlines, issued the following demands at its summit in Istanbul this week.
Governments must eliminate archaic rules that prevent airlines from restructuring across borders.
In view of existing fees and charges, governments must refrain from imposing multiple and additional punitive taxes and other measures that will only [...]
Shame as a public policy tool
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged business, history, labor, network airlines, regulation on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I’m reading Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines, an on-the-ground account written in 1990 by reporter Aaron Bernstein about the events surrounding Lorenzo’s ill-fated ownership of Eastern in the ’80s. (FYI: Bernstein takes a clear pro-labor angle that should be noted.) In his discussion of military man, former astronaut, and Eastern [...]
Don’t kill the short hop
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, business, network airlines, transit, travel on May 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ryan Avent writes:
I like the comment that short flights congest airports as much as long ones. I’m of the opinion that a carbon pricing scheme would give a boost to rail travel over both driving and short-haul flying. But a potentially more important factor in some regions might be the runway congestion charges under consideration. [...]
ATA conference call on airlines’ environmental performance
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged ata, congress, energy, environment, network airlines, regulation on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions correlate nearly exactly, U.S. airlines have a financial incentive to improve their environmental performance. According to officials at the Air Transport Association, the national trade group for commercial airlines, environmental performance continues to improve and other initiatives are on deck.
Speaking in a conference call with several aviation bloggers, [...]
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