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[..] Read More >>
Monthly Archives: August 2009
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[..] Read More >>
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[..] Read More >>
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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[..] Read More >>
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[..] Read More >>
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.[..] Read More >>
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[..] Read More >>
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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[..] Read More >>
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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[..] Read More >>
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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[..] Read More >>