Sydney Airport Corporation’s massive shortcomings were brutally exposed this week when a magazine survey that might usually be considered barely relevant ranked it amongst the world’s worst.
While most aviation analysts are (understandably) focussing on the impact of fuel prices on the airline industry, there's a silent cataclysm underway which is reshaping the airline industry almost by stealth.
There’s nothing like a good old fuel crisis to shake out the airline industry. And for much of this year, that’s exactly what the whole industry has been going through. One of the outcomes of this has been the rapid blurring of the line between traditional full-service carriers and discount airlines.
Of all the rumours to surface in an industry in tumult, the old cliche "Singapore and Qantas are talking about merging" has to be the easiest to dismiss.
Air New Zealand's bold aim to use one million barrels of 'green fuel' annually by 2013 carries an enormous risk factor.
BA chief Willie Walsh’s predictions the soaring price of oil will kill low-cost-carriers totally misses the point.