2013 › April

Air France’s request can’t be of much consequence to the manufacturer: Airbus is working through a record number of single-jet orders and breaking ground on its first U.S. assembly line.

Walsh has been spending time with heads of the Middle East’s thriving airlines and he's leaning toward their strategy of investments over alliances. His musings are theoretical now with EU regulations limiting action.

Lots of activity in the low end of the market, as technology systems are a relatively recent phenomena. WRI wants to be the scaled player in it and will continue to buy. Next it will likely look at mobile plays.

Foursquare has been morphing to become more of a local discovery and recommendation engine with its latest relaunch, and despite slow growth will have enough time now with this money to extend its life for a while to come.

A great campaign from Expedia UK, made even better with smart media placement, akin to the native advertising formats that are being created and debated about in the digital world a lot these days.

Such are the strange hopes of the digital advisory committee formed to built out the future of Thomas Cook. Hard time deciding whether this is a parody, or just an enlightened state of self delusion.

Airlines may be attached to the idea because of the additional revenue, but it will add confusion to the buying process as well as provide logistical hurdles at check-in and demands for better cabin configurations by flyers who pay more.

This symbolizes everything that is wrong with packaged tourism, sanitized away from the realities and daily lives of the locals. And yet, boycotting these countries, including example of Burma before it started opening up, only adds to economic misery of common people.

To be honest, Etihad has already done a significant job redrawing the world's new trade routes and serving as a model for how an airline can be successful by competing on something other than price.