AviationPodcasts

Our brain trust consists of Michele McDonald of Editor of the Travel Technology Update, Henry Harteveldt co-founder of Atmosphere Research and Timothy O'Niell-Dunne managing partner at T2Impact. The brain trust discusses the news of a start up airline in the US, PeopleExpress, and the evolving distr...

India has the world's fastest growing air travel sector - yes faster than the Gulf. Year on year growth was 17%. Imagine that in the EU or North America? The airlines would be doing back flips of joy. But in India you have near total financial chaos. Air India is a political plaything that has no...

Yes its true. The Obama Administration’s proposed tripling of the passenger security tax is on the table. Will Congress go along? After all there is a real need to cut the deficit. As one can imagine this new tax is not going over well - the ATA is reacting by speaking to one and all. As ATA VP...

Teal Group's Richard Aboulafia took an unusual way of looking back at 9/11. Richard describes how the impact of 9/11 has played out. His view is that the sad day did not create the long term impact one might have expected. Yes, it was a horrible day. But looking back, the damage to the economy and a...

If you're a very frequent flyer this story is for you. Ed Pizzarello is co-founder of Star Megado and runs a site called Milepoint.com. Go to the site and sign up as you listen to how much fun a travel geek can have...

We spoke with CAPA's Will Horton today about the Qantas results which were announced today. They were pretty good and although these were as guidance had indicated, it was great to see the company come though a pretty nasty period and make a profit. We go on to discuss Jetstar Japan, the as yet unn...

We had a 19 minute call with the team at Bangalore Aviation talking about the news of MAS and Air Asia doing their share swap (not great news for travelers used to low fares), then we went on to discuss the Star Alliance's dissing on India (and Air India). Finally we spoke a bit about the 787 which...

India may have a vibrant economy but the airline sector is as hampered as any by the Indian State. Guests Devesh Agarwal from BangaloreAviation.com and Vinay Bhaskara from The Gate on Flyertalk.com discuss the state of the Indian airline industry. Despite India being the home of world class entrepre...

Social media meets hotel revenue management: Opportunities, issues and unanswered questions. This is a paper published in the Revenue Management Journal. All three people listed below published he paper and we spoke with Kelly McGuire...

When you fly, and your seat has access to a seat back screen, we bet you visit the moving map at least once per hour. Many people simply tune out of the awful movies and reruns of TV sitcoms to just watch the moving maps between doing whatever else they can, like dozing or listening to music...