Commentary

COMMENTARY: Mitigating the insider threat to aviation

Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:46:00 +0000

John Halinski

Russia has said that the downing of a Metrojet airliner over the Sinai was the result of an insider putting an explosive device on board the aircraft.

Commentary - Why America Needs NextGen

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:36:00 +0000

David F. Melcher, President & CEO, Aerospace Industries Association

Today, when we look at a US national air transportation system that in many ways is still dependent upon mid-20th century era radars and other technologies, the same message applies: the system needs to modernize.

Paul Mifsud, the Netherlands and the brave new world of Open Skies

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:14:00 +0000

The following remarks were delivered in Washington DC June 25 by IATA General Counsel Jeffrey Shane at the 2015 L. Welch Pogue Lifetime Achievement in Aviation Award dinner. This year’s Award recipient is Paul Mifsud.

COMMENTARY: Data-based personalized service drives loyalty & revenue

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:24:00 +0000

Sally is a 49-year-old mother of two, lives in an upper middle-class neighborhood and holds an advanced degree. Companies have been marketing to Sally and those like her for decades, but there’s a small problem: Sally doesn’t exist. She’s a sketch of a broad demographic – a mythological mom whose likes and dislikes are an amalgamation of data culled by market researchers and, all too often, pulled out of an executive’s….intuition.

COMMENTARY: US white paper on Gulf carriers distorts my academic report

Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:18:00 +0000

As the author of an academic research paper that was quoted a number of times in a US airline-commissioned 55-page white paper entitled “Restoring open skies: the need to address subsidized competition from state-owned airlines in Qatar and the UAE”, I would like to address a number of issues pertaining to the report.

Commentary - Perimeter Logic

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 18:12:00 +0000

By Alexander McIntyre, Emory University student, Atlanta, Georgia

Lifting the Wright Amendment at Dallas Love Field offers lessons to New York.

On the morning of Oct. 13, 2014, a new era dawned for the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex: one free of the Wright Amendment.

A Wide(ning) Gulf

Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:02:00 +0000

In the early 1970s, which was the most prominent Middle Eastern airline?

Observation Deck

Tread on Me

Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:27:00 +0000

People clamoring for used floor covering; who knew?

Observation Deck

Commentary - The Open Skies Debate

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:35:00 +0000

Lee Moak

Gulf carrier competition is not fair.

The philosophy of liberalization, with the byproduct of Open Skies, doesn’t work as intended when one side is playing by its own set of rules.

OP-ED: Response to 'US carriers should tread carefully in their anti-Gulf carrier campaign'

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:09:00 +0000

Lee Moak

In the Jan.21 ATW editor’s blog urging US airlines to “stop whining” about unfair competition from the three Gulf carriers – Emirates, Qatar and Etihad – the editor suggests that a vital US industry sits idly by in the face of these airlines’ government subsidized expansion that is inflicting undue harm on US airlines and American jobs.