The airline industry is notoriously volatile. The costs are high, the margins are low and airlines are exposed to a number of factors beyond their...

This will be covered in two parts – the first dealing with Factors affecting pricing and the second dealing with Revenue Management – F...

Fare Classes

There’s a common misconception that there’s a single economy fare and a single business class fare. The reality...

Freedoms of the Air are rights that states can choose to grant to each other as part of Air Services Agreements (usually referred to as Bilateral A...

Anyone who’s taken a commercial flight since COVID restrictions were reduced might have been surprised by how full all the flights seemed. Th...

One of the main product differentiators airlines have is what they offer in their cabin. Over the past decades, as the airline space has become mor...

Traditionally, when people spoke about flight lengths in the aviation industry, they classified them as short haul, medium haul and long haul. Shor...

Delays and cancellations are the bane of everyone in the airline industry value chain. From the passengers to the airport staff and even the airlin...

A few months ago I had the privilege of attending a fireside-chat hosted in Nairobi. The main guest was a friend from high school who was, at the t...

The aviation industry is heavily regulated. Most notably this is the case in the Commercial Aviation space – which is the category that most...

Leasing Aircraft has been a mainstay of the Airline industry for more than 30 years. Despite this, not many people – even in airlines themsel...

How do airlines decide when to get new aircraft? How do they decide how many to get? Who chooses what size of aircraft the airline should get? Or w...