Monthly Archives: March 2012
Global study identifies trend-setting travellers´ online shopping behaviour and future motivations
Amadeus: • “Empowering Inspiration: the future of travel search” highlights that for the destination, shopping and booking process, consumers in emerging markets are more frustrated than their developed country counterparts due to information overload and a lack of confidence that they … Continue reading
Filed under Aviation
“Crazy” JetBlue Pilot Charged for Midair Drama
JetBlue Airways captain, Clayton Osbon suffered from a ‘medical episode’ shortly after departing New York. Flight 191 was bound to Las Vegas and had to be diverted to Amarillo, Texas after the passenger start running around the airplane screaming. Passengers … Continue reading
The World’s Largest Arms Importer: India
India has increased the defense budget by 17.63% from the previous year. The total sits at $40.44 billion for the year 2012-2013. This growth in budget is needed to modernize the mostly Soviet-era equipment owned by the armed forces. … Continue reading
Aviation EU ETS: Repercussions
Ever since the European Union decided to include the aviation sector in their emissions trading scheme (ETS), the airlines, aircraft manufacturers and foreign countries have been voicing their distaste. The EU needs to choose their next move carefully when facing … Continue reading
Is the Ex-Im Bank causing an Aviation Bubble?
The “Export Import Bank” usually helps foreign customers purchase American goods in countries where there aren’t adequate capital markets. However, the bank went from helping countries like Rwanda to helping airlines such as Emirates, owned by the UAE government, that … Continue reading
Filed under Aviation
Space travel impacts eyes, brain
Washington: A study of astronauts’ eyes and brains shows that they are affected after a long space stint. This includes flattening of the rear of the eyeball, bulging of the optic nerve and changes in the pituitary gland and its … Continue reading
Filed under Aerospace
Transsexual Flight Attendants?
PC Air, a Thailand base carrier (no surprise here) went on a highly publicized recruiting “stroll” to hire transgender cabin crew to promote equality. To read more about the “katoeys” working as flight attendants, please click here. The recruitment drive … Continue reading
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Should fat passengers pay more?
I would like to share an article written by Peter Singer, a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne and a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. In this article, he wrote about how overweight passengers should be charged more. … Continue reading
How a blogger took down the TSA Body Scanners…….
This link will take you to a video made by a blogger who is against the use of TSA body scanners. The video exposes a major flaw in the TSA body scanners that was once pointed out by a senior … Continue reading
India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation, a boon to aviation *UPDATED*
Not only does the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) facilitate the growth of the aviation industry in India through heavy taxation, they care about the environment to an extent that they dwarf the EU ETS. The Ministry of Civil … Continue reading
