Turbulence ahead for airlines despite oil price drop

Source: Channel News Asia

PARIS: Airlines are still in for financial turbulence despite a recent fall in oil prices, with many at risk of posting major losses as the cost of their top input remains historically high. "If fuel prices remain at a reasonably low and stable le ...
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LLG Travels: Hamster Impression

Source: Liberty London Girl

As I wheeled my little hand luggage cart well past midnight through the terminals at Singapore Changi Airport for a third time last night, it occurred to me that the way in which I travel could quite possibly drive someone e ...
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Moscow’s Airport Battle: How The Kremlin Is Moving To Wrest Control Of A $5 Billion Facility From Oligarchs

Source: International Business Times

Photo: Andrey Belenko When Moscow was the capital of the Soviet Union, Domodedovo was its smaller, mostly domestic airport. The international flights of state megacarrier Aeroflot and of the few Western airlines that flew to Moscow took ...
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More global carriers to spread wings in India

Source: Economic Times

MUMBAI: The rough weather in the aviation industry in India doesn't seem to have deterred ventures by foreign carriers. Not just Mumbai and Delhi, but Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Amritsar have also attracted more or new flight ...
Full article at: Economic Times  More like this  1 day ago, 7:41pm CDT

Copa Holdings Keeps Flying Along (COPA, RYAAY, DAL, UAL)

Source: Investopedia

The airline got off the ground in 1947 when a group of Panamanian investors along with Pan American World Airways began flying three Douglas C-47 aircraft in the domestic market. In the 1960s it began serving ...
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One Mile at a Time - My Updated Analysis on What a Mile/Point is Worth: Credit Card Points

Source: Boarding Area

With the introduction out of the way, here are my valuations of Membership Rewards, Ultimate Rewards, and Starwood Preferred Guest points. Yes, I realize SPG points aren’t technically “credit card points,” though I still consider the ...
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Craftsman of recipes by Sanjeev Kapoor

Source: Gulfnews

He's flying to the US on President Obama's request tomorrow," whispered a member of Indian celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor's entourage, moments before he arrived at Options, his restaurant in the Dubai Convention Cen ...
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AirAsia premier dishes out the red cards

Source: Flight International Blogs

Niall O'Keeffe, managing editor of sister title Flight International, sends this report: Few were spared when jovially combative AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes addressed Airbus's Innovation Days event in Toulouse yes ...
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Five days in a learning nation — Andreas Schleicher

Source: The Malaysian Insider

MAY 25 — I had always been interested in Asia’s success story of Singapore, that transformed itself from a developing country to a modern industrial economy in one generation. Last year, I had the opportunity of a visiting pro ...
Full article at: The Malaysian Insider  More like this  2 days ago, 7:04pm CDT