What happened to the tourism money? After visiting Lisbon and seeing first-hand the chaos the city is in, this is the only question that comes to my mind. Why are the streets dirty, why the weeds are not clean in the residential neighbourhoods, why the rubbish is not collected and why, oh why, there is a sewage plant inside the city? I guess Mr, Carlos Moedas has a lot to answer, doesn’t he?
“Please fasten your seatbelts and keep your seat upright for take-off and landing” If you are a frequent traveller I am sure you heard something like this many times. But what about when the seatbelt lights are off? What does that mean and what should we do?
Dehumanising services and using language to create abstract concepts that lead to devaluation and distancing between the service provided and the human who provides it. It a marketing trend seen across all industries where both workers and consumers or clients are reduced to abstract denominations.
“My God, it’s a woman!” is the name of the autobiography of one of Australian Aviation’s pioneers, Nancy Bird Walton. In a time when women were discouraged from having a career or even wearing pants, becoming a pilot was something considered quite remarkable!
Ethics, safety, or just reviews? What do you take into consideration when choosing your flights? We are all different and we all have different needs and standards, so when we book our flights we might have different criteria. What is yours?
Welcome to 2024! The new year is always an exciting time for everyone. We usually make plans and start fresh after a little pause. That is exactly what I did over the last 4 weeks. I have enjoyed my time off to relax and plan the new year ahead and now I am here to …
It’s the end of the year! Another year has passed, and it is now time to make a balance of the year that was always focused on the one ahead.
Helping passengers with special needs must be a priority for any airline. Facilitating the communication is part of that effort. British Airways paired with SigncodeUK in an effort to provide easily accessible announcements in British Sign Language (BSL) for Deaf or hard-of-hearing passengers.
“Bonjour” Qantas! This might be the greeting Qantas gets next year when its direct flights from Perth to Paris start operating. After its offering to London and Rome, now it’s the time for the French capital to be added to Qantas network. A partnership with WA Tourism this will boost WA tourism and allow Aussies to get to Paris faster.
Testing emissions to evaluate how SAF can be the solution to reduce aviation carbon footprint is a joint mission from Boeing, NASA and United Airlines with the support of FAA, GE Aerospace and the German Aerospace Centre. Understanding how SAF performs in comparison to regular jet fuel is the key to evaluating its benefits and setting strategies for aviation going forward.
