GLG News by Airline Industry Experts (EU)

The author provides some good insights on the Australian air travel scene and how he feels things have shaped up as they did over the past years. In his sumary, Qantas appears to be on the loosing stream and it seems that its management is not aware of it.

In line with commercial aviation, business aviation has seen its high time and is heading downwards. The article purports bad times are to come for manufacturers and agents alike. Their indicators are all negative, including market prices, which are declining too, as a result of lower sales and more...

Cultural differences at Airbus are being blamed for all or most its problems. Politicians in France are fuelling to the misunderstandings by loudmouth paroles, while doing nothing to solve the situation. In the end, it is the product that suffers, usually by adding delays to the production line. A costly...

Premier Power Renewable Energy, an American solar system provider has entered the European market and aims to grow quickly. After barely two years in Spain, the company is pushing towards growth, trying to cash in on the governments' incentives. However, the company concedes that a move into Germany...

Ryanair hits financial problems for the first time in over a decade; faces full year loss Many 'remedies' open to question CEO beggars belief with recent comments Proposal to buy Stansted Airport goes beyond 'PR'    

LOL could technically stand for London O'Leary Airport, if MOL gets his way and secures ownership of Europe's biggest low cost and charter airport and one of the UK's most important airports. The woes should be with the 31 other airlines serving this airport and some are in heavy competition with Ryanair...

Consolidation in Europe is continuing. Air France and KLM started it for fear of loosing out in the end and Lufthansa has gained control of Swiss and brought some sparkle back to it. The other major in Europe who has been silent on the merger/takeover front was BA - much due to lack of a suitor. Enter...

Midway Airport privatisation getting into difficulties Important 'first mover' transaction but... ...taking place at the wrong time? Lease value may lose 10% or more

BMW'S H7 is the only hydrogen-powered luxury car in production today. This fuel technology presents yet another avenue to be explored. BMW has been left alone to go this route, as most others believe in the fuel cell - as does the author of this article. The mere fact that he presents this car only...

Demise of anothe long haul business class airline Oil price related and business plan related Only a handful left but there are still new entrants to come