GLG News by Airline Industry Experts (EU)

The floating nuclear powerplant (NPP) will be an old technology in a new suit. So why build it? The answer is: it is cheap energy for a long time. Plus: on an efficiency level, Natural Gas simply cannot provide this quantity of power at such a low price. Plus: it is CO2 neutral. The idea is born out...

Is it really worth investing in a competitive Premium Service? Are these lounges used?

Necessity of security control at all levels. Governements use of terror threat to scare people. 

After the collapse of the Alitalia's sale process, with the last one of original 10 bidders having abandoned the game, it's now time for tough choices for the Italian Government. The past months showed that there is really little financial interest on the international market for Alitalia, most definitely...

Union intervention - Mismanagement - weak government The crux about Alitalia's misery basically hinges on a few straight points: Firstly, the unions basically call the shots behind the scenes. Secondly, these unions have constantly been protected by the prevailing governments - mostly of socialist flavour;...

Trucking has always been a problem in the EU. Now that the environmental concern has been put on top of the agenda, the hyperactive EU commission is seeking ways out of the dilemma. If you take a closer look, however, this problem is split west-to-east. Western haulage companies carry a much higher...

Privatisation of airports and the pros and cons thereof Alternative funding mechanisms to pay for a wholesale surface transport infrastructure scheme

- Boeing is performing better than direct competitor Airbus in the civilian market, where B777s and B787s are winning competition over the A350 and where B747ng is also promising better than A380;- In the military market, Boeing is benefiting from improvement of US military budget;- MRO business and...

. airports are traditional local monopolies;. improved competition from either new comers or reconverted sites have taken innovators to reengineer their value proposition;. state-of-the-art managerial solutions have a dramatic impact over EBITDA values;. this transtion may be easily supported with advisory...

. the industry should turn all positive in 2006 instead than 2007. the industry seems to be quite immune from terroristic threats. further consolidation might be on the road