Study Group: Online Travel Agency and Industry Experts (EU)(?)

At the end of the process, only AF-KL and tiny Air One have remained as the alternatives for the Italian Government to go ahead with Alitalia's sale. It is however quite doubtful that any of the two ones are really good partners for the troubled Italian carrier, given their historical strategic fit...

- profit warnings from European LCCs leaders (Ryanair, Easyjet, Air Berlin) evidence increasing difficulties in shareholders' value generation in the cluster of the airline industry; - on the other hand, smaller players, like Vueling, are expanding their losses; - consolidation looks as reasonable to...

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...

- 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...

Following the planned merger of MyTravel and Thomas Cook, the remaining two large European leisure travel Groups, TUI and First CHoice are also to merge. This was probably inevitable following First Choice's surprise abandonment at the altar by its two suiters, MyTravel & Thomas Cook a...