Yesterday Unite The Union, the trade union representing British Airways’ cabin crew, began the first stage of a two-part seven-day strike against the airline.  While I am not going to delve into the politics of the strike, I do want to address the significant misinformation and massively factually incorrect press releases issued by Unite The…
Looking at the labour relations in Europe for the past few days I keep having a vision of my father walking into a room and saying “Home many airlines can strike in Europe?” then adjusting his tie, laughing and saying “No, seriously … I’m kidding…” as people stand around waiting for the punch line he’s…
15/12/2009 – British Airways Christmas Strike Looms The news dominating the airline industry the past few days is clearly that British Airways’ cabin crew has voted to begin a 12 day strike on the 22nd of December. The damage to British Airways should this strike commence may be far greater than stranding an estimated 910,000…
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 30/11/2009 – FAA Allows Aircraft With Known Engine Problem To Keep Flying Just over a year ago I wrote about a US Federal Agency responsible for protecting airline passengers failing to do the responsible thing by grounding aircraft with a known potentially catastrophic in this post: 16/10/2008 – NTSB Finds…
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 5/10/2009 – British Airways Once Again Welcomes Surfers Last August I wrote about airline fees wiping out surfers and addressed British Airways no longer allowing passengers to fly with surfboards in this post: 23/08/2008 – Airline Fees For Surfboards Wipeout Traveling Surfers? It seems that a week ago British Airways,…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 08/09/2009 – Guess who co-authored the “First comprehensive Guide to Airline Social Media strategies” …well the full headline from the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation as of right now is “First comprehensive Guide to Airline Social Media strategies released” Still taking a guess at who co-authored it? If you guessed…
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 25/08/2009 – Happy 90th Birthday British Airways! Today is a major milestone in airline history…today is the 90th Anniversary of British Airways. While the British Airways we know today was only formed on the 31st of March 1974, the airline its self can be traced back to a number of…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 23/06/2009 – The Demise Of Airline Service & The Personal Touch Today’s Flying With Fish post on the demise of airline service, and the death of the Golden Era of Flying is a detailed discussion of the success and failure of certain airlines, running about 26 minutes long…and it can’t…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 24/04/2009 – …and the winners of the top Freddie Awards for hotels and airlines are…. Last night the 21st Annual Freddie Awards for the top international airline and hotel loyalty programs were handed out at the Ft. Lauderdale Airport Hilton, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Throughout the evening I had the…
Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 23/04/2009 – iPhone ‘App’ Of The Week : Cathay Pacific’s CX Mobile No matter what opinion any flyer may have of the three major global airline alliances, one thing is clear, OneWorld alliance airlines are dominating the iPhone App technology. Back in October of 2008 I wrote about the release…
