Air Travel

Airports generate revenues in a variety of ways to pay for operational costs (staff, utilities, etc.), fund capital investments, pay for capital borrowing costs, and in the case of private airports, pay a return to investors. Airport revenues are usually classified into one of two main categories – aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenues. And, in each […]

Malaysia Airlines is infamous for two very tragic events in 2014 – one remains a complete mystery with the cause still unknown and the other was an act of international aggression against the Malaysia Airlines aircraft. Whilst we can’t ignore these two tragedies, they do need to be put into context as two unrelated and

It’s true that in the past Air France has had a somewhat checkered reputation when it comes to safety. During the late 1980s, it suffered a couple of fatal air crashes. Those were followed in 2000 by the Concorde disaster at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport which signaled the demise of the supersonic jet’s services.

Airports are complex parts of a nation’s infrastructure, not just in terms of what goes on there each day, and how many interfacing components there are that make an airport operate successfully, but also in terms of their ownership models. There is no single ‘one size fits all’ ownership model applied to airports around the

Qatar Airways has a very good safety record. In its 28 years of operation, it has never had a fatal crash. Excluding events such as turbulence, there have been a few Qatar Airways accidents, but none of these resulted in injuries. I’ve flown Qatar Airways between the UK and Asia quite a few times, and

Emirates has a relatively good, but not perfect safety record. During its 37 years of operation, it has suffered one crash-landing; and while all 300 people on board survived, a fire-fighter died trying to put out the aircraft fire that erupted following the crash. This accident happened in 2016 and was Emirates’ one and only

A while back, I booked a flight with Turkish Airlines from Dubai to Vienna. I was excited to be trying out their A350, 787, and visiting their lounge in Istanbul for the first time, but unfortunately, I caught COVID-19 and had to rearrange my trip. As part of that, I called all of the airlines

Frontier Airlines is a major American low-cost/low-fare airline headquartered in Denver, Colorado. It was founded in 1994 and has grown rapidly to now serve more than 100 US domestic and international destinations. When it comes to low-cost airlines, some people equate low cost to unsafe. Well, in my view, this is not a fair comparison to make.

As a British Citizen, I’ve flown on British Airways aircraft quite a lot, both long-haul and short-haul. I don’t have any concerns or worries when I fly with British Airways, and I think British Airways is a safe airline to fly with. In the article below, I explain why this is the case and hopefully