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Spinetta pris en flagrant délit de mauvaise foi
“Un an après son désormais célèbre discours devant les syndicats (“je me suis trompé sur les low cost “), le président du conseil d’administration d’Air France KLM reprend sa vieille rengaine sur Ryanair. “
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Rappelons, ensuite, que c’est easyJet qui prend le plus de parts de marché à Air France dans l’hexagone et que la low cost britannique ne touche pas de subventions et paie ses charges sociales au fisc français.
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Enfin, Spinetta le reconnaît lui même dans cette interview, si ses coûts sont plus élevés, c’est que tout son trafic est organisé autour de ses vols longs courriers. Air Inter était basé sur le même modèle que les low cos
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Le nouveau projet d’Air France visant à créer des bases de province est une forme de retour à ce modèle.”
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Le futur d’Air France, c’est de revenir au modèle d’Air Inter ? En même temps, c’est rassurant, ils savent déjà faire non ?
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Pagaille à Roissy : l’incroyable raté d’Aéroports de Paris
“L’aéroport de Roissy se remet tout juste de l’immense pagaille de Noël. Les milliers de bagages en perdition ont retrouvé leur propriétaire et l’ensemble du programme de vol d’Air France a été remis sur pied. À la demande de Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, ministre des Transports, une enquête a été confiée au Conseil général de l’environnement et du développement durable (CGEDD) qui doit remettre son rapport lundi”
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Jeudi, à partir de 14 heures, les choses se gâtent. La capacité de dégivrage des avions passe soudainement de 35 avions par heure à 10. Plusieurs sources interrogées par Le Figaro évoquent une grève de la filiale d’ADP, Alyzia, en charge du dégivrage des avions. Une version des faits démentie par l’entreprise. Le problème serait en fait lié au déneigement des aires de dégivrage. Un accident le matin à bord d’un tracteur a sensibilisé le personnel d’Alyzia qui exige un déneigement de ses aires d’intervention. Deux des quatre aires sont déneigées en début d’après-midi. Cette opération suspend le dégivrage des aéronefs durant deux heures. Les deux autres aires sont oubliées et déneigées seulement en fin de journée, provoquant de nouvelles perturbations.
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C’est à ce moment-là que Pierre Graff annonce pour la première fois une pénurie de glycol. «Nous avons été mis devant le fait accompli, dénonce un cadre de la DGAC, nous n’avions pas été alertés.» Cette annonce tardive contraint Air France à annuler «à chaud», c’est-à-dire sans prévenir ses clients, 98 vols de soirée. 48 appareils de la compagnie ont déjà quitté leur parking avec des passagers à leur bord.
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ADP dément aujourd’hui le terme de «rupture de stock». Il restait 100.000 litres sur 900.000, de quoi dégivrer encore 200 avions. L
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Social Networks to have a Massive Influence on Travel and Booking Behavior
Social networks are not only influencing the way that people obtain information and make their bookings in advance of a journey, but also provide an important channel for communications during the trip. Facebook and other social media are used during their trips by 37 per cent of international travellers in order to keep their friends and those at home informed, or to post photos online before their return. In order not to restrict this development it is important that the costs of using mobile devices abroad are easily understood, and solutions must also be found to the problem of roaming tariffs.
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Social networks are not only influencing the way that people obtain information and make their bookings in advance of a journey, but also provide an important channel for communications during the trip. Facebook and other social media are used during their trips by 37 per cent of international travellers in order to keep their friends and those at home informed, or to post photos online before their return. In order not to restrict this development it is important that the costs of using mobile devices abroad are easily understood, and solutions must also be found to the problem of roaming tariffs.
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Over the next few years social networks will become an everyday form of communication and will be widely accepted for the purposes of making reservations.
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“Mobile devices such as the iPhone are revolutionizing the travel market and are creating new openings for our industry. Now we must endeavor to make best use of this technology and to continue to develop it, because improved information and booking facilities definitely help to increase sales”,
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Although the European Union issued a “warning signal” with regard to charges in excess of 50 euros this year, so far such regulations have not been applied in countries such as the USA. ”The lack of simple and fair regulation of the worldwide use of Smartphones imposes massive obstacles to the use of online services while travelling”,
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Airports debate handing security to private contractors – National populist | Examiner.com
“But between its overextended staff and unwieldy bureaucracy, more airports are opting to dump the Transportation Security Administration and outsource security to private contractors
So far only 16 airports have made the switch –they’re all smaller facilities. But the body that governs D-C’s Dulles International is among the larger hubs mulling the ide”
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Airports need TSA approval to hire contractors
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Private screeners are required to follow the agency’s procedures and use the same technology (those backscatter scanners aren’t going anywhere).
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with a reduced role, the TSA could become more of a regulatory agency, leaving much of the daily work on the ground to for-profit companies.” (Hard data are lacking over whether contractors are more effective.)
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Reasons to reconsider flying QF partner American Airlines – Plane Talking
“Even before the news that American Airlines had interfered with the ‘black box’ data recorder on the 757 that over ran the runway at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Qantas oneworld and code share partner had entrenched its record for being variously contemptuous, indifferent to, or ignorant of its obligations to obey US safety regulations.”
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By coincidence Qantas is the only mainline Australian carrier known to have pulled a similar stunt. When a Qantas 747-400 was flown off the end of a runway at Bangkok on September 23, 1999, Qantas sent a team to the old airport at Don Muang to remove the QAR or Quick Access Recorder and smuggle it back to Australia to be downloaded in Sydney.
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The official statement from American as reported above is one of those classic denials that simultaneously promises not to offend again
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7 tips to make flying to the USA easier
“Flying to the US can be hard work. There are forms to fill in, inspections to get through, constantly changing rules (so much so that the enforcers or the rules are often not up to date) and airports mired in outdated infrastructure, unable to cope with the numbers of people coming through. For the first time business or leisure traveler I give you business traveler tip number 8. Seven tips for making flying to the US easier”
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Flying to the US can be hard work. There are forms to fill in, inspections to get through, constantly changing rules (so much so that the enforcers or the rules are often not up to date) and airports mired in outdated infrastructure, unable to cope with the numbers of people coming through. For the first time business or leisure traveler I give you business traveler tip number 8. Seven tips for making flying to the US easier
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Get off the plane fast and keep moving.
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Do not joke or look frustrated with Immigration or TSA.
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Have a hotel/address ready.
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American Airlines interdite d’enquête
“La compagnie aérienne American Airlines ne pourra pas participer à l’enquête sur la sortie de piste de l’un de ses avions le 29 décembre 2010: les autorités fédérales lui reprochent en effet d’avoir téléchargé les informations de la boîte noire avant de la remettre à leurs enquêteurs.”
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Expedia ne veut plus d’American Airlines
“Le site comparateur de vols Expedia a annoncé qu’il ôtait de ses offres toute référence à la compagnie aérienne American Airlines, cette dernière lançant une nouvelle stratégie de marketing direct visant à privilégier son propre site.
Expedia estime que la position d’American Airlines est « anti-consommateurs » car elle porterait atteinte à « la transparence des prix ». Mais la compagnie se défend de vouloir vendre ses billets uniquement sur son site AA.com, elle veut juste faire disparaître certains « coûts inutiles », en particulier les fameux booking fees.”-
Il semblerait en fait que les deux compagnies américaines, qui devraient être suivies par d’autres, cherchent surtout à éliminer un intermédiaire: car elles paient les GDS (système de distribution global) qui collectent toutes les informations pour rechercher le meilleur prix, au bénéfice des Expedia et autres Orbitz justement. Les GDS pourraient être à terme remplacés par des moteurs de recherche comme Bing (qui le fait déjà), ou Google qui vient d’acquérir le logiciel TSA spécialisé dans la recherche de voyage.
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Groups urge faster security checkpoints for frequent fliers
“As lines in the nation’s airports grow longer with newly enhanced security measures, many travel groups suggest that the best way to speed passengers through would be to create separate, faster checkpoints for frequent fliers, including business travelers.
It’s an idea promoted by the International Air Transport Assn., the trade group for the global airline industry, and the National Business Travel Assn., the trade group for the U.S. business travel industry.”
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Under the proposal, frequent travelers who submit background information prior to arriving at the airport can bypass the full-body scanners and pat-down searches. Instead, the frequent travelers undergo a quicker, less invasive security procedure.
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In a recent survey, 71% of the association’s members said they would be willing to pay to undergo a one-time in-depth security check to qualify for the faster security screening.
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But he noted that the TSA tested the idea of separate security lines several years ago in pilot program called Registered Traveler.
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WikiLeaks exposes US-French ‘war’ over jet sales
“Leaked embassy cables show that US diplomats aggressively pushed foreign governments to purchase Boeing airplanes, helping the US aviation giant in the bitter transatlantic battle with its European rival, Airbus.
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Hundreds of newly leaked cables, obtained by the US daily the New York Times, show that US diplomats have aggressively lobbied foreign governments to buy commercial jetliners built by the Seattle-based airplane manufacturer.
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The bargaining chips included not only presidential visits, but negotiations over landing rights at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and private jet upgrades.
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it was the former US ambassador, Adam Ereli, who appealed directly to the kingdom’s crown prince to overturn the deal reached between the airline company and Airbus, even though the Airbus deal was 400 million dollars less than Boeing’s offer, the cables revealed.
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The US had complained that Airbus had received “illegal help” from the EU totalling 139 billion euros since 1967. The EU hit back saying that Boeing’s financial assistance from the US government was nearer to 300 billion euros over the same period and has launched an appeal.
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Links for this week (weekly)
– January 9, 2011Posted in: Read elsewhere...
