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SriLankan Airlines in the context of the country’s financial meltdown
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Whither the national airline? With the country embroiled in a financial meltdown of unprecedented proportions, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, Parliament confirmed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the nation’s eighth Executive President by a clear margin. One of the many challenges facing the new President is the future of the state-owned national carrier, SriLankan Airlines. A perennially…
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A380 in line service – written and published in 2010
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A38O in Service-One Year and Counting by A Double-Decker Bus Driver (In Airways, December 2008 & January 2009, the author described the Airbus A380 training program: in the classroom, simulator, and ‘hands-on’ flying. Now, with the first year of line flights in his log book, this captain discusses the techniques, requisites, and his experiences and…
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MH370 – the search must continue
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MH370 – six years on it is still a mystery Media frenzy over the disappearance of the Boeing 777 is reaching a peak again, as it does annually. SKY News Australia has just released a two-part documentary seeking to explain their viewpoint to the public. Using a number of ‘experts’ including Tony Abbott (who was…
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MH370
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Malaysian flight MH370 – the mystery continues This column was published in the Daily FT on September 2, 2019. With the sixth anniversary rapidly approaching, a follow up piece will be published soon. The disappearance of MH370, a Boeing 777 flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8th 2014, continues to baffle investigators five…
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Emirates Falcon Operations
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Falconry With Emirates This story begins at the Dubai Air Show of 1991. Originally published in Airways magazine in 2010 it was resurrected from the archives by Roger Thiedeman, who was Assistant Editor at the time. It is also, in part, a tribute to Jim and John; Jim Jacobs one of the “Falcon 4”, and…
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Covid-19
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COVID-19 and the effect on the airline industry The effects of the Coronavirus, now named Covid-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), has already had a numbing effect on the airline industry. Sadly, it appears that the worst is yet to come. SARS in 2002 Readers who remember the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS –…
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The Dakota – a tribute to the aircraft that changed aviation
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The Douglas DC-3 ushers in a new era Aviation in the United States was on the cusp of major change. Thanks to the US Post Office’s airmail initiative in the 1920s, airlines had found they could operate at a profit. But they were almost entirely reliant on air mail. Flying passengers alone was not commercially…
