Showing posts with label airline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airline. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Should You curse Malaysian Airlines ?

You are planning to fly XYZ Airlines and just 2 days prior to your flight, one of the airplanes of XYZ Airline crashes, killing everyone on board.

Will you still fly with XYZ ??
The answer should be a most probable YES, why ? because in 100% of the cases, the airline, is basically not responsible for the crash. Lets see how, 

A big airlines purchases a lot of aircrafts worth millions and billions of dollars. Even if one of the aircraft is down, it means it is going to be a total loss for the airlines. So, no airline would ever want any of its planes to crash down, because more than public safety, they would value the worth of their aircraft more. And when they take care of the aircraft, they are indirectly taking our care too.

Recently, 2 of the most advanced passengers jets of Malaysian Airlines got down, one was lost and the other was hit by a land to air BUK missile. Did Malaysian Airlines want to kill people ?? Certainly not. Does Politics came in between Air Crashes ? Certainly not. Then why are people still blaming Malaysian Airlines.

I checked the flight rates online and turns out that routes from from anywhere to anywhere within Asia are cheapest with Malaysian Airlines and still people feel, there might me another one, who knows.

Despite living in a rational world, I fail to understand why, people have stopped flying Malaysian Airlines. I saw a lot of images online where practically, the load factor for Malaysian Airlines is extremely low. 

More than a decade of awesome services have been overlooked by people and they are coming to conclusion just because of these two incidences....

Friday, August 22, 2014

Vistara Airlines

The Tatas have come up with another airlines venture, the Vistara Airlines. Recently, it came up with AirAsia India, which was a low cost carrier with operations focussed in Southern India. This time a premium segment airline, focussed in the northern India with Delhi Airport hub has been planned.

The aviation sector in India is not a reliable arena, considering that only 1 airline in profitable. In India, services are not respected a lot, and considering a premium airline to be launched is a kind of weird decision, because, all flights in India have a maximum duration of 2 hours, which is quite less.

Vistara Airlines ha 20 A320`s on order which will be delivered within 5 years, after which it`ll be eligible to begin overseas operations. Initially, this airlines will plan to connect Delhi with all the major tier 1 and tier 2 cities.

It would be interesting to see how this airlines fares considering that in the past the Tatas have had multiple failed bids to acquire Air India.

Monday, July 28, 2014

THE BIG THREE

Everyone is talking about the big 3, so what exactly is " THE BIG THREE " ?

The big three are actually the trio which is giving sleepless nights to all the major airliners of the world. The trio is none other than the Legendary:-

1) Emirates Airlines, operating from Dubai International Airport
2) Etihad Airways, operating from Abu Dhabi Airport
3) Qatar Airways. operating from Hamad International Airport



These three airlines are probably the last entrants in the airline business. But the three have a lot of things in common and also kind of the some illegal advantage. They are the chief Gulf operators, they are located at the cross-roads of the world. Every impossible connection is possible from this location. Almost 75% of the world population is 7 hours flying distance from these airports. Last and not the least, the land under these location produces a lot of oil. Almost an ideal setup for any airline.

Emirates is building a whole new airport the Al Maktoum International Airport, which is slated to be the busiest airport.
The Abu Dhabi Airport is rapidly expanding with new terminal buildings and additional developments.
Qatar recently moved up to a new airport, Hamad International Airport.

The big 3 are at the start of their career, actually the real damage is going to show up when all their airport work in full swing, and the other threatening thing is their fleet, all of them have a lot of heavy bodied flights on order, these 3 alone combined will be having a fleet of over 1100 aircrafts and majority of them being twin aisle, ultra long haul flights.

The Arabs know what they are doing, and they are really smart putting their money planning their country`s future.