The fight for Africa
Hundreds of years ago, the powers of the world fought over Africa and carved its landmass into many pieces which they proceeded to profit from for long stretches of time. Today, a similar fight is on the cards, only this time the would be conquerors are airlines fighting for the skies. Needless to say the...
What’s going on at WestJet?
WestJet’s Care-antee logojet by Dave Subelack Recently I blogged about the challenges facing the top brass at WestJet. In the time that has passed a couple of interesting things have happened. A change at the top Sean Durfy’s resignation announcement has paved the way for Gregg Saretsky to assume the reins as CEO. While this...
Just how big are the airline alliances?
An infographic summary of the three global alliances While staff turnover, fleet size, and destinations are constantly in flux at all major airlines (and the alliances they belong to) I think the infographic above paints an interesting portrait of the three global alliances. This picture is set to look quite different by this time next year...
WestJet – the next move
Every day hundreds of WestJet pilots face a critical choice. At decision speed (last moment at which an aircraft can stop its take-off) they must decide and commit to a course of action. As a corporation WestJet is approaching a series of critical decision points of its own and it's time for their executives to...
