“You can’t e-mail a hug” was an advertising slogan that I spotted recently, plastered on a huge billboard outside my local railway station. The product in question? Coffee.

On April 8, American Airlines received a single operating certificate from the US Federal Aviation Administration for American and US Airways, a major milestone in the integration of the two airlines.

Nothing is more demonstrative of the US airline industry’s dramatic turnaround than the current state of American Airlines, which has become one of the world’s best performing airlines less than a year-and-a-half after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

​Tragic and shocking as was the loss of Germanwings flight 4U9525, there are fundamentals about the global air transportation industry that have directly resulted in its stellar safety record and which must be upheld.

Sometimes it takes just one small comment to put things into perspective. For me, that comment came during Emirates’ full-year results call.

Delivery date and seat capacity are problematic for the MRJ70 in terms of appealing to US airlines.

Can airlines learn from a Norwegian library, which just has embarked on a project that will not be completed until 2114, 100 years from now?