Count US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx among those willing to have an open mind on removing ATC from FAA.

It’s easy to forget that words do not translate the same way for everyone.

Sally is a 49-year-old mother of two, lives in an upper middle-class neighborhood and holds an advanced degree. Companies have been marketing to Sally and those like her for decades, but there’s a small problem: Sally doesn’t exist. She’s a sketch of a broad demographic – a mythological mom whose likes and dislikes are an amalgamation of data culled by market researchers and, all too often, pulled out of an executive’s….intuition.

As the author of an academic research paper that was quoted a number of times in a US airline-commissioned 55-page white paper entitled “Restoring open skies: the need to address subsidized competition from state-owned airlines in Qatar and the UAE”, I would like to address a number of issues pertaining to the report.

It’s been 10 years since the first Airbus A380 took flight. To mark the occasion, Airbus has created a video starring their COO, customers John Leahy (and the A380, of course, but this is really John’s show).

Have you ever considered how dated some everyday words are? In a car, you have a “glove compartment” and a “parcel shelf”, dating back to a bygone era. Are country-specific airline names similarly dated?

With news today that airberlin is leaving the Association of European Airlines (AEA) in the spreading dispute over what is “fair” competition by the major Gulf carriers, the question is whether Alitalia will be next out of the AEA door?

What is your response to the report commissioned by American, Delta and United that alleges Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways are receiving billions of dollars of state subsidies?