With over ten years of experience writing for the travel trade, Ed was appointed Editor of Routes News in early 2016 and has overseen its relaunch with a new look and stronger content offer for the network development community.
Speaking exclusively to Routesonline during the air service development forum in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week Jose Napoleon Duarte said airlines should start passing on significant reductions in ticket cost to consumers following the fall in the price of oil to about $30 a barrel. And he urged all sides of the industry to use the Routes events as a forum to bring the issue to a head and start discussing ways to solve it.
Airlines and cruise companies need to work closer together if they are to defeat problems common to them both. That was the opinion of Terry Thornton, Senior Vice President of Itinerary Planning for Carnival Cruise Lines at this year’s Routes Americas Strategy Summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
