Victoria Moores joined Air Transport World as our London-based European Editor/Bureau Chief on 18 June 2012. Victoria has nearly 20 years’ aviation industry experience, spanning airline ground operations, analytical, journalism and communications roles.
Victoria began her aviation career in 1997, working in airline ground operations in the UK and Belgium for British Midland International. She returned to the UK in late 2001 and took on the role of operations analyst for Bombardier Flexjet Europe, gaining experience in the business aviation sector.
In 2003, she joined Reed Business Information as an aviation journalist for its Flightglobal titles. After six years writing for newswire Air Transport Intelligence, Victoria became Features Editor of Airline Business magazine in spring 2009.
Most recently Victoria was General Manager Communications for the Association of European Airlines (AEA), an industry body which represents the interests of 34 major European network carriers. In this role, she was responsible for directing the association’s media relations strategy.
Victoria holds an Air Transport MSc from Cranfield University and a business degree from The University of Derby.
It’s tough when you are a small carrier, fighting for survival in a constrained home market, looking on with envy as neighbors Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways place multi-billion dollar new aircraft orders. But Raja Azmi, the charismatic CEO at flynas, is hoping to position his airline in the big league using experience he gained with low-cost giant AirAsia. This was enough of a challenge to lure him back from early retirement.
"Which market is the basket case? It’s Europe,” Chris Tarry, principal at UK-based consultancy firm CTAIRA, told ATW. “We have gone from Europe being top of the class in 2007 and 2008 to being bottom since 2009. I think we’re in for much more of the same. The economic outlook is still not great; we’re getting some mixed messages at the moment.”
