Airlines in a Crisis

The board of SAS a traditional networks airline with a service, is about to pick a new CEO and thereby indirectly deciding on what kind of airline they want the company to be in the future.  Al Baker the boss of Qatar airways wich is a 35% investor in IAG the parentcompany of BA commented in an article in the Sunday Times yesterday that the management of BA under Cruz leadership lost sight of what made BA. It became a penny pinching airline that where selling food instead of serving food. Is that what SAS owners wants with their airline. A low fares competitor that instead of competing with route network, connections and non-quareling service sees price as their most important factor. In that case they will get plenty of competition in the Scandinavian market with Wizz, Norwegian, Ryanair and newcomers Flyr and long haul Norse all ready for a race to the bottom. However I doubt all Scandinavians look only to price when it comes to picking their mode of air travel. Plenty of people ...

We find now a number of airline chiefs actively working against different governments regarding their CoVod19 prevention activities. Some even go so far as stating or encouraging that some rules like quarantines won't be followed. Today O'Leary of Ryanair is reported to have said that people can go ahead and book because the from today UK government policy of mandatory 14 day quarantine on return from abroad will be abandoned. Well we all knows what happens to money paid to Ryanair for travels one after all won't be able to perform. They are very difficult to get back within any sort of reasonable timeframe. Should these chiefs be free to sprout whatever they want with their considerable media power. There is a thin line between expressing ones personal opinion and suggesting that others to break the law. This is not really about free speech but about already wealthy people for personal financial gain encouraging others to behave illegally. Time for some fines or time b...