“It’s more than just simply saying we know you’ve got a booking and therefore we’re going to issue you with a boarding pass,” said Andrew Charlton, the managing director of the Aviation Advocacy consulting firm and a former chief legal officer at Qantas, the Australian airline.
Link to The New York TimesSecond, geography has turned sharply against them. When Sir Tim Clark, president of Emirates, helped Dubai’s government to set up the airline in 1985, he was quick to spot that a third of the world’s population lives within four hours’ flight of Dubai, and two-thirds within eight. “They were in the right place at the right time,” says Andrew Charlton of Aviation Advocacy, a consultancy. “But now they’ve been caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.” A series of terror attacks in the region and a coup in Turkey last July has prompted many passengers to shun airports in the Middle East and to go elsewhere to change planes. The latest figure (from March) for capacity utilisation for Middle Eastern airlines was just 73%, the lowest since 2006 and worse than at the height of the financial crisis in 2008-09.
Link to The Economist
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