Virgin looking to return to profit in 2015/16 More benign capacity growth and ongoing cost reduction efforts have Virgin Australia confidently predicting clearer skies in the year ahead after handing down its fourth annual loss in the past five years. Those five years have coincided with a period of great change for the Australian carrier,

Indian government won’t regulate ticket prices Sound familiar? Come a long weekend or a holiday period and you want to drive off for a well-earned break, you can almost bet the house on the price of petrol creeping upwards. Most of India’s massive population suspect the same is true of air fares around the subcontinent.

US airlines are more innovative than you might think Despite their problems – see July issue Contrails – innovation has never been a stumbling block for American carriers. As far back as the 1980s, TWA’s Ambassador Class was in the vanguard of the push for full-fare economy seating superior to that in “tourist” economy. This

Air power and the third industrial revolution The shift from analogue to digital technology that started in the late- 1950s and gained serious momentum in the 1970s has now reached lift-off speed. Innovations based on this radical development include advanced computing, the internet, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Such is the magnitude of the change that