A Look at Air France’s New Carbon Emissions Strategy
Air France has launched its new carbon emissions reduction program, “Air France ACT.” The Airline is the latest in a recent stream of airlines and airports to release a strategy with interim [...]
How airlines and airports can dramatically increase engagement on their Facebook Pages through one simple action
Editor’s Note: After an excellent response to the previous post on How KLM is winning on social media in Europe, here’s another guest post by Peter Claridge of Unmetric, an exclusive [...]
By Marco Serusi
“Crowdbranding”: The Top 10 Crowdsourcing initiatives by Airlines
Yes, I said it: branding! The benefits of crowdsourcing, and its effectiveness for problem solving, are well-known. The power of the social web is being harnessed by airlines more than ever (in [...]
Airlines go on a crowdsourcing binge – co-creating their brands with travelers
On SimpliFlying, we’ve spoken about AirTran’s EveryFlight.com, and more recently about Cathay Pacific’s Art of the Dessert contest, among others. What we see is a trend that [...]
How can an airline brand survive a disaster? Lessons from the Air France 447 crash
As many of you have probably heard on the news, Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-203 (A332), disappeared a couple of nights ago, flying to Paris (CDG) after departing Rio Di Janeiro (GIG). [...]
Ryanair’s New Fee To ‘Check In’ & The Real Cost Of Some Low Cost Carriers
Note: This is a cross-post from Steven Frischling’s Flying with Fish blog, and the original can be read here. Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is a self employed photographer, and founder of [...]
Will online communities by airlines help their brands take-off?
AirFrance-KLM recently launced Bluenity, what they claim as the “first social network for travelers” by an airline. But as Scott Carmichael pointed out in his article at Gadling, Lufthansa was [...]
How does a pilot strike affect the Air France and KLM brands (and what can be done about it?)
… If you haven’t already heard, all pilots in France are going on strike yet again this weekend. It almost seems like a futile attempt at getting a long weekend for themselves. That means, [...]
By Sidd
Will Delta and Northwest merger bring back the glory of Pan-Am?
On 11th August, the pilots of Delta and Northwest agreed to the proposed merger between the two airlines, smoothing out the way for a new world’s largest airline to emerge. What does this [...]
Is business-class travel going extinct? Part 2 of 2
With all-business falling from the sky like flies, the discussion today explores whether all-business class travel on full-service airlines has any future.
