Airline & Airport Strategy Interviews by anna.aero

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Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad is interviewed by anna.aero's Ryan Ghee

15th February 2012

US market underserved from Malaysia; MAS’ oneworld membership raises hopes for BA and Qantas

Malaysia’s air transport market is facing changes with the partnership between the country’s two main airlines; Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia. How are the country’s regional airports attracting new services compared with Kuala Lumpur? And which are the main network gaps to fill? anna.aero spoke to Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad, Managing Director and CEO of Malaysia Airports Holdings, in Kuala Lumpur.

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8th February 2012

Testing times at BER

The boss of Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt talked to us during the first day of operational readiness testing involving 250 volunteer ‘passengers’. We wanted to know how the new airport improves Berlin as a proposition for airlines – purely from a route development point of view.

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14th December 2011

anna.aero talks to Vietnam Airlines’ CEO about its network developments, including US West Coast

The Vietnamese market is growing fast, but how will Vietnam Airlines continue to develop its network? anna.aero spoke to the airline’s president and CEO Dr Pham Ngoc Minh in combination with the launch of flights to anna.aero’s local airport London Gatwick to find out.

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3rd August 2011

London Southend Airport’s Managing Director Alastair Welch and Head of Business Jonny Rayner talk to anna.aero

London Southend Airport will be easyJet’s next base, but in which further markets does the airport see potential? What are the benefits of having an investor that is a major company? And how does that relate to the London Olympics?

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30th June 2011

So, what’s GOL doing in GOT?

GOL spends most of its time trying to avoid slot-constrained airports but anna.aero found the Brazilian low-cost airline keen to quickly learn about the process when Ralph Anker talked to Claudio Neves Borges, GOL’s Schedule and Route Manager at the IATA 128th Schedules Conference in Gothenburg last week.

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CEO Carolyn McCall talks to anna.aero about the London Southend Airport base and the new “organic” easyJet

17th June 2011

easyJet CEO Carolyn McCall talks to anna.aero about the London Southend Airport base

Yesterday, easyJet announced it will open its 20th base at London Southend and straight away the airline’s boss spoke to anna.aero about why it had suddenly moved to the Essex seaside airport, largely overlooked since the 1960s.

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8th December 2010

30 Second Interview: Swedavia’s CEO Torborg Chetkovich

This week’s 30-second interview is with new Swedavia CEO Torborg Chetkovich. What route opportunities does she see at Sweden’s two largest airports, Stockholm-Arlanda and Gothenburg Landvetter? And how key are the regional airports to the new Swedavia strategy?

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1st December 2010

Mohamed Sallauddin bin Hj. Mat Sah, general manager marketing, Malaysia Airports, talks to anna.aero in Kuala Lumpur

anna.aero’s Ryan Ghee talked to AirAsia last week – this week it’s the turn of Malaysia Airports for the 30 Second Interiew. In Kuala Lumpur the airport operator is building another low cost terminal to replace the temporary building opened in 2006. “We’re also open to the possibility of other airlines eventually operating from the facility” Ghee was surprised to learn.

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24th November 2010

AirAsia’s Ashok Kumar, regional director, strategy, airport & planning, and Subashini Silvadas, Network Management, talk to anna.aero in KUL

In this week’s rapid-fire Q&A, anna.aero’s Ryan Ghee went to AirAsia’s Kuala Lumpur offices to talk to a room full of network planners about the new bases in Medan (Indonesia) and Chiang Mai (Thailand) and cheekily asked if the Malaysian low-cost star dabbles in over-booking.

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The A380 plans: “Our current real status” – 30 seconds with Aya Isogai, Skymark Airlines’ Corporate Planning Division

17th November 2010

30 Second Interview: Aya Isogai, Skymark Airlines Corporate Planning Division, talks about the A380s

In the first of a series of interviews which take only 30 seconds to read (and about that long to write) anna.aero talks to Aya Isogai, Skymark Airlines’ Corporate Planning Division, about “our company’s dream” for the four new A380s.

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