anna.aero took the opportunity to speak to the CCO of the fast-growing low-cost airline Norwegian; Daniel Skjeldam. What will the airline do with the many aircraft it has ordered? What is happening with the long haul expansion using 787s? And is there a theme to Norwegian’s latest European route launches?
At the Lisbon base launch, the anna.aero fan and easyJet CEO Carolyn McCall set aside time to speak exclusively to anna.aero about the new base and the airline’s overall network plans.
Interviewing an airline boss on a train may seem a bit strange but it’s how anna.aero recently got to chat with Vueling’s CEO during FrenchConnect. How much is the airline planning to grow this summer, what’s happening in Toulouse, and what does Alex Cruz think of what some of his former employees are doing at Iberia Express and Volotea?
In conversation with anna.aero, Zagreb Airport’s Tonci Peovic explained his high hopes that the Aéroports de Paris-led consortium behind Zagreb’s future will see low cost, national carrier and other-carrier all developing routes in harmony.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
