Utter rubbish salesconsult,
With the current outcome the minister is still on track for now...
You must be kidding if you remotely assume that the simplistics of demand, supply, price and income are responsible for the performance of the airlines/ industry. And it's not just infrastructure and a robust yield management either. I'm sure you are aware that it is being skewed by a lot more than direct economic factors. A little research and it will becomes obvious that "latent" direct and indirect aids, grants, subsidies and other protectionist policies that are firmly entrenched in both the UK and USA aviation systems do not allow "purely" market forces to dictate industry outcomes. You probably know why these two took over 7 years to complete their negotiations after BermudaII of 1978.
African countries ( note: not the carriers) just did'nt have the balls, and the right strategy ( hence "blindfolded whimps") to take the foreign competition with equal gusto.
Arik and Air Nigeria appear to be still groping in the dark, but by jove we hope to see them get their act together and kick***! And the only sensible thing the Nigerian government should do is enable them do it rather than cave in to any "forked tongue" entreaties Cameron has concocted on behalf of the empire.
Last edited by DRPAM007; 16th Nov 2011 at 21:41.