Friday, November 07, 2025

he Professor’s Minute Minute — November 8, 2025

 

Strategy, shutdown pain, engine timelines, slow travel, inflight economics, and a payments mess.

Understand This or Lose the Plot

A must-read strategic take on airline models and where value is actually created. Critical context for anyone steering an airline in 2026.

Air52 Insights — Airline StrategyAttachment.tiff

Shutdown Starts to Bite Business Travel

Sabre data shows October air bookings dinged by the government shutdown. The ripple is moving from leisure to corporate demand.

Shutdown Dings October Air BookingsAttachment.tiff

Volaris Says GTF Woes Ease… in Late 2027

AOG relief not before end-2027, per Volaris. The long tail on Pratt issues just got longer.

Volaris Forecasts Being Clear of Pratt AOGs by Year-End 2027Attachment.tiff

Slow Travel in Kenya

An intentional, low-impact approach that swaps speed for meaning. Kenya’s slow-travel play has legs.

Eco-Path Adventures: Slow Travel in KenyaAttachment.tiff

Yes, You Can Understand In-Flight Dining Economics

A crisp breakdown of the numbers behind meals aloft. From cost drivers to trade-offs, it actually makes sense.

The Economics of In-Flight DiningAttachment.tiff

Massive Payments Fraud in Germany

A new fintech scandal breaks — and it’s big. If you touch payments in travel, pay attention.

Bloomberg: Fintech Fraud Scandal in GermanyAttachment.tiff

Quirky: Plane Weights Are Looking Up

Obesity trends ease a bit, but diabetes still climbs. Aircraft weight assumptions may deserve another look.

Obesity Falls, But Diabetes Keeps RisingAttachment.tiff

A Picasso Blue Period–style cubist landscape (1200×628) in cool blues with subtle warm accents. Symbolic elements: a layered strategy grid morphing into an airline silhouette; a calendar-type notch denting a bookings curve (shutdown impact); a long, receding engine nacelle queue for the GTF timeline; a meandering path with acacia forms for slow travel Kenya; a tray-table shape resolving into cost blocks for inflight dining; a fractured euro/payment badge for the Germany fraud; and a balanced aircraft outline with shifting weight blocks for obesity/diabetes trends. No text anywhere; at most two subtle brand-color hints integrated into the geometry.

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