Sama; Another Sad Story of Saudi Aviation Industry

The Saudi low budget Sama Airlines is suspending its operations in the Kingdom starting today until further notice. Should this be a surprise? I would say: No, it was expected! The whole scene of civil aviation industry in Saudi does not look that good. Whether we are talking airports or airliners, It is a mess, [...]

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It is Time To Dance

The videos you are about to see have been around the Internet since the beginning of the year. However, I’ve just got the chance to see one of them via an email that my sister sent me. And let me tell you; beside having fun watching it … I am impressed  :) Now, we all [...]

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See You in Court

A Saudi businessman is suing Saudi Airlines after purchasing an ill-equipped aircraft (Arabnews). I thought at first that he was suing the Airlines because of a missed important meeting or over a lost investment opportunity caused by their well known off-time scheduling. But hey, everyone has his own reasons!! The point is that this piece [...]

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Saudi Airlines; I’m Not Impressed

So Saudi Airlines just signed five privatization agreements (link); I do not know why I am not impressed by this! As a summary, these are the five agreements: Privatizing the core aviation unit. Establish a new ground service company. Financing its new fleet of Aircrafts. Manage its IPO (initial public offering) of its catering company. [...]

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Ignoring Your Customers

Here is an interesting question asked by Gill Corkindale in her HBR blog; does your company’s reputation really matter? She is arguing that some big companies in certain industries do not really care about customer services! Despite regular customers complains, such companies are keeping their lousy performances and customers are still coming back. The blog post is [...]

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Who Says Camels Can’t Dance?

In the title of this post, I am mimicking the title of the infamous business book ‘Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround’ by Louis Grestner. The author was the chairman of the board and CEO of the well known international giant IBM from 1993 up to 2002. In this book, he is [...]

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Advertise, no more!!

  No matter how much money some organizations are budgeting for their advertisement, it won’t work and they better keep it for more rewarding plans. This occurred to me while watching the new commercial of Saudi Airlines.  It is really sad to see some big companies lose all their sense of direction and start stumbling [...]

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