#012 - Monday Morning Update with an interview of Patrick Menzies about the full history of South African Airways

05/10/21 • 35 min

Welcome to our Monday Morning Update on May 10th, 2021.
In today's Monday Morning Update we have an interview of Patrick Menzies where the focus is on his many years in South African Airways and how the airline came to where it is today.
There is also talks on the GSA business and if there is differences in corperate travel and leisure travel.
Our Allan Hoffery meets Patrick Menzies in a meeting room at the conference center at the Clarion Hotel Copenhagen Airport for a talk on the full history of South African Airways.
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#011 - Monday Morning Update with an interview of Henrik Schlotfeldt who is Managing Director at ST Engineering Aerospace Solutions

Welcome to our Monday Morning Update on May 3rd, 2021.
In today's Monday Morning Update we have an interview of Henrik Schlotfeldt, who is Managing Director at ST Engineering Aerospace Solutions. We will go a bit deeper into the aviation industry than normal.
We will take a look behind the scenes on what it takes to keep planes flying and how the so-called MRO industry are holding up. MRO stands for maintenance, repair and operations.
ST Aerospace was established in 1975 to provide maintenance and support services to the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF). Since then, it has diversified into various MRO capabilities for commercial and military aircraft through a number of strategic partnerships, acquisitions and investments.
ST Aerospace reportedly employs in excess of 8,000 certified engineers and administrative specialists around the world and has a global customer base that includes military forces, major airlines and freight carriers.
ST Aerospace has an office in Copenhagen and here Henrik Slotsfeld his home base as Managing Director. He travels all around the world for work and therefore he knows the industry from inside but also as a frequent flyer.
Our Allan Hoffery meets Henrik Slotsfeld in a meeting room at the conference center at the Clarion Hotel Copenhagen Airport for a talk on how the last year has been in the industry and how Henrik Slotsfeld looks at the future.
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#013 - Monday Morning Update with a talk with Peter Lawrance on his work on inflight services and products

Welcome to our Monday Morning Update on May 17th, 2021.
In today's Monday Morning Update we have a talk with Peter Lawrance, who earlier had the global responsibility for all product development, menu design, planning & operational execution for all onboard products & services in SAS and British Airways.
His last responsibility was with Etihad, where he was Head of Etihad’s Five Star culinary team and had the global responsibility for all inflight and lounge product development for the complete route network for EY worldwide.
Now he is a freelance consultant that helps airlines withing the area of Inflight Catering and Products.
Today he is the guest in our Monday Morning Update, where the theme is exactly inflight service and products. We talk about the consequence of COVID-19, what is the work about and what is the work involved to do a good inflight service and interesting products.
Peter shares examples of the introduction of Mikkeller beers to SAS, Lojröm, Ringa Apple Must that you have seen if you have tried SAS Plus or SAS Business Class.
Questions like sustainable offerings is also talked about and how this will impact the inflight service onboard.
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You can read more on Peter Lawrance on his LinkedIn profile here.

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