Category Archives: Regional Development

Cheap Pizza…

“You can make a pizza so cheap, that nobody wants to eat it” [Gordon Bethune, former CEO of Continental Airlines] Being asked about my sanity to invest into Join!, the start-up of an airline network, this article is about “cheap pizza” or why I still think it is a good idea to start a regional [...]

Crisis? What Crisis?

German Tourism Association DTV reports a record year in German Tourism1, German Airport Association ADV reports a passenger record2 – the same news reaches us from all over the world… Crisis? What Crisis? Airplus3 and American Express4 published their outlook for 2012, expecting a stable market, more meetings, but increasing cost for air and accomodation… [...]

German Word 2012: Stress Test

2011. Euro-crisis is my personally most disturbing issue of the year. “Stress test” has been selected “Word of the year” in Germany. And it covers more issues… Stress test 1: Fukushima We have just one planet. I personally was “pro atomic energy”, as we did not have many alternatives. Now we have them, solar energy [...]