The June/July edition of LARA is here and it’s our biggest issue of the year! 🎉 We’re celebrating our 40th anniversary in this issue. Inside you’ll find a special where we reflect and some of the big topics of the past decades. We’ve also featured some key industry voices and airline CEO opinions on what the next few decades will bring. Apply for your complimentary subscription here ➡ https://ow.ly/Nhw950SlQQ3 In this edition… 🛫 Operator Profile: As the national carrier of the Faroe Islands, Atlantic Airways is a small but vitally necessary airline that connects its small population to the rest of Europe. 🛬 Landing gear, wheels and brakes: Aircraft landing gear, wheels and brakes have an easy time in cruise, but from extension to retraction it gets a lot tougher. 📶 Ancillary revenues: With solutions available to meet the data needs of travellers and provide airlines with another avenue for revenue and engagement, Emma Kelly looks at the eSIM. 🌍 Route planning: Gerrard Cowan speaks with industry experts to learn the latest innovations in network planning and the development of optimal city pairs. 👨💼 Leadership profile: Building on a legacy. Roland van Dijk, co-CEO of Fokker Services Group, is optimistic about future growth. 📅 Through the decades: 1980s to 2010s. Lucy Powell looks back on the magazine’s four decades of industry coverage to date, with the help of some of LARA's past editors. ✈️ The airline perspective: What are airline executives’ perspectives on the coming decades? LARA speaks to four previously featured senior leaders to get a glimpse of their priorities for their airlines. ⭐ Four for 40: LARA sat down with some of the leading companies and figures in the low-cost and regional aviation sectors to reflect upon their history and what the next few decades might bring. Special thanks to: Editor: Lucy Powell Contributors: Bernie Baldwin, Alison Chambers, Gerrard Cowan, Alan Dron, Chloe Greenbank, Ian Harbison, Emma Kelly, Alan Lim, Joshua Ng and Richard Schuurman. Atlantic Airways & Jóhanna á Bergi (cover image) Fokker Services Group, Roland van Dijk eSIM Go & Bill McKimm Dubrovnik Airport & Viktor Sober Symbiotics & Emma Akhurst CPsychol Airbus & Victor Shigueoka 重岡晃一 Embraer & Francisco Gomes Neto & Daniel Galhardo Gomes ATR & Zuzana Hrnkova Tecnam Aircraft & FRANCESCO SFERRA Textron Aviation & Juan Manuel Escalante Porter Airlines Inc. Loganair Limited airBaltic Cebu Pacific Air Regional Airline Association (RAA) & Faye Malarkey Black European Regions Airline Association (ERA) & Montserrat Barriga Andrés #A320 #turboprop #MRO #sustainableaviation #CRJ #aircraft #routedevelopment
Excited to see this edition finally published! Congrats on 40 years, LARA team!
Fantastic issue team LARA! 40 years is an incredible achievement. Looking forward to what's to come!
Satu Dahl
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Congratulations on 40 years Sister publication!!! 😊
Great article Emma Akhurst CPsychol! Thanks for sharing our thoughts Lara Magazine.
Journalist and editor with a focus on aviation, Africa and a penchant for primates.
2wDelighted to have contributed to this 40th anniversary special of LARA. Congrats to the team both now and then for all the hard work that has gone in to producing a much revered industry title over the last four decades.