Victoria Moores: June 2010 Archives

Slot trading. It's always been a bit of a sticky subject when it comes to who owns what and whether or not it's completely legal.

But it seems the answer is at hand...in the form of an online shop.

Airport Co-ordination Limited has set up the Amazon or ebay of the slot trading world with slottrade.aero - which it claims is the world's first airport slot trading web portal.

"SlotTrade is aimed at making the previous 'grey market' in airport slots more open, efficient and transparent.  The slottrade.aero website allows airlines to advertise available and desired slots in a secure and confidential way, and provides a registry of completed slot trades," says ACL.

Will this kick off questions of legality? Or is it exactly what the industry needs and has been waiting for? Let me know what you think.

Here at the IATA AGM, several journalists are "Twittering" their way through the conference, including Airline Business journos @VictoriaOnAir, @TheABed and @SivaG.

If you're on Twitter yourself, check out the #IATAAGM hashtag for all the latest bite-sized updates.

Not on Twitter? Take a look at our live feed on our IATA AGM news page: flightglobal.com/IATAAGM

The Airline Business team is here in Berlin at the 2010 IATA AGM, where around 200 airline chief executives from around the world have come together to discuss the challenges the industry is currently facing.

Take a look at our scene setting video below (go on, it'll only take two minutes!)

Frankly, we as busy as a budget carrier on a tight turnaround.

-We're pumping out content onto our page dedicated to the event

-We've already produced two Airline Business Daily magazines (keep an eye on flightglobal.com/airlines where they will be posted online shortly)

-And we've filmed video interviews with some of the industry's leading CEOs (So far we've spoken with Malaysian Airlines, Thai Airways, EgyptAir, Air Malta, Gulf Air, Qantas, Kingfisher, American Airlines and Iberia, as well as the incoming IATA chairman - all these and more will be available on the video player below) shortly