Etihad’s Hogan says “Learn from the British”

New competition in global air travel must not be stamped out by the entrenched interests of the legacy carriers, said James Hogan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, who delivered the 2015 Brabazon Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London yesterday. Hogan said the global industry should learn from the British, one of the first markets to embrace true competition and one in which innovation and new approaches could still be seen. Hogan said that air travel, which contributes so much to global trade, was stuck with a regulatory system which limits consolidation, competition and consumer choice.