Corporate Travel Analysis Reports For Asia

We may have read books and watched films on how viruses can mutate and quickly spread from one single host to billions of people in just a short period of time. Now, we are now watching this live as the coronavirus that was initially claimed to be controlled and limited to the Chinese city of Wuhan, has now spread further across China, and thanks to growing air connectivity, across the world.

This year The Blue Swan Daily will feature some of the leading airlines, airports and country markets for air travel. Here, using the extensive profile insights available to CAPA - Centre for Aviation members to deliver a data snapshot on Wuhan Tianhe International airport, the main air gateway to the Chinese city identified as the source for the current novel coronavirus which it is feared could become a global health crisis.

A big question mark remains over the validity of ultra long-haul air travel. New, more efficient and longer-range airliners now mean that you can effectively fly up to 19 hour missions. But, just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should!

As fuel costs, the economic slowdown and intensified competition continue to affect the aviation industry, more airlines are turning to alternate sources of revenue in order to increase profits and stay afloat. AirAsia, known as an innovator in the field, is focused on expanding its non-airline businesses with an aim to become a travel and lifestyle platform as well as an airline group.

We may only be just over two weeks into the new decade, but there are already a number of factors impacting corporate traveller welfare. Medical and travel security risk services company International SOS had highlighted towards the end of 2019 the likely be the top disruptors to the mobile workforce in 2020, but it is already providing new guidance.

Alongside the CAPA Asia Aviation & Corporate Travel Summit in Singapore in Nov-2019, the CAPA Asia Pacific Aviation Awards for Excellence were presented. Among them, the airport 'stars' from the region were rewarded.

There has been a huge imbalance in China's outbound and inbound markets, a situation that has meant many western airlines have struggled to make air connections work outside of the largest of mainland Chinese cities. That has seen Chinese airlines become key partners as airlines seek valuable connecting feed to support the origin and destination flows.

The year has ended with a number of additional hotel project confirmations, the most notable among them being plans by Dusit International to expand its China presence with two new hotels in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province and Marriott International signing a deal with Grupo Elipse to bring its Moxy brand to Mexico City.

Some of the major factors to influence the travel and tourism sector in 2019 will remain among the biggest threats for the coming year, according to risk management solutions expert WorldAware.

Scoot, the low-cost arm of the Singapore Airlines Group, launched four new direct flights between China's cities of Changsha, Fuzhou, Kunming and Wuhan between the end of May-2019 to early Jul-2019. With the new flights, Scoot is now one of the largest foreign low-cost carriers by number of destinations operating into China, with a network that spans 22 destinations in Greater China.