Corporate Travel Analysis Reports For Europe/MEA

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Qatar Airways to shake up Canberra-Europe market

3 August, 2017

Qatar Airways will offer Canberra-Europe passengers a generally faster transit time than Singapore Airlines despite Qatar's decision to serve Canberra with a stop in Sydney. Qatar will also likely offer aggressive fares from Canberra to Europe, driving down average fares after it launches services to Canberra in Feb-2017.

Low Cost Carrier air fares in Europe continue to slide

3 August, 2017

Latest analysis from aviation consultancy RDC Aviation into air fares among Europe's Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) sector shows that average ticket prices are continuing to fall. While great for consumers, it is a very different story for the airlines suggesting that the skies are becoming increasingly competitive, or the move towards high-yield business traffic is weakening.

Air France boosts short-haul feed into SkyTeam, but not into its Paris hub

1 August, 2017

When you consider short-haul feed within the Air France business model you would obviously consider the airline's vast network into its Charles De Gaulle Airport hub in Paris. However, did you know that the European flag carrier has also been providing short-haul flights in the Caribbean for 70 years?

Expatriate demand behind Etihad Dreamliner deployment to Beirut

31 July, 2017

Etihad Airways this week introduced the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on its scheduled daily service between Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Beirut, Lebanon, a route that is underpinned by strong direct and connecting expatriate passenger flows.

Air travel ranked the most likely sector to be alienating customers

30 July, 2017

The air travel sector did more than any other to damage its reputation over the last year through poor customer service and increasing complaint levels, reports service design consultancy Engine in an updated UK study. The sector saw a 4.3 percentage point rise (to 17.1%) in customers citing them among the worst sectors for service. This was the biggest increase of the 14 sectors covered in the latest annual study by the company.

Croatia Airlines’ profit potential hit by high cost structure and LCC pressure

29 July, 2017

Reports that Croatia Airlines' long running search for a strategic partner may be returning to the top of its agenda will once more throw the spotlight on the Zagreb-based flag carrier. The carrier has delivered annual profits in each of the past four years, albeit with very thin margins, but its high cost structure, seasonality of the Croatian market and increasing LCC penetration are all putting pressure on those modest returns.

Japan Airlines banks on the value of a morning arrival as it adds to London schedule

28 July, 2017

This winter, Japan Airlines (JAL) will reinstate a second daily flight into the London, but rather than the mid-afternoon arrival time seen on all other flights in the Tokyo - London market, the service will arrive in the UK capital in the early hours of the morning, providing the Asian airline with an unique selling point versus rivals. It last operated two daily flights into London from Tokyo late last decade after it switched an existing Osaka - London flight to the capital in March 2009, but it closed in December of the same year.

Delta at heart of Virgin’s French kiss of life

27 July, 2017

US major Delta Air Lines is at the centre of a deepening transatlantic airline partnership that will see Sir Richard Branson sell his majority stake in Virgin Atlantic Airways. The airline will pay €375 million to acquire 10% equity and a seat on the Air France-KLM Group Board of Directors and £220 million of that money is being immediately used by the European joint venture to acquire a 31% stake in UK carrier Virgin Atlantic Airways.

DATA INSIGHT: Norwegian’s fledgling UK business boasts youngest fleet among European LCCs

25 July, 2017

Norwegian Air UK, the London-based operation of the fast-growing low-cost carrier (LCC), has the youngest fleet among Europe's expanding LCC sector, according to latest fleet data from CAPA - Centre for Aviation. The market analysis and data specialist's comprehensive fleet database shows the airline currently has four aircraft under its registration with an average age of just 1.2 years.

Qatar adds daily Canberra and doubles Sydney capacity: Everyone’s a winner (almost)

25 July, 2017

On 22-Jul-2017 Qatar Airways updated the GDS and inventory timetable display to show a new daily Doha-Sydney-Canberra service effective from 12-Feb-2018. The airline will operate the route with Boeing 777 equipment, massively increasing its capacity to Sydney.

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