Corporate Travel Analysis Reports For Europe/MEA

The current global health pandemic "is by far the biggest impact this industry has gone through," said Alex Cruz in his evidence to the UK Parliament's Transport Committee on the coronavirus implications for transport this week. The negative impact of Covid-19 is not something we haven't heard before from airline bosses.

Just like at any restaurant on the ground, ensuring that you have enough food to serve all your guests with their preferred menu is a major dilemma for airlines. Get it wrong and not have enough of a dish and you have an unhappy customer; have to much and you face the issue of food wastage and additional costs - an economy aircraft meal costs on average around USD11, while a business class meal is around three times that price.

This year the Corporate Travel Community (CTC) 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 at where they sit today in the Covid-19 impacted world, we look at Teesside International Airport, which has become the smallest facility to have a regular non-stop flight into the UK's London Heathrow hub.

Many airports around the world were congested before the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic as the rapid growth in air travel levels put added pressure on ageing infrastructure. The massive decline in travel levels that we seen this year have helped these facilities breath, but new requirements to support health and hygiene protocols and permit passenger spacing across buildings mean we may be set for a even bigger capacity crunch as travel recovers.

Commercial flights have resumed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after an agreement was made to normalise ties in a major diplomatic breakthrough. The agreement of 13-Aug-2020 was brokered by the United States and will see the Jewish state suspend, at least for now, plans to annex the West Bank.

The travel, tourism and aviation industries in the EMEA region witness policy and upper level changes on a daily basis. It is important to not only keep tabs of these organisations direction, but to also monitor changes in executive branches to see the wider picture of the travel market. The Blue Swan Daily will keep you informed of these movements each month, with a full wrap of the key changes in the EMEA market, while also looking forward to key appointments announced for the month.

Right now it is hard to accurately see months, weeks, even days ahead and that is a major hurdle for the travel and transport and hospitality industries. The uncertainty of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in remains a heavy dark cloud over the path to recovery. As recent examples across many parts of the world have shown, the Covid-19 crisis could seem fully under control, but just days later travel bans, quarantines and lockdowns are back in force.

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, we deliver a data snapshot on Nigeria, where the government has now permitted the reintroduction of limited scheduled international services.

This year debuting a new virtual format due to the current environment, the Australia Pacific Aviation Summit brought together the aviation community not just in the Pacific, but across the globe this week with more than five hours of amazing content. Here's just some of the key insights from the virtual event.

Nine months ago we entered not just into a new year, but also a new decade. The aviation industry had seen some of its strongest years in the latter stages of the 2010s and global travel was climbing a record peak. The 2020s were projected to continue that performance, but with a close eye on sustainability and delivering a better managed future for all. What 2020 has delivered has been a shock out of left field.