Corporate Travel Analysis Reports For South Pacific

What are the key ingredients in matching product with market needs? Is it Customer service, reliability, prices, connectivity? These are all essentials, but they often find themselves competing for priority. In today's online world, a seemingly inevitable pricing race to the bottom often characterises airline strategy. Pricing is frequently the most prominent feature for consumers and, for airlines cost reduction is continually a strategy driver. This makes catering to the corporate and business traveller a challenging proposition.

The topic of low cost long haul is a major buzz in the aviation sector as airlines take advantage of the efficiency of new generation airliners to replicate the successful short haul model into the long haul arena. But will it succeed and is now the right time for its evolution?

Corporate travel managers, increasingly frustrated with traditional approaches to sourcing hotels, are slowly supplementing their programmes with newer, dynamic systems, according to research from the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE), underwritten by BCD Travel.

It is a popular refrain that there has been no new runway added in the UK since WWII - although many unused and underused airports have been reactivated. Across the world, similar stories abound - it has taken Sydney nearly 50 years to decide to build a new airport - although major exceptions like China, the Gulf, Turkey and Mexico do exist.

Australia's Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) released (12-Oct-2017) its Oct-2017 Domestic Air Fare Indexes. The report shows Australian domestic fares are up across all categories including:

The Blue Swan Daily brings you a monthly wrap of the key start-up activity for Sep-2017, including two key launches:

The 4^th edition of Egencia's Business Travel and Technology Survey has revealed surprising differences in the perceptions and confidence levels of global business travellers on the impact of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) on corporate travel.

Australia's Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) released the results for international traffic to/from Australia for Jul-2017. The results show a 3.9% year-on-year growth of passengers to 3.5 million and a 3.1% increase of flights to 17,157.

Malaysia Airlines' newly acquired fleet of A330-200s could emerge as a lifesaver for the Auckland-Kuala Lumpur route.

Each month the Blue Swan Daily brings you a round up of the key news stories and information related to the corporate travel world.