Corporate Travel Analysis Reports For South Pacific

The CAPA-ACTE 2017 Perth Aviation & Corporate Travel Summit, scheduled for 4 July, at the Mercure Hotel.

For much of this decade, Middle East aviation has been besieged by external events throwing markets in disarray. Now there is a dispute of internal making. Four countries - Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - are cutting ties with Qatar for political reasons. Local flights are being cancelled while Saudi Arabia has shut its airspace to overflights from Qatar Airways.

The much-publicised new non-stop long-haul link between Perth and London is likely to be just the first of a number of new non-stop flights linking Australia to Europe, Qantas senior executives have confirmed. The arrival of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner opens up a whole new range of routes for the flag carrier, but its management is already looking beyond the aircraft to models such as the ultra-long-range version of the Airbus A350-900 and new Boeing 777X which could allow future non-stop flights linking both Melbourne and Sydney to London in the future.

CAPA's Global Airport Leaders' Forum was hosted last month and included a variety of high profile industry leaders discussing topical issues related to aviation.

The threat of online scammers using airline names is growing more and more every day. It seems we are constantly faced with attempts at accessing our credit card details, bank details and personal information. By the misuse of fake Facebook competitions, to fake emails and telephone calls, an airline is the perfect opportunity to mislead consumers into clicking something they shouldn't. Almost everyone would jump at the opportunity for a free flight, and the scammers are well aware of this.

The United States continues to be an important inbound tourism market for both Australia and New Zealand. It seems more and more Americans are visiting our shores but how do the numbers really stack up? Lets take a look with an exclusive Blue Swan Infographic.

BITRE has released the results of Australia's International Airline Activity for the year ending Dec-2016 and for the month of Mar-2017.

Qatar Airways continues to pursue rapid expansion in the Australia market as it upgauges its Melbourne service to the A380 at the end of Jun-2017 and prepares to launch Canberra in early 2018.

The CAPA Americas Aviation Summit, which occurred in Apr-2017, delivered some of the most incredible discussions from a wide range of expert speakers.

Emirates has Jennifer Aniston; Etihad has our Nic. Now Malindo Air has Schapelle to promote it.