Corporate Travel Analysis Reports For South Pacific

Scoot has taken delivery of its first 787 configured for long haul flights and is using the aircraft on Australia routes ahead of the Jun-2017 launch of services to Athens, its first true long haul route.

Late this year AirAsia X will celebrate its tenth anniversary in the Australian market - and overall. The Malaysia based long haul low cost airline commenced operations in Nov-2007 with a flight from Kuala Lumpur to the Gold Coast and has steadily grown over the last decade to become the third largest foreign airline in Australia.

Air Canada recently announced (04-May-2017) the expansion of its international network with the introduction of a seasonal Vancouver-Melbourne service, the first ever direct, nonstop service from Canada to Melbourne. The service will operate four times weekly between 01-Dec-2017 and 04-Feb-2018 with Boeing 787-9 aircraft, and is timed to optimise connectivity to Air Canada's network across North America, as well as internationally from Vancouver.

Qantas Group hosted its Investor Day 2017 on Friday 05-May-2017, which reviewed its preliminary trading for Q3FY2017 and highlighted future key initiatives. Blue Swan has pulled together all the key highlights from the day into an easy to read snapshot for your reference.

AirAsia X is planning to resume services on the Kuala Lumpur-London Gatwick route -perhaps as early as late this year if it decided to acquire 777s but at the latest in 2018 as it takes delivery of new A330-900neo aircraft.

Whether it be to advise new products or services, promote fare sales or purely a simple branding exercise, airlines invest a great deal of money into ensuring you notice it. But are the campaigns really delivering? The airlines definitely seem to think so.

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

Australia has been the testing ground for the long haul low cost model over the last decade and the market has benefited from a disproportionate amount of long haul low cost capacity. Australia still accounts for more than 20% of global long haul low cost capacity even though the sector continues to expand and make inroads in other regions such as Europe and the Americas.

This month the Blue Swan Daily road tested the US based ultra-LCC, Spirit Airlines, on two sectors - Newark-Orlando and Orlando-Houston. For those travelling to the US and needing to get around domestically, or to/from Latin America, Spirit can be a good (and inexpensive) option, as the carrier offers a surprisingly extensive network.

On 2-May-2017, the Blue Swan Daily reported that Sydney Airport Group decided it would not develop and operate the Western Sydney Airport (WSA), Badgerys Creek. We said "let the games begin" and they certainly have.