Corporate Travel Analysis Reports For South Pacific

Lufthansa is targeting corporate sales in Australia as it implements a new joint venture (JV) with Singapore Airlines (SIA) in the Australia-Europe market. Australia is a large and strategically important offline market for the Lufthansa Group which it expects will grow as joint sales with SIA are pursued.

Malaysia's Malindo Air is preparing to launch its third destination in Australia in 4Q2017 following delivery of its first widebody aircraft. Melbourne and Sydney are both under consideration with Melbourne the more likely initial selection, followed potentially by Sydney in 2018.

Sydney Airport, welcomed (29-Mar-2017) Vietnam Airlines' new Hanoi-Sydney service with a fitting water salute as the first of the route touched down. The services are expected to deliver an additional 85,000 seats per year to Sydney and generate AUD62 million in inbound visitor expenditure.

Philippine low cost carrier (LCC), Cebu Pacific Air is showing consistent improvements on its Manila-Sydney route however is not yet ready to pursue expansion in the Australia market with additional destinations.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) will be operating a record number of flights to Australia in the latter portion of the 2017 southern winter season, following further increases to Brisbane and Melbourne.

Scoot is working on rescheduling select Australian flights to improve connections with its India and Europe network. Scoot is banking heavily on Australia connections to support the Athens service and other potential European routes, along with all its Indian destinations. However, in most Australia-Athens and Australia-India services a lack of convenient connections may hinder sales.

Lion Group's Malindo Air launched services to Brisbane in January with a daily service from Bali. While the flight originates in Kuala Lumpur, where Malindo is based, the airline expects passengers on the Bali-Brisbane leg to consist mainly of Australians holidaying in Bali.

In a keynote address at the inaugural CAPA-ACTE Canberra Aviation & Corporate Travel Summit (15-Mar-2017), Tony Carter, managing director of Amadeus, outlined a vision for the future of corporate travel which included increasing personalisation for business travellers.

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Jetstar Airways is returning to the Vietnamese market in May-2017 with a daily 787 service to Vietnam. The Qantas Group is betting the market has expanded sufficiently since its initial attempt at long haul low cost flights to Australia in 2006 to 2008 flights but potential overcapacity in the Australia-Vietnam market could pose a challenge.