Corporate Travel Analysis Reports

We often hear stories of airline flight cancellations due to bad weather and the personal accounts on the disruption caused to travellers. Weather events are a routine part of the business of flying and major efforts are made to avoid the full force or mother nature. Safety is always the number one priority regardless of the disruption it can cause.

US major Delta Air Lines says that in cooperation with its transatlantic joint venture partner Air France, it will launch the first nonstop flights between Indianapolis and Europe with the introduction of flights to its European hub at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport beginning 24-May-2018. The new daily service will be flown by a Boeing 767-300ER equipped with 25 fully lie-flat seats in Delta One, 29 seats in Delta Comfort+ and 171 seats in the Main Cabin.

The rise (or fall) of lie-flat seating is creating shockwaves of new issues for longsuffering travellers. As soon as a man is lying flat the likelihood of his snoring increases by 95%, according to recent research released by the Brussels-based Institute for Inflight Snoring and Other Loud Noises.

The 2017 CAPA Adelaide Aviation & Corporate Travel Summit took place last Friday 1st September at the Rockford Adelaide, South Australia. The event included a variety of high profile industry leaders discussing topical issues related to aviation and corporate travel.

Tourism and Transport Forum Australia (TTF) is working towards "sorting out the trans-Tasman issue" by calling for a single border management process between both Australia and New Zealand.

The Blue Swan Daily recently caught up with Association of Travel Management Companies (ATMC) Chairperson Rob Dell to discuss the hot topics impacting business travel in Australia at the moment.

After a false start last year the tiny island of St Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean will finally welcome its first scheduled air links next month when South African carrier Airlink introduces a new weekly flight connecting St Helena to both Johannesburg and the Namibian capital Windhoek. The long-distance flight will be operated using an increased gross weight version of the Embraer E190 seating 76 passengers (six in business class and 70 in Economy); the aircraft will also be used to add a monthly service between St Helena and the island of Ascension.

Many travel executives understand the power cognitive computing has to transform their industry. However, even the most advanced travel companies are only making initial forays into cognitive computing by experimenting with chat-bots and robots. This is a good starting point for much greater cognitive opportunities, says IBM's Institute for Business Value, but is just a platform to a world of further opportunity.

While there are yet few concrete example of President Trump's desire to increase the number of private sector infrastructure projects in the transport sector - and especially in the case of airports - the public and private sectors are combining in a way that the United States of America has not previously witnessed by negotiating public-private-partnerships (PPPs) to deliver new airport terminals.

Traffic data for the first six months of 2017 shows that the United Kingdom remains the largest market for passengers in and out of Poland and accounts for almost one in three European travellers departing or arriving at the Eastern European country's airports. This has been mainly driven by the growth of Low Cost Carriers (LCC) point-to-point connections between the two countries that has developed both strong outbound and inbound traffic flows.