Corporate Travel Analysis Reports

Every week, CAPA - Centre for Aviation, produces informative, thought provoking and detailed market analysis of the aviation industry. With supporting data included in every analysis, CAPA provides unrivalled and unparalleled intelligence.

Hong Kong Airlines plans to further increase capacity to Australia in 2018 during peak periods and is hoping to work more closely with tourism authorities to support more flights during off peak months.

Procurement consultancy firm SimPPLY, recently held a welcome event for its new Chairman, Paul Menzies at the Australian 18 Footers League Club. The CAPA team was in attendance to welcome Mr Menzies and stay abreast of the procurement industry.

AirAsia X today reported its seventh consecutive quarterly profit in 2Q2017. Net profit of MYR47.4 million (USD11.1 million) was a result of foreign exchange gains and deferred tax. Revenue increased 17% year-on-year to MYR1 billion (USD234 million), mainly driven by a 34% increase in passenger numbers, which exceeded 26% growth in capacity.

Qantas Group released its Full Year 2017 financial results today, which included information on its fleet, loyalty programme and outlook for FY2018. Qantas today reported an Underlying Profit Before Tax of AUD1401 million and a Statutory Profit Before Tax of AUD1181 million for the 12 months ended 30-Jun-2017.

Icelandic low-fare carrier WOW air is to expand its network in the United States with the introduction of new flights from its Reykjavik hub at Keflavik International Airport to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit and St Louis during the summer 2018 schedule. None of the four destinations announced are currently served from Iceland, albeit Icelandair announced its own plans to serve Cleveland next summer earlier this week.

We recently caught up with think Chief Executive Office Peter McGregor, to discuss all things procurement. Mr McGregor has had over 20 years of experience in procurement, bringing a wealth of knowledge to our recent Melbourne corporate travel summit.

The birds are at it again. It seems accidents and incidents are on the rise with the ATSB reporting a 77.7% increase in accidents for Jun-2017 compared to the same month in 2016. Once again animals are the leading cause of these issues amounting to 33.2% of the total for the month. Below is another CAPA Insights exclusive infographic which focusses on Australia's Accident and Incident Register for Jun-2017, sourced from the ATSB National Aviation Occurrence Database.

In the airline industry differentiating oneself from competition is a vital, but rare, survival technique. Airlines all over the world are constantly looking for the next opportunity to announce how amazing and innovative they are, hoping to influence the decision process of any traveller.

RwandAir will commence operations to Conakry (Guinea), Bamako (Mali) and Dakar (Senegal) from its new hub in Cotonou (Benin) from September 30, 2017 as it expands its footprint across west Africa. The growth follows approval from the Government of Benin for seventh freedom rights allowing it to serve this new city pairs without the need to fly via its Kigali International Airport base.