Corporate Travel Analysis Reports

Fiji Airways is planning to expand in the US market in response to surging demand and the emergence of Fiji as a popular holiday destination for Americans.

The South Australian Tourism Council (SATC), released its annual 'International Market Place' profile in Jul-2017. Foreign arrivals account for 6% of total visitor numbers to South Australia, while International expenditure accounts for 14% of total visitor expenditure. China has grown significantly over the past five years, while the established western markets of the UK, New Zealand and North America continue to perform well for South Australia.

At the same time as plans to launch Taipei-London in Dec-2017, China Airlines has announced a second daily Taipei-Sydney flight, as well as plans to transition Sydney from A330 to A350 service. This is a clear attempt to target the Europe-Australia route from Sydney.

A trio of Far Eastern cities have been named best value for a long haul city break in a new barometer of costs for holidaymakers in ten cities with flight times of six or more hours from Europe. Research for the Post Office Travel Money Long Haul City Costs Barometer found that Bangkok is the cheapest overall destination, narrowly beating Tokyo and Beijing, while cities in North America were found to be significantly more expensive.

Airlines are preparing for the future by embracing big data to enhance the customer experience. In fact, both Emirates and Qantas are already looking at how they can better serve their customers with information outside of the simple booking process. Emirates believes the key is to partner with well established brands that the customer expects, while Qantas wants to own the customer at every level.

As the Blue Swan Daily reported on the 24-Jul-2017 (Introducing OAG's on-time Performance Star Ratings) OAG have introduced a star rating for airlines and airports across the globe. Let's take a look at the local airlines.

Figures released by ACI Europe reveal that European airports had "by far the best first half year traffic performance in more than 10 years" in 1H2017, with passenger volumes expanding by close to 30% since 2012. EU and non-EU markets ended up posting similar growth levels in passenger traffic, at +8.7% and +9.9%, respectively.

German carrier airberlin has become the second major European airline to file for insolvency proceedings after Gulf carrier Etihad Airways pulled the plug on its support refusing to provide further guarantees for its short-and medium-term commitments. This followed a similar process at Alitalia earlier in the year, another of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier's equity investments in the European airline market.

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