Corporate Travel Analysis Reports

Qantas has finally revealed the names for its fleet of eight Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, the first of which is set to arrive in October this year. Despite a lengthy campaign, unfortunately you won't be seeing Blue Swan streaming across the skies. Thanks Qantas. But maybe next time.

The Blue Swan Daily brings you another exclusive infographic, following on from our previous article: Perth & WA Profile: Part 1 - Perth Airport the "most international" of Australia's major airports.

There has been much debate over the past couple of years of the potential need for a middle of the market aeroplane to replace the Boeing 757 and 767. While the 787 and Airbus A330neo and A350 have partly filled this void and the extension of single-aisle families has clearly encroached on this marketplace, the US manufacturer is showing the strongest signs yet there could be a need for a purpose-designed modern-generation airliner to sit between its 737MAX and 787 families. And that comes despite it making a further stretch to the 737 with the launch of the MAX-10 variant at the Paris Air Show this week.

CAPA's 2017 LCCs in North Asia Summit was hosted last week and included a variety of high profile industry leaders discussing topical issues related to aviation.

Tourism Council WA (TCWA) has released its latest report on hotel development in Perth as at the end of April 2017. According to Tourism Council WA, a significant increase in leisure visitors is needed to fill thousands of Perth hotel rooms either recently completed or in the pipeline.

Gulf carrier Qatar Airways will place its new Qsuite business class concept into commercial service later this month, just days after unveiling the product onboard one of its aircraft for the first time. After launching the design at ITB Berlin in March this year, the airline has now fully retrofitted the four-seat design into the first of its Boeing 777-300ERs and displayed the aircraft at this week's Paris Air Show.

The Blue Swan Daily brings you another exclusive infographic, focussing on Domestic Air Travel for Apr-2017, sourced from BITRE data and CAPA.

The Samoan government is planning to launch a new flag carrier following the dissolution of Virgin Samoa. Fiji Airways is discussing a partnership with the Samoan government which could involve supporting the new airline, which will take over Virgin Samoa's existing services to Australia and New Zealand, and adding capacity on its routes to Samoa from Fiji and Hawaii.

Airbus is presenting a development study for an enhanced A380, the "A380plus" in the hope of securing additional customer for the slow-selling aircraft. The study includes aerodynamic improvements in particular new, large winglets and other wing refinements that allow for up to 4% fuel burn savings. Added to an optimised A380 maintenance programme and the enhanced cabin features first shown at Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in April, the overall benefit is a 13% cost per seat reduction versus today's A380.

There seems to be a growing consensus in the airline industry that the rules restricting the foreign ownership and control of airlines are archaic and should be significantly liberalised or abolished. However, a majority of delegates at the recent CAPA Airline Leader Summit in Dublin did not expect the rules to be discarded any time soon.