Corporate Travel Analysis Reports

CAPA - Centre for Aviation hosted the 2017 CAPA-ACTE Melbourne Aviation & Corporate Travel Summit this week. The event, which brought together a wide variety of key industry speakers and was attended by suppliers and buyers from all over Australia.

In most parts of the world, the tourism forecast for this Summer is hot, hot, hot, reports ForwardKeys, which predicts future patterns by analysing 16 million booking transactions a day. The company reports that global long-haul air travel bookings for June, July and August are 6.4% ahead of where they were at the same time last year.

How well do you understand and work with your stakeholders? I'm not talking about your colleagues or management team, I'm focusing specifically on procurement as your customer.

To continue being competitive in the corporate market, airlines are being pushed to include more in their contracts than ever before. The demand for additional features and inclusions into contracts assists with organisations with being efficient while on the road.

Low-cost carrier Norwegian is to expand its transatlantic network with the addition of long-haul flights from Rome's Leonardo da Vinci International Airport. The airline will base a single Boeing 787-9 at Fiumicino from November 2017 to introduce flights to Newark and Los Angeles, adding a second aircraft from February 2018 to grow frequencies and add a link to Oakland, serving the San Francisco Bay market.

Batik Air has set a 21-Jun-2017 launch date for service from Bali to Perth, the first Australia route for the Indonesian full service airline. Batik, which is part of the Lion Group, will initially operate Bali-Perth with two daily flights using A320s in two class 156-seat configuration.

It seems members of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government and travel community in Canberra have been working hard to secure additional carriers and routes to the city. The airport has developed an international terminal capable of handling up to one million passengers a year, and key parliamentary members have been out lobbying carriers with gusto.

Emirates Airline will reduce its First Class offering as part of a reconfiguration of the cabins on the Boeing 777-300ER, continuing what has become an industry trend over the past decade. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) hub carrier will cut capacity by a quarter removing two of its eight First Class private suites and switching from a 1-2-1 to a 1-1-1 design and delivering its onboard experience "to the next level".

The CAPA-ACTE 2017 Melbourne Aviation & Corporate Travel Summit is scheduled for tomorrow and will include some incredible speakers such as: Intelligent Travel, Managing Director, Tony Ridley; AccorHotels, Director of National Sales, Elizabeth Georgopoulos; Air Canada, General Manager (Australia and New Zealand), Paul McLean; and NAB, Senior Economist, Gerard Burg.

Malaysia's Malindo Air has placed into service Boeing's first 737 MAX, a new re-engined narrowbody aircraft family that also has been ordered by Virgin Australia and Fiji Airways and is under evaluation by Qantas.