Corporate Travel Analysis Reports

CAPA's Airline Leader Summit rolled into Dublin last week on the 11^th and 12^th May. Hosted by Dublin Airport and Cork Airport, the event included a variety of high profile industry leaders discussing topical issues related to aviation.

LATAM Airlines traffic in Australia has nearly doubled since 2013 and should see another 40% spike as Latin America's largest airline group launches services to Melbourne.

Air France hopes its new low-cost business will enable it to better compete in attracting a new market of passengers in the millennial's segment, an area it believes it will be able to carve out its own business proposition without cannibalising its own operations at its Charles De Gaulle Airport hub in Paris.

In the winter 2016/2017 schedule the Turkish Airlines (THY) Group implemented an unprecedented year-on-year cut in capacity. According to data from OAG, its total seat numbers were 4.7% lower than in the previous winter schedule. In ASK terms, Turkish Airlines reported a 6.1% year-on-year cut for the winter months (November 2016 to March 2017).

Many of Europe's leading airline groups are acknowledging the importance of establishing dedicated incubator and/or accelerator programmes to innovate in digital technology. Last month IAG announced that it had invested in two new technology companies - Esplorio and Vchain Tech. These are the first two investments under its Hangar 51 accelerator programme in partnership with L Marks, an innovation specialist and early stage investor.

Hawaiian Airlines continues to grow from strength to strength, enjoying an impressive positive unit revenue in the past year and the unveiling of fun new livery, all the while expecting delivery of a large number of new aircraft.

Scoot has implemented a new schedule for three of its weekly Sydney flights, resulting in improved connections to India and its future European destinations.

The IAG European airline group believes it is in a strong enough position to start delivering personalised flight and fare offers to its customers thanks to the wealth of data it has collected on over 50 million individual people that flew with its owned airlines last year.

The Turnbull Government released its 2017/18 Federal Budget on Tuesday 09-May-2017 with some surprising and some not so surprising inclusions. Tourism and infrastructure was a key component of the budget with the Government outlining the process for funding the Western Sydney Airport, while Tourism Australia took a hit and lost AUD35 million (USD25.7 million).

This month the BlueSwan Daily road-tested Air New Zealand's Premium Economy. And we had plenty of time to do so on the long sector between Auckland and Houston, right in the heart of the US and a key hub of Air NZ's Star Alliance partner - United.