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Uncertainty and continued COVID transmission continues to cloud travel recovery – airlines report uptick in booking cancellations as Delta variant hurts sentiment

August 31, 2021

Since the mutation was first identified there were concerns from the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant that it was more infectious and potentially more

Business travel is in demand especially among employees of US small- and medium-sized businesses, but it may be job security concerns behind the push in traveller sentiment

July 27, 2021

There have been some encouraging signs that business travel is bouncing back as part of a general COVID recovery across the United States of America.

Charting the trends – COVID may have turned the world upside down, but Delta, American and United remain the most valuable and Aeroflot the strongest airline brands

July 22, 2021

The world is a very different place today than it was 18 months ago before when the coronavirus pandemic was in its infancy. That is

United Airlines Ventures adds Heart Aerospace as its latest industry investment to support ambitions to ‘make the blue skies greener’

July 16, 2021

Having previously invested its knowledge in the development of an eVTOL project with mobility company Archer as part of a broader effort to invest in

Going supersonic – United’s Overture signing comes with strong caveats but still represents massive boost to Boom Aerospace’s supersonic aspirations and the return for high-speed air travel

June 04, 2021

The closure last month of Aerion Supersonic highlighted just how much of a technical challenge the proposed return of high-speed commercial air travel beyond the

The CEO perspective – airline bosses open up on COVID, the recovery, and the future of air travel

April 28, 2021

Over the first four months of 2021 airline CEOs from across the world have spoken openly at the monthly CAPA Live virtual summit about air

The number’s game – the scale of corporate travel recovery remains uncertain, but there is generally growing optimism on its revival

April 27, 2021

“Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random,” is a saying from Donald Ervin Knuth, an American computer scientist, Professor Emeritus

The future of urban travel and short-distance hub feeding domestic flying in the US? United invests its knowledge in development of eVTOL project with a potential commitment for up to 200 aircraft

February 17, 2021

US major has provided a look at what the future of its domestic flying may look after it confirmed the signing of an agreement to

Pick a number, any number! Bill Gates says we could lose over 50% of business travel: it would take the potential scale of the COVID crisis to new heights for the corporate travel sector

November 20, 2020

When Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said this week that “over 50 per cent of business travel and over 30 per cent of days in the

Contracting COVID-19 onboard an airliner is as likely as ‘being struck by lightning’ as new studies reinforce the message that flying is safe with very low-risk of virus transmission

October 21, 2020

Whether you feel safe flying comes down to a personal viewpoint and for many travellers it comes down to more than just the flight, but