Looking at the glass half full: The increase in Digital Transformation within airports during COVID-19 Digital Transformation is not new in any industry and in particular aviation. Digital Transformation programmes are often a strategy to increase efficiency at airports, providing a seamless passenger journey by using automation. ePassports for example have been around for over […]

05 Aug A Challenging Summer For Europe’s Airlines Posted at 12:28h in Airlines, Blog by World Aviation Festival 0 Likes Share We are well into the peak Northern summer season but you’d be excused for not recognising it as such. As recent earnings reports reveal, the red ink is still all too prevalent. Ever changing […]

09 Aug Retail Forward: What could be better than the worst? Posted at 07:18h in Airlines, Airports, Blog by World Aviation Festival 0 Likes Share Let’s get the ugly out of the way. IATA surprised no one by confirming that 2020 was the worst year on record for airlines. 8 billion passengers flew in 2020, […]

16 Aug The Sturdiest Alliance and Other Insights from the Datalex/IdeaWorks Big Book of Airline Data Posted at 07:34h in Airlines, Blog by World Aviation Festival 1 Like Share Datalex and Ideaworks have published their Big Book of Airline Data for the 2020 Financial Year, offering some perspectives on airline resilience during the COVID pandemic. […]

23 Aug Airline CFOs are Moderately Optimistic and IATA Travel Pass Advances Posted at 07:20h in Airlines, Blog by World Aviation Festival 0 Likes Share Airline CFOs are feeling moderately optimistic for the future as the global vaccine roll-out continues. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has published its most recent (July) airline CFO confidence […]