CONFERENCE AIRLINES
Airline bosses to speak at ACTE- CAPA event
FOR THIS YEAR’S ANNUAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE, ACTE has teamed up with CAPA Centre for Aviation to hold a joint Global Summit in Amsterdam on October 26-28, and BBT is media partner to the event.
The line-up of speakers features aviation bosses, including
Emirates brings third A380 to Manchester
EMIRATES IS INCREASING CAPACITY to Manchester with a third daily A380 in the new year, which means that all flights served by the carrier to the north west city will be operated by the double-decker aircraft. The Gulf carrier currently operates two daily A380 flights on the Dubai-Manchester route, with the third being served by a B777-300ER. But from January 1, 2017 the Boeing aircraft will be replaced by Emirates’ Airbus superjumbo, resulting in an 11 per cent increase in capacity on the route.
In addition, the carrier is to swap its current two-class A380 Birmingham service from the afternoon to the evening, “to offer customers even more connections beyond Dubai to other Emirates A380 destinations”. Emirates says it expects to break the ‘one million passengers carried’ mark on its Dubai-Manchester route during the 2016-17 financial year.
DELAYS
A QUARTER OF UK FLIGHTS DELAYED
NEARLY A QUARTER OF THE 1.9 MILLION FLIGHTS to and from the UK in the year ending March 2016 were delayed by 15 minutes or more, research from publication Which? has found. Of the 449,000 flights between April 2015 and March 2016,
more than 10,000 were more than three hours late. Total delays hit around 43 million passenger journeys. Passengers were most likely to be delayed at Southend airport on short-haul flights, but Gatwick and Manchester airports suffered the most delays to long-haul journeys, with 1.3 per cent delayed by more than three hours. Vueling (1.9%), Loganair (1.6%) and Aurigny (1.3%) are named as the airlines with the highest percentage of delays of three hours or more to short-haul flights. Which? is encouraging passengers to claim compensation but warned payouts are unlikely for extreme weather or airport strikes.
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CEOs from airlines such as KLM, Aeroflot, Brussels and Ethiopian, as well as industry leaders from the likes of the World Travel and Tourism Council, HRS and Car Trawler. Plenary sessions will explore the latest trends in booking and payment apps, and ‘the art of the modern business relationship’, as well as key aviation topics including disintermediation, joint ventures, Open Skies and low-cost carriers. Breakout education sessions will cover a range of topics, from risk management and data skills, to tackling direct bookings and sharing economy disruptors (see also ACTE column, p127).
ACTE-CAPA Global Summit, Hotel Okura Amsterdam, October 26-28, 2016, visit
acte.org
TRENDS
DEMAND FOR AIR TRAVEL ‘LOSING MOMENTUM’
THE GROWTH OF GLOBAL AIR TRAVEL IS BEING HELD BACK by “softer demand” following terrorist attacks and a “fragile” economic outlook. The latest figures from
IATA showed passenger traffic rose by 5.2 per cent in June, compared to the same month in 2015. But IATA said that the “upward trend” in airline traffic has “moderated” since January and load factors fell slightly in June – dropping by 0.3 percentage points to an average of 80.7 per cent. Tony Tyler, IATA’s director general, said: “The demand for travel continues to increase, but at a slower pace. The fragile and uncertain economic backdrop, political shocks and a wave of terrorist
attacks are all contributing to a softer demand environment.” European airlines saw the smallest regional increase in demand during June – up by only 2.1 per cent year- on-year, which IATA said was “reflecting the negative impact of recent terrorism”. “It is too soon to know whether recent terrorist attacks will have a long- term negative influence on demand, nor what will be the impact of Brexit and the events in Turkey,” added Tyler. “But it is vital that
governments recognise and support aviation’s ability to contribute to global economic well-being and better understanding across cultural and political borders.”
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