LCCs the right model for post-Covid world; recovery is not near, but out of creative destruction may emerge new entities
Low cost carriers might just be the right model for the post-Covid world, said Scoot’s CEO Campbell Wilson, but recovery is still some distance away.
Speaking at
CAPA’s virtual Australia Pacific Aviation Summit, Wilson suggested “this is a
good time to be an LCC for a few good reasons”.
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Turner urges, fix the present; Harbison says, fix the future; Joyce raises funds to invest in restructuring to ensure Qantas lasts 100 years
“We need to bring as many people as we can through this”, says Flight Centre Travel Group CEO
Airlines don’t make money at the best of times and these are the worst of times. Watching the opening couple of hours of Wednesday’s CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit on the screen was a bi [...]
The Wrap: Grab and Klook partner to promote regional tourism, AirAsia launches e-tail platform to bolster revenue, and more …
The Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and to keep track of developments in these sectors as the green shoots of recovery slowly take root.
Grab adds tour and activity bookings to app through integration with Klook
A new partnership to promote tourism in South [...]
Planeterra launches virtual trek challenge to help rebuild community tourism devastated by Covid-19
Planeterra Foundation, the non-profit partner of small-group adventure tour operator G Adventures and G Touring, launched its first annual Planeterra Trek Challenge today (September 2).
Bruce Poon Tip, Planeterra's founder (also G Adventures' founder and G Touring's owner), invites the travel i [...]
WiT partners with GEVME to deliver a new kind of Experience Week, Sept 28-Oct 1
WiT (Web in Travel) is partnering with Singapore-based events platform, GEVME , to deliver a new kind of WiT Experience Week 2020, scheduled from September 28 to October 1.
“Covid has forced events
into a new world and all of us have had to adapt to the changed circumstances,
and the best way [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 22: Tom Peacock-Nazil, Founder, Seven Clean Seas
This is a
story that begins on Koh Lipe, an island in the Andaman Sea near the border of
Malaysia, a popular spot for travellers. It is known for lots of small islands,
sandy beaches and coral-rich waters.
Tom Peacock-Nazil and wife Pamela needed a break from their hectic urban life in Singapor [...]
Guest Blog: Airlines, Brand Trust & Covid-19
Over the past
month, I've been evaluating the Covid-19 policies and corporate communications
of 66 airlines.
As someone with a geeky love of both air travel and digital branding, I've been curious about how the airlines are responding to the ongoing pandemic.
The airline industry's revenue [...]
FIT, customised and bleisure travel: Trends among Chinese travellers in the new normal
With health and safety as key concerns in the time of coronavirus the habits of travellers worldwide have changed which, in turn, led to new travel trends in the new normal.
Such concerns have impacted the travel intentions of Chinese consumers who are showing preferences for customised and FiT [...]
Groundhog Day on rewind; no one is in charge yet everyone is in it
Do you feel that at times you are a character in the movie “Groundhog Day”? In that 1993 movie, Bill Murray plays Phil, a weatherman, who finds himself trapped in a blizzard and forced to relive the same day over and over again until he makes the right choices.
One of
his quotes – “What [...]
Cleanliness and hygiene take centerstage in Hilton marketing
Who could have imagined hotels would be advertising their cleaning processes and products on their websites, or building entire marketing campaigns around how they keep their hotel rooms cleaned and sanitised?
But in this
new world we live in, these are now valued and marketing hooks because cl [...]
