AviaDev Insight Europe

In this episode we talked to Hans Joergen Elnaes, aviation analyst and consultant. Hans has an incredible deal of experience from various areas of the airline industry. Today we talked mainly about sustainability of aviation, different initiatives for reducing the carbon emissions and other interesting topics. For Hans´ interesting article about the CORSIA initiative and how it compares to national environmental taxes, click here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/green-good-greed-hans-j%C3%B8rgen-eln%C3%A6s/

In this episode we talked to Iztok Franko, an expert for airline ecommerce. Iztok is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia and he used to work for Adria Airways as Chief Marketing or Chief Information Officer. He found his passion in ecommerce directly linked to the world of aviation and now he helps airlines to increase web sales by applying smart, data driven ecommerce solutions and digital marketing. Iztok shares a lot of insightful content related to ancillary revenues, ecommerce and digital marketing on his website https://www.diggintravel.com/.

In this episode András shares his fascinating stories from both of his professional life and from his journeys around the world. He visited over 700 airports in 189 countries and he spent around 266 days sitting on the plane. Total distance of the flights he made is 4,3 km which equals to 109 trips around the globe or 11 trips to the moon. András also explained why he thinks the positives of aviation are more important than the negative side effects.

In this episode we catch up with Elisabeth Stromstad from Stavanger Airport.  We talk about the importance of stakeholder collaboration, unserved routes, robots(!), getting the right mix between leisure and business traffic....oh...and why beekeeping and vegetable growing are great for their airport! Enjoy!

ITB Berlin is one of the largest tourism trade shows in the world. Can it in any way compare to AviaDev, one of the smallest events in the industry? We´ve asked several representatives of European regional airports directly in Berlin.

In this episode Marc describes how it feels like to lead the route development activities from the perspective of a tourism board. He gives the information on how they face the seasonality challenge, how important the Reus airport is for the local economy and what a train connection with Barcelona would mean for the future development of the airport. Marc also shares his opinion on the challenging future for the regional airports.  

Dea shared with us the success story of Georgian airports which were a gateway for more than 3 million tourists entering this beautiful country in 2019. They are not stopping there and Dea outlined their ambitious plans for further growth. 

Michael is very experienced industry professional, he´d been working as a CEO of Cologne Bonn Airport which doubled its traffic in just six years under his management. We discussed the ongoing airline consolidation process in Europe which has already two victims within a few weeks of 2019. We also touched the question of profitability of the regional airports, as they are facing challenging times, too.