AviaDev Insight Europe

My guest today is Laurent Donceel, senior policy director at Airlines for Europe. With Laurent we discussed all things about aviation´s focus on sustainability. Laurent highlighted his takeaways from the transport day at COP26, we touched on forming of the aviation Climate Ambition Coalition, who´s holding back the Single European Sky and where we are with Destination 2050.

My guest today is Marina Bylinsky, head of sustainability at ACI Europe.

ACI Europe is association that groups over 500 airports in 55 countries that facilitate over 90% of commercial air traffic in Europe. In response to the Climate Emergency, in June 2019 ACI Europe´s members committed to achieving Net Zero carbon emissions for operations under their control by 2050, without offsetting.

The main topic of today´s conversation with Marina is Airport Carbon Accreditation - the only institutionally-endorsed, global carbon management certification programme for airports, developed at ACI.

With Marina we discuss the whole process which the airports that join this initiative go through, how successful the project has been so far and why airports that are not part of it yet should consider joining it.

In the light of the recent events AviaDev team talks to Dirk Singer, Head of Research at Simpliflying who has been covering the implications of the pandemic on the world of travel since the early days.

Also today, Dirk is very actively commenting end explaining the current situation on Linkedin and also on Simpliflying corona weekly newsletter.

On 25th November we heard the first news about a new variant of covid-19 which was discovered by the scientists in South Africa and later it was named Omicron by WHO. What followed was very quick reaction of the international community to ban the flights from South Africa and other African countries.

With Dirk we are discussing the current situation, what we do know about Omicron on 30 November 2021, how effective the travel bans are and what we can expect in the coming weeks.

Hans Jørgen Elnæs is an independent aviation analyst based in Oslo with rich experience from the aviation world including work for Ryanair and Qatar Airways.

Hans is also a great friend of AviaDev and one of our SkyHeroes. This time we sat together and discussed some of the hot topics from the world of aviation, including Lufthansa repaying its debt to the German government, which trends could Hans see as a result of the Dubai Airshow, what´s going on in the sky above Scandinavia and much more. You can connect with Hans using his Linkedin profile.

This is a recording of a session from Future Flying Forum 2021 – an online event by Simple Flying and AviaDev that took place on 10-11 November.

In this session I had the great pleasure to speak to Shashank Nigam, CEO and founder at Simpliflying. Just a few days ago Shashank and his team introduced the pathway towards the green passenger journey – a material called The Rise of Green Travel which you can download for free at simpliflying.com. In this session Shashank gave us a tour about several exciting steps of a passenger journey from Singapore to San Diego in 2026.

This is a recording of a session from Future Flying Forum 2021 – an online event by Simple Flying and AviaDev that took place on 10-11 November.

In this session I had the great pleasure to interview two CEOs of airlines that are on the path to play a significant role on the transatlantic market. So the title of discussion with Birgir JonssonCEO of Play and Bjorn Tore Larsen, CEO of Norse Atlantic Airways was can low cost long haul ever really work.

This is a recording of the fourth episode of SkyHeroes - the aviation talkshow brought to you by AviaDev where 3 of our industry experts share their open opinions on hot aviation topics in a light way, sometimes controversial, sometimes not completely politically correct, sometimes also funny. But if we can still laugh, even in these difficult times, it means we are still alive, right?

This time our experts were John Grant, Hans Joergen Elnaes and Joanna Bailey and the topics we were discussing included:

1. Consolidation on European LCC market and its potential consequences 2. What´s behind Finnair´s expansion in Sweden? 3. How freezing will this winter be for the European airlines, can we expect any casualties?

My guest today was James Pearson, route development analyst at Simple Flying. James has dedicated most of his aviation career to route development so no wonder his name resonates with many members of this community and I´m sure a lot of you, our listeners know James very well, too.

So we discussed route development from various angles, what makes James so passionate about it and how he sees its fascinating dynamics to develop in the future.

Juan Gómez works as Insights Expert at ForwardKeys, a long term friends of AviaDev. Together with Juan we took a close look on tourism in Europe during summer 2021, which slowely but surely comes to its end.

Juan identified the winners of the summer - those countries and destinations that performed very well and what made them so successful. I also asked Juan about some predictions for the upcoming future: what can we expect in the next 3-5 months, will there be any Christmas markets related travel and which travel trends are here to stay in the long term.

In today´s episode we discuss with Arran Rice (CEO & Founder at Simple Flying), Joanna Bailey (Managing Editor at SimpleFlying) and Jon Howell (CEO & Founder at AviaDev) new online event: The Future Flying Forum.

The event is brought to you by SimpleFlying and powered by AviaDev. Safely strapped into your own comfortable seat, we'll follow the sun from East to West, touching down along the way to chat with aviation's leading CEOs.

More information and registration is available at futureflyingforum.com.