AviaDev Insight Europe

My guest today is Dirk Singer, Communications Director, Managing Editor at Airline Marketing Monthly at SimpliFlying. Dirk was on our show earlier this year but we talked about something completely different. Today we focus on testing against covid and why Dirk believes it is the number one thing that can potentially bring back to confidence in air travel. We discussed when we can expect to have widely available fast, reliable and affordable tests, if testing shall be mandatory and how vaccine can change the game in the long run. Don´t forget to subscribe to Simpli Flying´s insightful newsletter at https://simpliflying.com/.

My guest today is Max Schintlmeister, an experienced airport manager who is now supporting regional airports as a consultant. Max shared his views on the future of regional airports in the "post-apocalyptic" aviation world significantly damaged by the pandemic. He explained why the airports need to reconsider their major roles within their regions and how they can develop new business ideas. Also, Max made an interesting statement about what makes him feel optimistic about the future of our industry, despite all the negatives it is going through at the moment.

My guest today is Arran Rice, the CEO & Founder of SimpleFlying.com, the world´s largest aviation news website and a proud media partner of AviaDev. Their goal is to provide a one-stop hub for all the key stories on commercial aviation, sharing the news in a simple, accessible way. On the show Arran shared with me what led him to launching SimpleFlying, how the early days of the business looked like, what is the most successful story on their website and much more. Arran also offers his advice to those dreaming about becoming an internet entrepreneur.

This is a recording of our 6th webinar which we did on the 30th June 2020. With John Grant from MIDAS Aviation and AviaDev Consult, Jeremy Robinson from Watson, Farley and Williams and Ged Brown from Low Season Traveller we discussed the future of the low cost business model in Europe in the light of new legislation announced in Austria which would technically set the minimum air fares to 40 EUR. Is it a good idea, is it a bad idea, is it sustainable to fly across the continent for a price of a latte, is it fair to interfere the competition with such rules? We have had a very juicy conversation about all these questions.

In this very special episode, Tony Hallwood (Aviation Development Director at AviaDev Europe) is interviewing Juraj Toth (MD at AviaDev Europe) about the upcoming 2020 event, which will take place on the 16-17 September online. Juraj shares some background information about why the event is moving online this year, what can delegates of the event expect, how the 1-2-1 meetings will be organized, what are AviaDev´s plans in Europe in 2021 and much more.

Registration is open at www.aviadeveurope.online

My guest today is Martin Dichler, a freelance aviation journalist and a passionate avgeek. For the 19 years Martin was chairing a club called Friends of Vienna Airport (Flughafenfreunde Wien). Naturally with Martin we discussed all things Austrian aviation, recent developments on this very interesting market, situation about Lauda and its future, rapid Covid19 tests at Vienna Airport and we also touched the future of Austrian Airlines. Very lively and juicy conversation, enjoy!

My guest today is Shashank Nigam, a person with jet fuel in his veins. Shashank is the founder and CEO of SimpliFlying, one of the world´s largest aviation marketing firms and author of SOAR, a bestseller on airline marketing. Together with his team at SimpliFlying they have created a material titled The Rise of Sanitized Travel which details over 70 different areas in the passenger journey that are expected to either change or to be introduced from scratch, to restore confidence in flying after COVID-19 pandemic. You can download the full report here.

This is a recording of our fifth webinar which we did on the 28th April 2020. For this webinar we partnered with Kiwi.com as guys at kiwi.com have developed a new interesting tool called Travel Market Radar and on the webinar they wanted to share more about how this tool can help the airports and destinations to prepare for the recovery. Our guests on the webinar were:

Patrick Zeuner, head of airport partnerships at kiwi.com

Wouer Veenstra, data products manager at Kiwi.com and

Mate Ritter, airline development manager at Budapest Airport.

Massimo di Perna is a passionate aviation professional from Italy, with rich experience from different positions within the industry. Massimo recently wrote a very interesting article with his opinions and ideas on how the aviation industry in Europe should move forward in the post covid19 world. So we discussed his approach and I also asked for his opinion on blocking off the middle seat, rapid covid tests at the airports and when he expects passengers aircraft back in the air.