AviaDev Insight Europe

This is a recording of our fourth webinar which we did on the 21st April 2020. Our guests on the webinar were

Gavin Eccles, management consultant and professor, with over 25 years of experience in both aviation tourism,

Rudy Knewitz, Managing Partner at AirPass, the person that knows the agency and operator world in & out and has been active with several roles within the tourism and aviation industry for many years

And Miguel Angel Perez, brand manager at Turismo Valencia the man behind the massive growth of Valencia as an attractive and accessible destination and a dear friend and supporter of AviaDev.

With Gavin, Rudy and Miguel we talked about the future of tourism and aviation, how the new cooperation across the stakeholders can look like, when and how they expect the recovery to start, how the new normal for tourism will look like and much more.

The recording is always available on youtube, where you obviously also see the slides that our speakers were sharing with us, just search for aviadev Europe webinar.

This is a recording of our third webinar which we did on the 7th April 2020. With

Joanna Bailey editor at SimpleFlying, the world´s largest aviation news website,

Chloe Greenbank, editor at Regional Gateway, the only media portfolio dedicated exclusively to regional, business and secondary airports,

Dirk Singer – Head of Sustainability at SimpliFlying the world´s leading airline marketing strategy firm,

Max Oldorf, Chief Commercial Officer at Ch-aviation, an influential airline intelligence provider and as they say, one of the very few Swiss aviation success stories

we tried to take a look on the silver lining of the covid19 impact on aviation industry. The whole supply chain is going through something nobody has ever seen before. However, there are also lessons of inspiration, optimism and resilience which our wonderful speakers shared on the webinar.

This is a recording of our second webinar which we did on the 31st March 2020. With Enzo Zangrilli (senior aviaton consultant and and owner at 1aviation consulting) and Aurimas Stikliunas (Head of Aviation Services at Lithuanian Airports) we discussed the situation from the airports perspective as they suffer a lot, too. We tried to look on the days after, how airports can prepare for the world after the lockdowns and what will be crucial for the recovery of air traffic.

The recording is always available on youtube, where you obviously also see the slides that Enzo was sharing with us, just search for aviadev Europe webinar.

This is a recording of our first webinar which we did on the 24th March with John Grant, aviation consultant and partner at Midas Aviation and Jeremy Robinson, partner at Watson Farley and Williams, specialist on EU & competition law and aviation law. Airlines all over the world are in extremely difficult position following the covid19 outbreak and extraordinary capacity reduction all over the world and they are in need for massive support. On the webinar we discussed how, when and to what extent this support can be potentially granted in Europe and how the industry might look like when the time of Covid19 is over.

This is our episode 65 and today we´d like to promote our 2nd podcast which is called AviaDev Weekly News. We started with this in November 2019 and each week we invite industry experts to comment on the hot news from the world of aviation from the respective week. Our regular guests include aviation enthusiast working for the airlines, like Mateusz Klimek from Iberia or Antonio Pascale from Easyjet, aviation consultants John Grant, Deirdre Fulton or Hans Joerg Elnaes, aviation journalists Jo Bailey or Chloe Greenbank.

However, somebody was on this podcast already 4 times and that´s Max Oldorf from ch aviation. He´s not always politically correct, but he knows the aviation stuff and he´s also great fun. So today we´re sharing with you most recent episode of aviadev weekly news podcast with Max Oldorf here, at AviaDev Insight Europe podcast as episode 65.

At AviaDev we are very much aware that the situation with Covid19 outbreak is very serious and our thoughts are with all of those who are in the front line of the fight with the virus. However, we always try to be positive and that´s also what we did today with Max Oldorf. He shared with us the first signs of recovery from China and his thoughts on why he thinks that again, aviation industry will come back stronger than ever before.

Stefan is passionate aviation enthusiast and he was chosen to join us in Valencia as one of our ambassadors at AviaDev Europe 2019. As such he had the opportunity to present his thoughts in front of the industry professionals and Stefan shares with me today how it felt like. We discussed also the challenges and opportunities for the aviation market in Stefan´s home country – Romania and, very important, Stefan is now looking for an internship for upcoming summer, so if there´s anyone listening in position to offer Stefan an internship at an airport or airline, it would be fantastic.

My guest today is Becca Rowland, AviaDev´s friend from MIDAS Aviation, with whom we created AviaDev Consult. The reason we had Becca on again is that recently she published a very interesting article outlining couple of European regional airlines and their business models in comparison with Flybe, which is obviously still going through a difficult time. Becca also shared with us her thoughts on the future of regional airlines in Europe and what they need to do if they want to be around in 5 years time.

I met Simona in Dubai at Global Investment Aviation Summit. What Simona and her company NG Aviation is focused on (by the way, NG stands for Next Generation as I found out) is helping mainly airports and CAAs with carrying their aeronautical data into the digital world. Hear about Simona´s inspiring journey and especially all of you out there who are thinking about launching your own aviation business, there are lots if interesting lessons you can take away from Simona.

This is how NG Aviation is making aviation digital - easily and simply: http://www.ngaviation.eu/

RDC Aviation was our sponsor at AviaDev Europe 2019 in Valencia so we had a quick chat about that with Chris but most of all we were talking about how RDC Aviation can support route development activities from both airports and airlines perspective through Airport Charges product. Chris also shared with us some really interesting figures which confirmed the general perception of regional and secondary airports being more competitive with their charges than the major airports and big hubs. Also, Chris is getting ready to trek up Kilimanjaro to raise money for charity granting the wishes of children living with life threatening illness. You can support this charity here.

Global population is becoming more and more aware about the climate change, many people say we are the last generation that can do something in order to prevent irreversible changes in the climate. And aviation found itself in the centre of this debate, even though it produces just around 2,5% of global CO2 emissions. We´ll take a close look into this topic with Dirk Singer, who´s author of Airline Marketing Monthly Magazine and its December issue was titled the Flight Shaming Special. You can download it here for free: http://tiny.cc/3zd1iz - and we definitely recommend that, it puts many thing into perspective.