Global passenger traffic has decreased significantly in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19. Everywhere has been affected by these reduced travellers, but not all places have been impacted the same. 7/10 of the busiest airports during this period have been in China, and the remaining 3 being in the United States. As for taking in [...]
All travelers require a negative Covid test 3 days prior to entering the country regardless of the colour designation that country may have. Covid tests have a large range of costs and are not covered by the NHS when travelling so must be purchased privately. The cheapest I could find were from Tui which was [...]
Covid-19 has caused drastic changes in almost all aspects of life and business since it caused international shutdowns throughout 2020. Airports and air travel have been one of the hardest hit industries to prevent the rapid spread of Covid-19. Now in 2021, with everything slowly beginning to re-open again, we are starting to see how [...]
Air Taxi and eVTOL are to take over traffic conjection Urban Air Mobility (UAM) this is rapidly becoming a multi-billion dollar industry. According to a Morgan Stanley Research study, the market for electric air taxis, should continue to grow to up to $1.5 trillion globally by 2040. Despite the pandemic, the flying air taxi [...]
Drones caused a lot of disruption which can not be undermined as they pose safety risk as well as disrupt airport operations, force authorities to cease flight operations and operational managers to re-write their operational procedures that have been perfected over years! All stakeholders - airports, regulators, ANS, police and airline pilots have been involved [...]
Across America 45% of workers say they are either satisfied or extremely satisfied with their jobs; only 20% feel very passionate about their jobs; 33% believe they have reached dead end in their careers and 21% are eager to change careers. Older workers are the most satisfied and the most engaged in their work. Younger works [...]
As you know, non-aero revenue is becoming more important to airports, since travel retail sales dropped by 5% per head compared to last year despite a strong growth in pax.* Although major travel retailers understand the pax that spends more, airport operators are now investing heavily in providing boarding, lodging, parking and other facilities, looking for new revenue streams in addition to their [...]
Ground handling companies are responsible for aircraft safety. Thus, they have to provide high quality services and, in order to do so, standards are formulated by adapting the best practices of the aviation industry. Nowadays we are assisting a shortage of skills in ground handling which means delays and accidents, [...]
Increasing debates on the high-speed rail system proposed by the Virgin founder are increasing worldwide. “Hyperloop” trains are pods travelling over an electro-magnetic track enclosed in a low-resistance tube with very low air pressure. With around 20 years to be built, a ticket on the Hyperloop will be around USD20 according to the CEO of Tesla Elon Musk's [...]
