Category: Resources

The State of Airline Marketing 2014 what? Published by SimpliFlying and airlinetrends.com, this year’s report has 7 new trends, that show how airline marketing is undergoing a revolution. why? Learn about the 7 key trends in airline marketing today including Visual Culture, Cool Tech, People Power and more! Each trend is accompanied by an illustrative case-study. is the report →

Yesterday, I delivered a keynote at Eyefortravel’s Travel Distribution Summit Asia 2014. I presented some key stats on the emergence of the connected and what airlines need to know about them. I shared the following: Today’s Connected Travellers are deal-seekers. They are multi-screen shoppers. Demographics of connectivity are changing — older users are migrating to →

Airline marketing is in a state of great change. One of the great pleasures of working in an aviation marketing consultancy is the constant joy in discovering new campaigns by airlines and airports. Airlines, as we mentioned yesterday, have been doing much better than airports when it comes to evolving marketing strategies in the age of →

Earlier today, I presented at the TFWA Asia Pacific Conference 2014.  My focus was the Connected Traveller and the huge opportunities that an intimately connected world provides to airport retailers — especially with reference to how today’s Connected Consumer expects deeper personalisation and relies on product recommendations from friends and acquaintances on social networks. Apart →

Each year, a number of airlines around the world take April Fools’ Day in their stride and join in the fun with some believable, and many unbelievable gags. April Fools Day airline campaigns help raise brand awareness and engagement in markets that typically would not have even heard of the airline. Some, like WestJet, do →

Last week, we were invited to deliver a presentation at the Airline Retail Conference (ARC), Asia-Pacific 2014, held in Singapore. The focus of the presentation was on driving revenues from the Connected Traveller — I spoke about the emergence of the Connected Traveller; key trends regarding the modern traveller behaviour that airlines need to note; and →

Editor’s Note: While SimpliFlying’s aviation marketing thought leadership goes far and wide, we know there is more great content beyond our borders. SimpliRecap is a weekly feature that ensures that our readers don’t miss the latest in airline and airport marketing. This week’s selection is from the world of airline marketing. Find our previous editions here. How airlines →

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Vikas Bysani of Unmetric, an exclusive aviation partner of SimpliFlying. Unmetric is a social media benchmarking company that helps brands analyse how well they’re doing on social media by including in-depth insights into numerous metrics as well as information on what kind of content “works” and how competitors are →

Jointly produced by SimpliFlying, and industry and consumer trends research agency, airlinetrends.com, the highly-acclaimed Airline Marketing Benchmark Report analyses a wide range of airline marketing case studies each month. The monthly report contains a selection of the 15 most innovative marketing and advertising campaigns launched by airlines around the world and assesses their impact. If →

I delivered a brief keynote on the advent of the Connected Traveller and how the travel landscape must evolve at Eyefortravel’s Social Media and Mobile in Travel Asia 2013 conference in Hong Kong yesterday. I touched upon the following key points: An all-new travel landscape where travellers are increasingly connected to each other, and expect →