Covid-19

Will 2021-2022 see a rush of vaccine tourists, who need a COVID vaccine to fly on certain airlines?   This is an area we’ve explored in our previous monthly seminars, and it’s something that’s [...]

Back in May, we had opined how travel bubbles can help kickstart the airline recovery process. While our initial vision was travel bubbles primarily between countries with low (or similar) [...]

Prelimimary results from the trials conducted at Toronto Pearson Airport, combined with a new pilot programme launched in Alberta, point to a two test regime being most effective in stopping [...]

By now, we know that airline customer experience will change in ways not imaginable before COVID-19. Which are the technologies powering the future? The next SimpliFlying Launchpad Demo Day aims [...]

News that the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine could be up to 90% effective provides much-needed light at the end of the tunnel, and points to a time when the world may finally get back to some [...]

Airline passenger experience has changed dramatically in the past six months. Nowhere is that most visible than in airline uniform. So we decided to pull together a #ThenAndNow, the [...]

Last month Alitalia announced a trial where all passengers on two daily Rome – Milan flights are being COVID-19 tested. Now United is introducing a pilot programme where the Abbott ID NOW [...]

PRESS RELEASE (26 October 2020) Aviation consultancy SimpliFlying today released a whitepaper to help air travellers return to the skies with confidence. Testing+ is a 10-point blueprint for air [...]

Since we started the SimpliFlying Launchpad back in June, 18 residents have come through. The sanitisation and biosafety efforts were Step 1 in restoring confidence in air travel. Now in the [...]

It is important for airlines to re-build traveller confidence. Some, like Etihad Airways, are going above and beyond in terms of the measures they are taking, as we learned in our conversation [...]