Today we released our latest report called “The Rise of Touchless Travel”, where we detail almost 30 different areas in the passenger journey that are expected to go touchless, to restore confidence in flying after COVID-19. The report is powered by an innovator in touchless technologies, Elenium Automation. The next time you go to an airport, don’t expect to … Read more
Clean travel technologies will have a big role to play in kickstarting aviation. Just like how post-9/11, travellers would not have boarded a flight unless their safety was guaranteed, post-COVID they would not travel unless cleanliness was guaranteed. This was the key premise of our report, ‘The Rise of Sanitised Travel‘. It identified over 70 different passenger … Read more
The aviation industry has been hit harder than nearly any other industry during the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic and was recently declared by IATA to be having its worst financial year ever. Debates continue about how to make travel safer, cleaner, and more secure. Despite reassurances from airlines, much of the flying public is still … Read more
Every day we produce a newsletter for 6000+ industry subscribers on aviation and Covid19. This is the lead story from today’s edition. You can subscribe by clicking here. In a recent newsletter, we talked about the Canary Islands and their tourism reopening plans, which include digital passports, and incentives for passengers to test for Covid19 before they … Read more
The world’s first aviation accelerator designed explicitly for post-COVID-19 travel launches today. The SimpliFlying Launchpad curates market-ready technologies and matches them with airports and airlines looking for urgent solutions on everything from sanitisation to contact tracing. The SimpliFlying Launchpad has a range of major names on board as corporate partners. The likes of JetBlue, Japan Airlines, Miami … Read more
In late April, SimpliFlying released a report called “The Rise of Sanitised Travel”, where we detailed 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. As more airlines and airports are introducing new sanitation measures, we want to ask you, … Read more
The airline industry is a very competitive one. The traditional airline models – legacy and low cost – don’t always succeed, as we can see in the aftermath of any global crises. Air Tahiti Nui offers a glimpse into an alternate business model – a boutique airline that is also profitable. In good times and bad, … Read more
Could airlines be storing up trouble for the future, in the way they are responding to so-called Coronavirus air rage? Earlier this week, the press ran reports about an incidence of so-called Coronavirus ‘air rage’ on an Iberia Express flight from Madrid to Tenerife. Essentially passengers were up in arms about the relatively full (70%) flight, which … Read more
Safety, service, security, sustainability, and now sanitation! Since the dawn of the Jet Age, the very first priority for airlines has always been to keep passengers safe. And that is still true today. But the priorities of airlines have evolved over time. Before Southwest Airlines invented the low-cost carrier model, airlines were always competing on who … Read more
On my BBC interview last week, we discussed how “travel bubbles” could help kickstart travel, like between New Zealand and Australia. Countries like New Zealand and Vietnam seem to have finally won the battle against COVID-19. Others like Australia and Taiwan are not far either. So it would make sense to allow travel between “green zone … Read more
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