IATA has suggested air traffic growth seems to be resuming after the economic decline of 2008-9. Future growth trends will be driven by the low-cost airlines (LCC), as they continue to increase their passenger loads. LCC’s have revitalized many regional airports, leading to competition between airports and the need for airports to be competitive in their … Read more
At AirGate Solutions, we’ve just completed our July-August update of Airports Using Facebook. We now are tracking over 160 airports, including the Top 30 International Airports, as defined by Airports Council International (ACI). In this post, we focused only on airports that use Facebook as a social media platform, as defined by an active Facebook … Read more
Lots of you must be familiar with the rapping flight attendant at Southwest Airlines – who gave a brand new twist to the decades old safety demonstration. Then we had the safety video at Air New Zealand where flight attendants wore nothing but body-paint. Now, from the Philippines come the Cebu Pacific flight attendants dancing … Read more
After 12,000 votes in just over a week were received, the top 3 most voted airlines made their presentations to the panel of judges before the winners were decided, for the inaugural SimpliFlying Awards in Social Media Excellence for airlines. These presentations were made at the SimpliFlying-Airline Business ‘Social media for the aviation industry‘ conference held … Read more
This the Live coverage (click here if you can’t see it) from the inaugural SimpliFlying-Airline Business ‘Social media for the aviation industry‘ conference being held in London on Oct 1, 2010, specially for those who aren’t able to attend. The detailed agenda can be found here. The conference begins at 9.20am London time. The award … Read more
Most of us familiar with AirAsia X know their deep desire to fly in to Sydney, but they’re being hindered by the Malaysian government (Malaysia Airlines’ ex-CEO is in the govt). So to raise the tempo, what does AirAsia X do? They take a leaf out of Virgin Atlantic’s books. Take a look for yourself…. … Read more
When was the last time you lost track of your phone? When faced with this simple question over a quarter of Americans are unable to answer, and another 24% will say the lose track of it for less than 30min per day. It is a symptom of an increasingly connected world where users’ behaviors are changing … Read more
If you recall, we had run a contest to give away two passes and two free tickets to the 1st conference on social media for airlines, being held in London on Oct 1. To win, participants had to tweet or comment questions to be asked during the conference. The competition was won by Sven Solterbeck … Read more
Over coffee in Kuala Lumpur… I had an intriguing debate with a new friend (and long-time Twitter follower) during my recent trip to Kuala Lumpur. When I asked about her organization’s resistance to even listening about the brand on social media – her answer was that their Head of Corp. Comms strongly feels that if … Read more
After 10 days and 104 nominations (!!), the voting to determine the best airlines in social media is now open and you can vote right here. As part of the inaugural SimpliFlying-Airline Business ‘Social media for the aviation industry‘ conference being held in London on Oct 1, 2010, we launched an awards scheme to recognise … Read more
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