Travel Industry

Covid-Era Travel Risks Are Changing: What to Consider So You Don’t Get Stranded

Wall Street Journal Sudden border closures. Quarantines. Given the new risks, the days of improvised trips for business or pleasure have become endangered in the Covid-19 era.  The new Omicron variant did more than prompt governments to quickly close borders and tighten Covid-19-related travel restrictions. It signaled that health disruptions are here to stay as […]

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American Express Global Business Travel Nears $5.3 Billion Spac Deal

The Street That may be an optimistic view as a recent analysis of data from business leaders done by the Wall Street Journal suggests that business travel may drop 19% to 36% permanently.  “Brick-and-mortar retail has been devastated by ecommerce and I think this is a parallel story,’’ Jay Sorensen, president of IdeaWorks, an airline-industry

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Six Ways the Airline Business has Changed – a Report by IdeaWorksCompany

Future Travel Experience There has been much debate for years about identifying the key feature of the air travel product. The pandemic effectively delivered an answer – it’s the destination that matters most, highlights a new ancillary-focused report by aviation and travel business consultancy IdeaWorksCompany and its sponsor, CarTrawler. The report is written by IdeaWorksCompany

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Low-Cost Carriers Fly Above Covid-19 Turbulence

Adweek “The moment really belongs to low-cost carriers,” said Jay Sorensen, president of international travel consulting firm IdeaWorksCompany. “All of this is pointing toward a world in which all airlines will compete more heavily for leisure travelers. Low-cost carriers are already there, in terms of carrying those passengers, so I think that carriers such as

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Reprise du Trafic Aérien: les Revenus Annexes en Hausse de 13% en 2021

Air Journal (France) Translated:  Resumption of Air Traffic: Ancillary Revenues Up 13% in 2021 La dernière étude de CarTrawler et IdeaWorksCompany montre que les revenus annexes ponctionnés par les compagnies aériennes dans le monde devraient passer à 65,8 milliards de dollars cette année. Selon l’étude publiée la semaine dernière, les revenus complémentaires des 109 compagnies

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International Travel Comeback Grounded By Pandemic Realities

Adweek When British Airways Flight BA1 left London and touched down at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport on Nov. 8, it was supposed to mark a return to normalcy for the entire travel industry after the widespread disruption caused by Covid-19.  As the world has discovered repeatedly during this pandemic, even a transatlantic flight can’t

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Hotels Try Out Fees for Using the Pool and Checking In Early

Wall Street Journal One of the largest U.S. hotel owners is experimenting this year with a new business strategy: Charge guests for most services and amenities, just like in the airline industry.  In 2019, airlines world-wide collected $75.6 billion in a la carte revenue, more than doubling what they collected in 2015, according to a

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Asian Carriers Dominated 2020 with China Southern Bumping American Airlines from Top Slot – Press Release

The new Datalex Big Book of Airline Data by IdeaWorksCompany offers passenger traffic, airline revenue, and frequent flyer info for 188 airlines from Aegean to Zhuhai.  Dublin, Ireland & Shorewood, Wisconsin, 12 August 2021: Datalex, a market leader in digital commerce for retail travel, and IdeaWorksCompany, the foremost consultant on ancillary revenue, have released the second

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Datalex Big Book of Airline Data by IdeaWorksCompany – Report

Datalex, a market leader in digital commerce for retail travel, and IdeaWorksCompany, the foremost consultant on ancillary revenue, have released the second edition of The Datalex Big Book of Airline Data by IdeaWorksCompany. The 2021 edition provides a world of airline industry data collated by alphabetical order, size, airline type, region, and alliance.  The first

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