CarTrawler-sponsored analysis describes how the pandemic, technology, and environmental concerns have changed airline business travel. It could be a year in which the airline industry recovers some of the profits lost during the pandemic. That’s the picture for leisure travel, especially in the burgeoning premium leisure sector. The recovery of business travel is complex and
The recovery of business travel is complex and largely unwritten. Online meeting technology continues to march ahead, company employees are still working from home, corporations are setting carbon reductions tied to business travel, and the airline industry still struggles to find firmer footing. Innovation and resilience saved airlines during the pandemic, and these same traits
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means 2022 will likely be another year of upheaval in the airline business, according to a report issued by IdeaWorks, a Shorewood-based air travel consultancy. The report was issued in late November by IdeaWorks in conjunction with Dublin, Ireland-based CarTrawler, a global provider of technology solutions for the travel
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Hustle An illustrated explainer on the decline of business travel — and how it could wreak havoc on your cheap economy tickets.
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