Senior Director, Group Digital Content Strategy, Aviation Week Network
London, UK
Summary
Rupa leads the Aviation Week Network's digital content strategy, content marketing and audience engagement.
Since joining in 2010, Rupa has ushered Aviation Week into a more mobile, social and digitally interactive era. She leads a team that has won several awards for excellence in digital content and social media.
Previously, she led multi-stakeholder communications at London City Airport where she was responsible for a number of high profile campaigns. Prior to that, she worked in brand communications and public relations roles in the business and leisure travel industry.
Several leading U.K. aviation figures lashed out angrily yesterday in response to the Chancellor’s failure to address the controversial air passenger duty (APD) in the country’s Autumn Statement. The planned increase in the APD, announced in the March 2011 budget, will be double the rate of inflation. The increase goes into effect in April.
The European Commission has added airlines from four countries to the list of carriers banned from flying into the European Union, and partially lifted a ban on TAAG Angola Airlines. Jordan Aviation has been restricted from operating three of its Boeing 767s into the EU due to “numerous and repeated safety deficiencies.” The EC said it will support Jordan and the carrier to improve safety “in a sustainable manner.”
Jens Flottau (Dubai), Robert Wall (Dubai), Rupa Haria (Dubai)
When manufacturers set out to define a new aircraft, they always say their product decisions are driven by long discussions with airlines. But do the airframers really listen? As Boeing, Embraer and ATR work on defining new aircraft to enter service toward the end of the decade, Airbus is experiencing how dangerously wrong things can go when key customers differ with product decisions.
