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.
In an about-face, the U.K.’s opposition Labor Party says it will not support a third runway at London Heathrow Airport, shadow Transport Secretary Maria Eagle tells the annual Airport Operators Association conference in London. The Labor Party, under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, had rubber-stamped BAA’s application for the runway, but the approval was scrapped by the incoming coalition government following the last election.
LAN Airlines of Chile has placed a firm order for 20 Airbus A320NEO aircraft, making it the first airline in Latin America to fully commit to Airbus’s new engine option, bringing LAN’s total orders of Airbus aircraft to 170. LAN CEO Ignacio Cueto said that adding the A320NEO to the fleet “is a huge step in ensuring LAN’s leadership in the region.” An engine selection is still to be announced.
For airport operators, getting in bed with one of Europe's most fractious airlines at a facility the government does not want to see expand may not seem like an attractive proposition, but the anticipated forced sale of Stansted Airport may yet defy skeptics.
