The route development consultancy Airport Strategy and Marketing (ASM) has worked with the Colombian city of Cartagena to secure its only direct route to Europe.
Airport cities should participate in route development and collaborate more closely with airlines, according to David Stroud, managing director of Airport Strategy and Marketing (ASM).
Airport, Strategy and Marketing (ASM)’s Forecast 1 is an affordable passenger route forecasting tool that allows the user to test scenarios for a target route market and report these outputs that the airlines are looking for.
The Spanish carrier is due to start service to Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras in April 2017. This route will be the nineteenth link to the Americas served by the airline.
The aviation industry supports 3.5 percent of the world’s GDP. More than 100,000 flights take off daily, serving 9.8 million passengers. Route development is important to the global economy – this paper will give you an introduction and overview on the topic.
Yesterday’s Routes Africa Strategy Summit highlighted some of the most interesting aspects of aviation in Africa today. More than a dozen high-profile speakers debated some of the key topics impacting the aviation business across the region.
An open skies arrangement is unlikely to be introduced in Africa until governments on the continent see their airlines as businesses, not personal play things. Speaking at the Routes Africa Strategy Summit in Tenerife, Raphael Kuuchi, the vice president of Africa at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said the failure of countries to accept the need for liberalisation was endemic across the continent.
African airlines are too small to survive alone and need to work together more if they are to continue doing business in an increasingly global world. In fact it was suggested that unless a small airline could evolve, grow, and develop partnerships with others, it would simply fail.
