8 JUNE 2020
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Article from BTNews 8 JUNE 2020
World Aviation Festival on Zoom
One time PR Director to Sir Richard Branson at Virgin Atlantic Airlines, and now heading his own consultancy, Paul Charles last week hosted a fascinating session on Zoom for the World Aviation Festival.
“Supply & Demand: How is Travel Forever Changed."
His guests were Robyn Grassanovits, Cirium, VP Travel Products & Emerging Business, Cirium, the aviation consultancy, and Mikko Turtiainen, VP Market Management, Finnair.
This was one of a series of free webinar discussions World Aviation Festival is hosting over the summer as we lead up to the real event.
The full 60min recording is here.
BTN is now able to link you to last week's webinar which was featured in the 2 June issue of BTN.
An interview with József Váradi, CEO of Wizz Air Holdings by John Strickland
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Tuesday 9 June, 15:00 (BST) - The Travel Payment value chain, impact of Covid-19 and what’s next. Sponsored by MasterCard.
Topics include:
- Airline and Travel Payments trends before COVID-19
- Impact of COVID-19 on the industry in general and payments in particular
- Cancellations/refunds/vouchers/chargebacks: best practices and guidelines
- Changes in consumer payment preferences
- B2B payments: streamlining the money flow and ramping up sales via travel agencies
- Virtual Card Numbers: is right pricing possible?
Contributions from:
| Paul van Alfen | Managing Director, Up in the Air Travel Payment Consultancy (moderator) |
| Chris Fendley | EVP Market Development Enterprise Partnership, Mastercard |
| Michael Oliva | Director Franchise Management, MasterCard |
| Chiara Quaia | VP Market Development Travel, MasterCard |
| Thomas Helldorff | VP Airlines & Travel, Worldpay from FIS and Aurthor of "Airline Payments Handbook" |
| William Pershke | VP Airline Consulting, Elavon |
Thursday 11 June,19:00 (BST) – Joanna Geraghty, President, JetBlue
Bloomberg’s Guy Johnson in an exclusive interview:
- The State of play of aviation in the US
- What essential steps are JetBlue taking to face this pandemic head on and retain their position as a trusted U.S brand?
- What are the global standards needed to guide us out of this crisis?
- How is technology helping us adapt the travel experience to suit a post Covid world?
- Why investment in start-up companies is more essential than ever and how much importance will JetBlue place on JetBlue Tech Ventures in the near future?
Details and registration can be found World Aviation Festival website
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