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AviaDev Insight Europe

131 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -

AviaDev Insight Europe is the only podcast dedicated to the regional European aviation industry.

We bring prominent industry voices to the table to gain an insight into the inner working of all parts of the industry.

The podcast is hosted by Juraj Toth, Managing Director at AviaDev Europe.

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Episode 130 with József Váradi: Wizz Air is going to fly 140% of its 2019 capacity this summer

April 05, 2022 07:56 - 7 minutes - 11.3 MB

Today's episode is really special. I recorded the interview with Wizz Air CEO József Váradi in Cluj at Aviation-Event on 31st March 2022. In a short but very dynamic interview I asked Mr. Váradi about Wizz Air's expectations for the upcoming summer season, their plans for London Gatwick, their ultimate growth plan for 2030 and I also asked him a bit personal questions at the very end. Let me also apologize for a slightly lower sound quality of this interview as it was recorded in Cluj Ai...

Episode 129 with David Perez: Tearing down the stereotypes as Tenerife recovers

March 21, 2022 14:30 - 15 minutes - 22.9 MB

David Perez is the CEO at Turismo de Tenerife. This episode was recorded on site, in David's office in Santa Cruz. With David we discussed how the tourism industry, so vital for the island, performed in 2021, what’s the focus and the key strategic markets for Tenerife this year, which stereotypes about the destination they plan to tear down and also what’s new about a very interesting project of Canarian Airways, now called Lattitude Hub.

Episode 128 with Claus Raasted. The moment we stop living, society loses

March 15, 2022 09:56 - 23 minutes - 19.3 MB

This is probably the most important podcast I've ever done and definitely the most personal one. Even though the topic is not related to aviation directly.  Following the Russian brutal military invasion to Ukraine, like many people in Europe, I got stuck and paralysed by an intensive mixture of feelings. Anger, fear, anxiety, uncertainty, sadness... All of this was of course multiplied by the fact that I live around 80 km from Slovak-Ukrainian border. Also, it just felt wrong to me to go ...

Episode 127 with Marcel Riwalsky - Building bridges between aviation and generic media

February 23, 2022 10:15 - 21 minutes - 17.1 MB

AviaDev Europe is delighted to announce new partnership with Aviation Event, a German media company that is focused on building bridges between the world of aviation and traditional media. In this episode Juraj Toth speaks with Marcel Riwalsky, the CEO of Aviation Event about the past, present and future of of Aviation Event with the emphasis on the next edition of Aviation Event which is planned to take place directly at the terminal of Cluj Airport in Romania on 31st of March.  For mor...

Episode 126 with Jonay Lobo: When you put in a new route you make people happy

February 15, 2022 16:09 - 22 minutes - 9.64 MB

Jonay Lobo is Chief of Network, Revenue Management and Alliances at Binter, a regional airline based in he Canary Islands. With Jonay I discussed their 2021 results, what's their experience been so far with with the new Embraer E2 aircraft, what's their route development strategy for 2022 and beyond and what are Jonay's expectations towards so much needed recovery of aviation and tourism. AviaDev Europe 2022 (30Nov - 2 Dec) will be the only route development event taking place in Europe ...

Episode 125 with Tony Hallwood: Let's talk about travel at our dinner tables again

February 10, 2022 10:41 - 32 minutes - 28.3 MB

This is the episode no. 125 of AviaDev Insight Europe Podcast and my guest today is Tony Hallwood. Tony’s been a valued member of AviaDev Europe team since 2019. Then he had a little break caused by the pandemic, but now he is back on the team at full strength and more enthusiastic than ever. We discussed how Tony kept himself busy during the pandemic, what are his thoughts on so much needed recovery in the European aviation and tourism industry, what challenges and opportunities he sees...

Episode 124 Birgir Jonsson: Still young Icelandic airline PLAYing offense

February 02, 2022 14:50 - 29 minutes - 26 MB

My guest today is Birgir Jonsson, CEO of Play. I had the pleasure to interview Birgir and one of his rivals Bjoern Torre Larsen, the CEO of Norse Atlantic Airways back in November at the Future Flying Forum. A lot has changed since then: Play has already announced 3 destinations in the US which will be inaugurated in the upcoming months. With Birgir we discussed their approach towards route development, if we can expect any more regional airports in their network and how optimistic he is a...

Episode 123 with Luka Popovic: Aviation stories from former Yugoslavia

January 25, 2022 12:06 - 30 minutes - 29.8 MB

When he was 17, Luka Popovic started a blog covering the aviation stories from the region where he lived: former Yugoslavia. Fast forward 14 year and that blog is now his full time job and a passion project at the same time. Meet EX-YU Aviation, the new media partner of AviaDev Europe! In the interview Luka shares his personal aviation journey and a few milestones from the history of EX-YU Aviation.  We also talk about what's going on in the in the aviation market in this region: we covere...

Episode 122 with Alejandro Nunez Vicente and Luca Zocche: The Economy Seat of the Future

January 13, 2022 09:41 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MB

This is a special episode, as I´m not talking to any representative of an airports, airline, tourism board or industry association.  Today I´m talking to two extraordinary enthusiastic young gentlemen who are aiming to disrupt the economy class seating in the wide body aircraft. Alejandro Nunez Vicente is the man behind the idea and Luca Zocche is his CCO in the project called Chaise Longue - The Economy Seat of the Future.  We´re discussing all things about their project, what makes it ...

Episode 121. Aviation Talkshow SKYHEROES_The Christmas Edition

December 23, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 43.8 MB

This is a recording of the 6th episode of SkyHeroes from 21 December 2021. SkyHeroes is the aviation talkshow where 3 of industry experts share their open opinions on hot aviation topics in a light way, sometimes controversial, sometimes not completely politically correct, sometimes funny. But if we can still laugh, even in these difficult times, it means we are still alive, right? This time our experts were John Grant, Hans Joergen Elnaes and Max Oldorf and the topics included: 1. Winners...

Episode 120 with Laurent Donceel: Global methane emissions reduced by 30% is roughly the equivalent of bringing all modes of transport to net zero

December 20, 2021 15:15 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MB

My guest today is Laurent Donceel, senior policy director at Airlines for Europe. With Laurent we discussed all things about aviation´s focus on sustainability. Laurent highlighted his takeaways from the transport day at COP26, we touched on forming of the aviation Climate Ambition Coalition, who´s holding back the Single European Sky and where we are with Destination 2050.

Episode 119 with Marina Bylinsky: Guiding the airports on the journey to net zero

December 08, 2021 14:10 - 37 minutes - 28.4 MB

My guest today is Marina Bylinsky, head of sustainability at ACI Europe. ACI Europe is association that groups over 500 airports in 55 countries that facilitate over 90% of commercial air traffic in Europe. In response to the Climate Emergency, in June 2019 ACI Europe´s members committed to achieving Net Zero carbon emissions for operations under their control by 2050, without offsetting. The main topic of today´s conversation with Marina is Airport Carbon Accreditation - the only instit...

Episode 118 with Dirk Singer: Understanding The Impact of The Omicron Variant

November 30, 2021 12:05 - 22 minutes - 19 MB

In the light of the recent events AviaDev team talks to Dirk Singer, Head of Research at Simpliflying who has been covering the implications of the pandemic on the world of travel since the early days. Also today, Dirk is very actively commenting end explaining the current situation on Linkedin and also on Simpliflying corona weekly newsletter. On 25th November we heard the first news about a new variant of covid-19 which was discovered by the scientists in South Africa and later it was ...

Episode 117 with Hans Jørgen Elnæs: Lufthansa repaying its debt, trends from Dubai Airshow and update on Scandinavia

November 23, 2021 05:08 - 33 minutes - 27.3 MB

Hans Jørgen Elnæs is an independent aviation analyst based in Oslo with rich experience from the aviation world including work for Ryanair and Qatar Airways.  Hans is also a great friend of AviaDev and one of our SkyHeroes. This time we sat together and discussed some of the hot topics from the world of aviation, including Lufthansa repaying its debt to the German government, which trends could Hans see as a result of the Dubai Airshow, what´s going on in the sky above Scandinavia and much...

Episode 116. The Rise of Green Travel with Shashank Nigam

November 17, 2021 13:17 - 39 minutes - 33.3 MB

This is a recording of a session from Future Flying Forum 2021 – an online event by Simple Flying and AviaDev that took place on 10-11 November. In this session I had the great pleasure to speak to Shashank Nigam, CEO and founder at Simpliflying. Just a few days ago Shashank and his team introduced the pathway towards the green passenger journey – a material called The Rise of Green Travel which you can download for free at simpliflying.com. In this session Shashank gave us a tour about se...

Episode 115. Can low cost long haul ever really work?

November 15, 2021 09:31 - 55 minutes - 41.3 MB

This is a recording of a session from Future Flying Forum 2021 – an online event by Simple Flying and AviaDev that took place on 10-11 November. In this session I had the great pleasure to interview two CEOs of airlines that are on the path to play a significant role on the transatlantic market. So the title of discussion with Birgir JonssonCEO of Play and Bjorn Tore Larsen, CEO of Norse Atlantic Airways was can low cost long haul ever really work.

Episode 113. Aviation Talkshow SKYHEROES_The October Edition

October 07, 2021 08:30 - 54 minutes - 39.5 MB

This is a recording of the fourth episode of SkyHeroes - the aviation talkshow brought to you by AviaDev where 3 of our industry experts share their open opinions on hot aviation topics in a light way, sometimes controversial, sometimes not completely politically correct, sometimes also funny. But if we can still laugh, even in these difficult times, it means we are still alive, right? This time our experts were John Grant, Hans Joergen Elnaes and Joanna Bailey and the topics we were discu...

Episode 112 with James Pearson: Fascinating dynamics of route development

September 24, 2021 10:45 - 20 minutes - 16.6 MB

My guest today was James Pearson, route development analyst at Simple Flying. James has dedicated most of his aviation career to route development so no wonder his name resonates with many members of this community and I´m sure a lot of you, our listeners know James very well, too. So we discussed route development from various angles, what makes James so passionate about it and how he sees its fascinating dynamics to develop in the future.

Episode 111 with Juan Gómez: European summer 2021 in a nutshell: the winners, the losers and the trends that are here to stay

September 02, 2021 09:24 - 30 minutes - 25.6 MB

Juan Gómez works as Insights Expert at ForwardKeys, a long term friends of AviaDev. Together with Juan we took a close look on tourism in Europe during summer 2021, which slowely but surely comes to its end. Juan identified the winners of the summer - those countries and destinations that performed very well and what made them so successful. I also asked Juan about some predictions for the upcoming future: what can we expect in the next 3-5 months, will there be any Christmas markets relat...

Episode 110. Introducing The Future Flying Forum

August 17, 2021 12:15 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MB

In today´s episode we discuss with Arran Rice (CEO & Founder at Simple Flying), Joanna Bailey (Managing Editor at SimpleFlying) and Jon Howell (CEO & Founder at AviaDev) new online event: The Future Flying Forum. The event is brought to you by SimpleFlying and powered by AviaDev. Safely strapped into your own comfortable seat, we’ll follow the sun from East to West, touching down along the way to chat with aviation’s leading CEOs. More information and registration is available at futuref...

Episode 109 with Pete Downes: The recovery story of Cornwall Airport Newquay

August 04, 2021 11:59 - 31 minutes - 24.6 MB

This is the second part of my discussion with Pete. In the previous episode we talked about his aviation journey, the transition process from a route development role at LCY to Managing Director position at NQY and about the once in a lifetime experience of organizing the arrivals and departures of various international delegations for the G7 summit earlier this year. Today we are going to talk about the recovery process at Cornwall Airport Newquay, where is the airport now in terms of its...

Episode 108 with Pete Downes from Cornwall Airport Newquay: A true masterclass in airport management

July 30, 2021 04:43 - 37 minutes - 28.5 MB

Pete Downes is a managing director at Cornwall Airport Newquay. We´ve all had experienced interesting 18  months to say the least, but what Pete himself and together with his team at Newquay Airport went through is just fascinating. Our discussion was a bit longer than usually, so I decided we´ll split it into two episodes. So this is part one of the interview with Pete where we discuss his aviation journey, the transition process from a route development role at London City Airport to the m...

Episode 107 with Juliana Kiraly: New certification for E2, the turboprop project and approach to sustainability at Embraer

June 28, 2021 07:33 - 29 minutes - 23.6 MB

Our guest today is Juliana Kiraly, Marketing Manager Europe at Embraer. Juliana has already enjoyed many years at Embraer working on several different positions. In the interview we covered several interesting topics such as the recent certification of the Embraer E2-190 for steep approach at London City Airport, project of the new turboprop aircraft which Embraer is developing and also how they approach sustainability at Embraer.

Episode 106 with Nick Ahston from DOHOP: Lifelong passion for connections and partnerships

June 21, 2021 09:42 - 44 minutes - 36.2 MB

In this interview with AviaDev Europe´s Managing Director Juraj Toth, Nick Ashton, Head of Partnerships and Industry Affairs at DOHOP shares his personal journey through which he developed true passion for creating partnerships and connections within the aviation world. Inevitably, he ended up at DOHOP where he can work even closer with various industry palyers using virtual interlining and intermodality as some of the solutions for better future for the whole travel ecosystem.

Episode 105 with Ferenc Kis: Achieving net zero is like paying off the mortgage. You need a plan for both

May 14, 2021 09:49 - 36 minutes - 26.2 MB

Ferenc Kis works as a business development director at RSK Group, an environmental consultancy firm from UK. Prior to that Ferenc spent 8 years at Budapest Airport developing and executing airport´s sustainability strategy as head of environmental protection. Naturally, we spoke about sustainability a lot, especially where it links to aviation and Ferenc´s experience. We discussed NetZero2050, hydrogen vs. electric and other related topics. Especially airport managers can find a lot of i...

Episode 104. Becca Rowland: There is no connectivity in isolation

May 06, 2021 12:35 - 20 minutes - 16.1 MB

This time I spoke with Becca Rowland, partner at MIDAS Aviation, which is the engine behind AviaDev Consult a boutique consultancy we created together. The team at MIDAS Aviation recently prepared a report which is titled No Blue Skies. What Becca and her colleagues are saying is that the demand for air travel is not likely to pick up until the second half of the year, at the earliest. So we discussed not just the outcomes of the report but also the reasoning behind it and what are Becca´s...

Episode 103. Aviation Talkshow SkyHeroes_The April Edition

April 28, 2021 15:17 - 58 minutes - 43.1 MB

This is a recording of the fourth episode of SkyHeroes - the aviation talkshow brought to you by AviaDev where 3 of our industry experts share their open opinions on hot aviation topics in a light way, sometimes controversial, sometimes not completely politically correct, sometimes also funny. But if we can still laugh, even in these difficult times, it means we are still alive, right? This time our experts were John Grant, Hans Jorgen Elnaes and Max Oldorf and the topics we were discussin...

Episode 102 with Elena Skalovskaia and Vincent Lambercy from FoxATM: The ATM triangle

April 15, 2021 10:08 - 33 minutes - 25.4 MB

This time I had great discussion with two members of the team at FoxATM: Elena Skalovskaia, Business Development Manager and Aviation Consultant and Vincent Lambercy, freelance air traffic management consultant. Elena and Vincent shared with us not just their personal aviation journeys and the background of FoxATM, but also a very interesting story of how they started to work together. There are some insightful lessons there especially for young aspiring aviators but also for those of us w...

Episode 101 with Thomas Reynaert: Airline industry on a journey towards Destination 2050

April 08, 2021 11:53 - 32 minutes - 24.6 MB

Our guest today is Thomas Reynaert, managing director at A4E - Airlines for Europe, an airline association with headquarters in Brussels. In the interview Thomas shared with us the story of A4E – how and why it was founded back in 2016. 5 years later A4E represents a very strong industry voice covering around 70% of European Air traffic. The major topic of our discussion with Thomas was Destination2050 – an initiative with the ultimate goal to reach net zero carbon emissions from European ...

Episode 100 with Miguel Angel Perez: Sustainability at the core of tourism development in Valencia

April 01, 2021 09:04 - 33 minutes - 25.6 MB

For this very special episode we have a very special guest: the one and only Miguel Angel Perez, Brand and markets director at Visit Valencia. Miguel was our very first guest on the show back in May 2018, so almost 3 years ago. Today we have him back on to discuss what´s behind the strategy for sustainable tourism development in Valencia, what does it mean for Valencia as a destination to be recognized as the healthiest city in the world to live in and what are Miguel´s expectations about ...

Episode 99 with Matteo Bonecchi: EGO Airways taking off

March 24, 2021 11:18 - 24 minutes - 19.5 MB

Today I had the opportunity to talk to Matteo Bonechi, CEO of a new Italian airline EGO Airways. It´s exciting times for the whole team there as they are getting ready to launch their operations in a couple of days, on the 30th March 2021. With Matteo we discussed their strategy, business model, fleet, and plans for growth. Launching a new airline is enormously complex task in any period of time, but now in the middle of pandemic I can not even imagine how difficult it must be. But Matteo ...

Episode 98. Aviation Talkshow SkyHeroes_The March Edition

March 12, 2021 14:04 - 58 minutes - 45.2 MB

This is a recording of a brand new format we introduced at AviaDev: SkyHeroes. SkyHeroes is the aviation talkshow where 3 of industry experts share their open opinions on hot aviation topics in a light way, sometimes controversial, sometimes not completely politically correct, sometimes funny. But if we can still laugh, even in these difficult times, it means we are still alive, right? This time our experts were John Grant, Sean Mendis and Max Oldorf and the topics we were discussing inclu...

Episode 97 with Dirk Singer: How will we fly this summer?

February 24, 2021 11:56 - 50 minutes - 38.1 MB

This is a recording of a live interview Juraj Toth did with Dirk Singer on 23 February 2021. Dirk works as a Research Director at Simpliflying. He produces daily newsletter with updates on how aviation, travel and tourism are responding to the ongoing pandemic, what measures are here to stay, how travel will look like in the part vaccinated world and other related topics. Dirk is one of the very few people out there following the implications of the pandemic on air travel very closely f...

096_New aviation talkshow by AviaDev: Sky Heroes

February 04, 2021 16:15 - 1 hour - 48.3 MB

This is a recording of a brand new format we introduced at AviaDev: SkyHeroes. SkyHeroes is the aviation talkshow where 3 of industry experts share their open opinions on hot aviation topics in a light way, sometimes controversial, sometimes not completely politically correct, sometimes funny. But if we can still laugh, even in these difficult times, it means we are still alive, right? This time our experts were John Grant, Hans Jorgen Elnaes and Max Oldorf and the topics we were discussin...

Episode 96. New aviation talkshow by AviaDev: Sky Heroes

February 04, 2021 16:15 - 1 hour - 48.3 MB

This is a recording of a brand new format we introduced at AviaDev: SkyHeroes. SkyHeroes is the aviation talkshow where 3 of industry experts share their open opinions on hot aviation topics in a light way, sometimes controversial, sometimes not completely politically correct, sometimes funny. But if we can still laugh, even in these difficult times, it means we are still alive, right? This time our experts were John Grant, Hans Jorgen Elnaes and Max Oldorf and the topics we were discussin...

Episode 95 with René Armas Maes: How to plan for tourism restart and recovery

February 03, 2021 11:49 - 26 minutes - 20.7 MB

My guest today is René Armas Maés, Regional Partner Latin America at MIDAS Aviation.  Recently the team at MIDAS have created an online course titled Tourism Restart and Recovery Plan. As René explained in the interview, the course is aimed at those working in governments, official tourism boards and associations, tourism businesses and other key players in the tourism eco-system. It provides the tools and essential guidance to understand the opportunities and challenges the tourism indust...

Episode 94 with Charlotte Hardenbol. SkyNRG taking another step towards making sustainable aviation fuel the new gold standard

January 26, 2021 11:10 - 23 minutes - 17.4 MB

Charlotte Hardenbol works as a Head of Programs and Solutions at the Dutch company SkyNRG, the pioneer and global leader for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) solutions with a mission to make SAF the new global standard.     In the interview Charlotte explained how important the support of the Refuel EU initiative was in setting up a new Alcohol to Jet facility on which SkyNRG cooperates with US company Lanzatech and their daughter company Lanzajet. Charlotte also introduced new exciting i...

Episode 93. Ged Brown tirelessly drawing a brighter future for tourism industry through Low Season Traveller

January 18, 2021 11:24 - 33 minutes - 24.1 MB

We´re starting new year of AviaDev Insight Europe Podcast with a former member of the AviaDev team Ged Brown. Ged runs his own business, Low Season Traveller, in something what´s possibly the worst time ever to start a new business in this sector. While talking to Ged I was thinking about a famous quote attributed to Winston Churchill, which goes like this: "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." The energy and passion which is still in Ged´s voice despite al...

Episode 92. AviaDev´s 2020 in a nutshell with Jon Howell

December 23, 2020 09:10 - 23 minutes - 19.7 MB

In this year´s last episode I spoke to my boss and friend, CEO & Founder of AviaDev, Jon Howell. We discussed the main reasons AviaDev as a business survived this devastating year, what were the hardest challenges to overcome and what we have learned, what were the highlights of the year for us, some personal silver linings and what we expect 2021 will bring. Thank you everyone for your support, for listening to the podcast and we shall see you in 2021, which can only be better. 

Episode 91 with Kam Jandu: Route Development, Traffic Recovery, 10 Marathons and a Pizza for Whitney Houston

December 17, 2020 13:05 - 59 minutes - 47.4 MB

After 11,5 years of working for Budapest Airport, most of that time as a CCO, Kam Jandu has left Budapest on 15 December 2020. But couple of days prior to that I got the chance to talk to him and also to ask him some very interesting questions submitted in advance by members of our community. The interview is really great and Kam shared lots of his wisdom, great experience and also one little secret: he once made a pizza for Whitney Houston! 

Episode 90 with Kevin Cullinane: Cork Airport focusing on the silver lining of the pandemic

December 10, 2020 09:02 - 39 minutes - 32.8 MB

My guest today is Kevin Cullinane, Head of Communications at Cork Airport. Despite enormous negative impact of the pandemic on the whole aviation sector in Ireland, Kevin still sees a silver lining. Government´s strict position on protecting the health of the nation paid its dividends as Ireland has one of the lowest infection rates in Europe. Recently government also recognized the massive challenges the sector has to face. Kevin shared with us how they plan to invest those EUR 22M they wil...

Episode 89. Proper avgeeks can actually run a successful business. Here´s how

December 02, 2020 11:21 - 58 minutes - 42.9 MB

This is our episode no. 89. and it´s a very special one. The reason I´m saying is special is that I don´t have just one guest. I have two: Max Oldorf and Thomas Jaeger and they are the founders of ch-aviation. On today´s show they shared a lot of stories from the history of this company which early beginnings go back to 1998. Some of the stories are incredible, some are even hard to believe. But one thing is certain: what ch-aviaiton is built on is pure love for the aviation. And I guess in ...

Episode 88. The prospects of dedicated capacity provider in the future of European aviation with Jan Palmer

November 25, 2020 10:39 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB

Jan Palmer is the CEO & Chairman of the management board at Xfly. Back in October this year, Jan was elected also as the President of the European Regions Airline Association. So we naturally spoke about the future of European regional aviation in the post pandemic world. Jan also explained the business model of Xfly being the dedicated capacity provider which is something very common in the US, but not that much in Europe.

Episode 87. Andreas Slettvoll: Making climate action available for everyone through frictionless and transparent carbon offsetting

November 19, 2020 09:09 - 44 minutes - 36 MB

My guest today is Andreas Slettvoll, CEO & founder at Chooose. Chooose is a Norwegian company that delivers solutions making climate action available for everyone. Recently Wizz Air partnered with Chooose so travellers flying Wizz Air can now offset their carbon footprint using Chooose. Andreas explained carbon offsetting is not the only one solution for climate change – it´s just one of several tools enabling us to act now. There were also two words Andreas deliberately used a lot – “fricti...

Episode 86. Marja Aalto sharing the story of Tampere

November 11, 2020 10:25 - 24 minutes - 18.9 MB

My guest today is Marja Aalto, Senior Specialist in Aviation at Visit Tampere. Marja explains what makes Tampere Airport now the 2nd busiest in Finland, how does the cooperation between Visit Tampere and Finavia look like and what you can expect when you visit this charming city. By the way, did you know Tampere is considered as the world sauna capital? Neither did I :)

Episode 85. Better late then never. A report from BER opening by Máté Bence Tóth

November 04, 2020 14:06 - 21 minutes - 18.1 MB

Máté Bence Tóth works as a Key Account Manager for the Travel Content Acquisition team at Kiwi.com. In addition to that, Máté and his 2 friends have their own aviation podcast in Hungarian language, called Hetes Terminal. And thanks to this, Mate was able to experience a truly historical event – long awaited opening of new Berlin Brandenburg Airport, first hand in Berlin couple of days ago. Today Mate shares with us not just his impression from the opening ceremony, but also his experience f...

Episode 84. Andrew Charlton - a different kind of aviation geek

October 28, 2020 16:19 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MB

My guest today is Andrew Charlton, MD at Aviation Advocacy, an independent aviation focused strategic consultant and true aviation industry geek. Even though Andrew has spent last 3 decades in the business, I have to admit I´ve just discovered him recently, as he is moderating Aviation HardTalk series for Eurocontrol where he interviews some of the most respected aviation leaders. We obviously touched on that a little bit and we also discussed how bad we are in promoting some of the miracu...

Episode 83. The Future of Sustainable Aviation Fuel with Jennifer Holmgren

October 20, 2020 15:48 - 15 minutes - 13.2 MB

We actually already had Jennifer on the podcast exactly 2 years ago, in the episode 15. Back then we spoke about the historical Virgin Atlantic flight from Orlando to London Gatwick which was partly fuelled by the Sustainable Aviation Fuel produced by Lanzatech. In this episode I asked Jennifer what progress has been made in the last 2 years and how she expects the future will look like in the next ten years in terms of aircraft propulsion. Jennifer made some very interesting points to tak...

Episode 82. Max Oldorf commenting on further fleet reduction at Lufthansa, futuristic concept introduced by Airbus and IATA´s call for testing

September 29, 2020 12:11 - 38 minutes - 29.7 MB

My guest today is Max Oldorf, CCO at CH-aviation. Every now and then we get together with Max to discuss news from the world of commercial aviation. And that´s we did today. Max shares his thoughts on further fleet reduction and other developments at Lufthansa, new hydrogen concept presented by Airbus and finally IATA´s call for covid-testing of air passengers before departure.

Episode 81. Customer support in the spotlight with Cesar Pereira, new VP for EMEA at Embraer Commercial Aviation

September 09, 2020 04:29 - 19 minutes - 14.6 MB

My guest today is Cesar Pereira, new VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Embraer Commercial Aviation. Embraer has been a partner and supporter of AviaDev for a couple of years now and we are glad that the team of Embraer will be joining us also at the upcoming aviaDev Europe 2020 online event. Ahead of this event, I talked to Cesar who has just recently been appointed as Embraer´s new VP for the EMEA region.  Cesar shared with us his view on how the covid crisis has impacted Embraer, ...