When jetpacks were revealed in 1961, they captured everyone’s imagination. Famous biochemist, Isaac Asimov, predicted that jetpacks would be ‘as common as a bicycle’ by the year 2000. There are many reasons why recreational jetpacks failed to make it to mass market, primarily safety concerns and cost. Are driverless cars facing a similar fate? The…
Desk-based research will only get you so far! Senior Maritime Analyst Joshua Flood reflects on a unique site visit… Marlink kindly invited me to follow one of the firm’s engineers for a VSAT installation. I flew to Stavanger, the Norwegian equivalent to Scotland’s oil and gas mecca, Aberdeen. Leonid, a Marlink Field Installation Engineer, met…
Our senior maritime analyst Joshua Flood discusses his upcoming session at November’s Onboard Connectivity Summit in Bremen. About the event Accelerating Connectivity to Future Proof Operations New for 2021. Onboard Connectivity Summit 2021, co-located with Satellite Connectivity Summit 2021 and Space Tech Expo Europe 2021, brings together the maritime and aviation industries with OTT…
Valour Consultancy recently released the first edition of its new maritime connectivity Market Tracker. This new service collected data on 11,307 vessels from a range of the top merchant global carriers. It also assessed regional operators, tank specialists, offshore energy vendors and also the lucrative passenger vessel sub-segment. The objective of this new service is…
Long-range narrowbody aircraft are on course to become increasingly prominent over the next decade, with airlines preferring them to widebodies on some long-haul routes for a plethora of reasons. In this article we’ll examine this trend and what it means for onboard amenities. Narrowbody aircraft have a long history of flying long-haul routes. The Boeing…
In a piece of internal company news, we are delighted to announce the arrival of John Devlin, who is joining Valour Consultancy on a permanent basis as a Director and Senior Analyst. John (JD) joins from P.A.ID Strategies, a company he founded in 2015. The organisation’s focus on Payments, Authentication, Identity (P.A.ID) and Security of…
Our third blog, following the publication of our new report “The Seamless Passenger Journey is Smart Airports – 2021 Edition”, discusses how the latest projects, installations and vendor portfolio developments demonstrate the sector’s direction of travel. The Necessary Evolution in Vendor-Client Relationships to Survive and Thrive Our report examines and discusses the changing nature of…