Last week, UK Border Force announced strike action which will heavily impact anyone hoping to travel in or out of the UK over the festive period. In total, eight days of strike action are planned with only one “recovery” day separating the two periods. Capacity for more eGates Heathrow Airport and others have said that…
Currently all we need to travel and access related services internationally is a single physical document, our passport – and maybe a driver’s license for car rental. The exception to this is where there are cross-border agreements between countries to allow use of national ID cards in place of passports; such examples can be found…
Business or leisure. Sunny beaches or snow-capped mountains. Short-hop or long-haul. Regardless of the destination or purpose for international travel, there is invariably one item at the top of the packing list. Your passport. As biometric adoption continues to grow in airports around the globe, will this essential piece of personal property ever be consigned…
As an extension of Valour Consultancy’s growing research coverage of progressive airports and related technologies, a new market tracker service is launching in Q3 2022 . This new service follows Valour Consultancy’s comprehensive market intelligence report on The Seamless Passenger Journey in Smart Airports, which published in late 2021. Tracker subscribers will receive bi-annual updates…
The “R number” is just one of numerous pandemic-related terms which have regrettably become part of our everyday vocabulary. Measuring it is not always straightforward, but it has rarely brought good news for the aviation industry. While airports are still enduring the worst crisis in their history, the growing adoption of self-service and automation technology…
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…
This is the second blog written using the in-depth data and analysis in our new report “The Seamless Passenger Journey is Smart Airports – 2021 Edition”. Our first blog examined the qualitative trends and factors shaping the market and how airport and airline strategies have been forced to adapt. This accompanying blog focuses on the…
Following the release of our new smart airports research report, this is the first of a number of pieces examining the market for airport self-service and automated touchpoints, the trends shaping it and the expectations for seamless passenger journeys. A Clear Changing Emphasis and Strategic Approach As with many sectors and the adoption of new…
In-flight duty free revenue has been in decline for some time with a number of high-profile airlines such as KLM, American Airlines and Qantas having ditched the service in recent years. In a study conducted by the Duty-Free World Council and published by APEX, researchers found in-flight sales fell from 7.3 per cent of total…
Air travel has been massively impacted and disrupted in the past six months. Until Covid-19 hit, the biggest challenge facing airport operators and airlines was how to cope with an ever-increasing demand for air travel and the limited infrastructure to support it. Now, they are scrambling for survival as the industry has been turned on…
Smart Airports Encapsulate a More Tangible Smart City Business Opportunity for Technology Vendors Airports are a Less Complicated Opportunity with a Clearer ROI Technology vendors and service providers have been looking to promote their hardware and software platforms for smart cities for over five years. There have been advances made in developing some aspects of…