Senior Director, Group Digital Content Strategy, Aviation Week Network
London, UK
Summary
Rupa leads the Aviation Week Network's digital content strategy, content marketing and audience engagement.
Since joining in 2010, Rupa has ushered Aviation Week into a more mobile, social and digitally interactive era. She leads a team that has won several awards for excellence in digital content and social media.
Previously, she led multi-stakeholder communications at London City Airport where she was responsible for a number of high profile campaigns. Prior to that, she worked in brand communications and public relations roles in the business and leisure travel industry.
Aircraft lessors are increasingly interested in Eastern European airlines, despite the banking crisis that is crippling the finances of some European countries, according to Embraer. Lessors see Eastern Europe as “low-risk and low-cost,” says Simon Newitt, VP for Europe at Embraer’s commercial aircraft division. “They like this part of the world. They’re stepping forward, and we’re seeing more activity in the region.”
The U.K.’s air passenger duty (APD) is raising the ire of that country’s aviation industry, while Airlines for America (A4A) has filed a lawsuit objecting to Germany’s air transport tax. The U.K. aviation industry has responded with frustration to Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to proceed with a planned increase in the APD, in the country’s latest budget announcement. The industry has lobbied the government in recent months to hold or reduce the APD, arguing that an increase will harm the U.K.’s economic recovery.
When TUI Travel, the European launch customer for Boeing's 787, finally takes delivery of its first aircraft, the team at Monarch Aircraft Engineering should be ready to provide maintenance support through the Goldcare option. The technical arm of London Luton-based Monarch Airlines, is currently Boeing's only airframe maintenance partner for the Goldcare program. Despite Monarch canceling its own order for six 787s in September of last year, Boeing has confirmed that Monarch will remain a Goldcare partner.
