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.
Libyan carriers Afriqyah Airways and Libyan Airlines have both contracted Air France-KLM’s maintenance arm to repair aircraft damaged at Tripoli International Airport during the recent conflict in the country.
The U.K. government yesterday rejected proposals to change the way its controversial air passenger duty (APD) is calculated. An anomaly in the four-band system means that passengers flying from London to the Caribbean will continue to pay more tax than those traveling to U.S. West Coast points and Hawaii. Premium economy fares will also continue to be taxed at the same rate as business or first class.
Several leading U.K. aviation figures lashed out angrily yesterday in response to the Chancellor’s failure to address the controversial air passenger duty (APD) in the country’s Autumn Statement. The planned increase in the APD, announced in the March 2011 budget, will be double the rate of inflation. The increase goes into effect in April.
