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.
A number of airlines canceled flights or reduced capacity into the U.K.’s busiest airport yesterday because of a planned strike by public sector workers. The strike, thought to be the largest in the country since 1926, will see a walkout by U.K. Border Agency (UKBA) staff at airports and seaports along with up to 2 million other public sector workers in an ongoing row over pension reforms.
The European Commission has added airlines from four countries to the list of carriers banned from flying into the European Union, and partially lifted a ban on TAAG Angola Airlines. Jordan Aviation has been restricted from operating three of its Boeing 767s into the EU due to “numerous and repeated safety deficiencies.” The EC said it will support Jordan and the carrier to improve safety “in a sustainable manner.”
Jens Flottau (Dubai), Robert Wall (Dubai), Rupa Haria (Dubai)
When manufacturers set out to define a new aircraft, they always say their product decisions are driven by long discussions with airlines. But do the airframers really listen? As Boeing, Embraer and ATR work on defining new aircraft to enter service toward the end of the decade, Airbus is experiencing how dangerously wrong things can go when key customers differ with product decisions.
