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Matt Ridley shared thisAnd the winner of the Skytrax best global airline alliance goes to… oneworld Alliance Well done to all our incredible flight deck and cabin crew, check in staff, baggage handlers and all those working behind the scenes. Thank you to our passengers for this award
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Matt Ridley shared thisGetting ready for the first oneworld loyalty summit, kicking off next week at DFW. ✈️ Loyalty is the thing that makes us walk past three coffee shops on our way to get the one we always choose. It's why we ask the window cleaner if they take Amex and it's why I still buy the same racquet as Roger Federer. In aviation, loyalty is becoming an increasingly central part of the business model. At the oneworld Alliance, we're constantly working to make loyalty work better and more seamlessly for members, wherever they are in the world. Next week we have a great programme, put together by industry leader Gilbert Ott. I'm looking forward to connecting with partners, member airlines, and innovators to explore how we can deepen emotional connections, expand partner ecosystems, and make oneworld loyalty feel effortless for every traveller, wherever they are in the world.
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Matt Ridley shared thisToday is both National Aviation Day and World Photograph day… Some photos from the oneworld Alliance network this year. It’s great to be in a job that lets me see so much of the world!
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Matt Ridley shared thisIt’s been in service ten years, but the cockpit of the F-35 still feels futuristic. That’s especially true for someone that spent too much time playing the 1990’s game ‘Joint Strike Fighter’, which put you at the controls of an aircraft still in development. As someone that has spent the last decade looking at pitch decks for electric aircraft, hybrid aircraft and new types of propulsion systems and fuels, Farnborough airshow felt like the arrival of lots of what we had been promised. Years after seeing the pitch decks, it was amazing to see BETA TECHNOLOGIES, Vertical Aerospace, Joby Aviation in the air. Reassuringly, the traditional OEM’s have also been making progress in this space- GE Aerospace, Saab Aerostructures AB, Boeing, Embraer and Airbus Aircraft were very visible. JetZero announced new funding and a partnership with Japan Airlines - the prototype is taking shape for a commercial airliner that could be 30% more efficient than the current generation. The 1PointFive carbon capture facility in Texas looks nearly ready. A highlight for me was Giorgio Parolini’s SAF panel with Jonathon Counsell. The panel itself was probably amazing. I didn’t hear much. The F-35 display was on overhead, and the afterburners on the Pratt & Whitney F135 turbofan engine was delivering a volume that my cheap 1990’s soundcard never could. The future sounds great.
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Matt Ridley reposted thisMatt Ridley reposted this𝗦𝟰 𝗘𝗣𝟯 — 𝗜𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲? The public conversation about sustainability has gone quiet. The capital hasn't. While US political headwinds have pushed ESG out of the spotlight, it might surprise you to know that major travel companies, corporate buyers, and investors continue to pursue their sustainability initiatives as planned -- just with less PR. For those of us sweltering under a heat dome or dodging wildfires, the question isn't whether sustainability is a dead issue; it's how to make the economics actually work. We brought together three experts to get past the narrative and ask the harder question: can travel truly decarbonize, and what does "sustainable" actually mean when your margins are already under pressure? Featuring: Matt Ridley from oneworld Alliance, Anna Rose Feinberg from Alō Index, and Javier Arredondo from Virtuoso Travel. Follow Travel Tech Insider so you never miss an episode! 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/dAyr7aCu 🟢 Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gzr44q56 ▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dRe3bhms #TravelTech #Sustainability #TravelDecarbonization #TravelTechInsider #Podcast
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Matt Ridley shared thisThere are some great business lessons that you can learn from sport. Yesterday in Atlanta #England showed us that not taking risks is in itself a risk. Companies and economies that try to play it safe and sit on existing products and services instead of exploring new ones are just sitting on a one-nil lead. Not investing in R&D, or corporate venture capital is the same as substituting your goal scorers for defenders. Football isn’t coming home this time because we tried to avoid risk instead of managing it. Vamos! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 #worldcup #venturecapital
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Matt Ridley shared thisWishing all my American friends, colleagues, and family a very happy 4th of July! Glad that transatlantic relations have broadly improved over the last 250 years. You have a beautiful country, and an unsurmounted spirit of invention and entrepreneurial drive. So, happy birthday to the nation that brought us the Wright brothers, the Apollo missions and buc ee’s!
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Matt Ridley reposted thisMatt Ridley reposted thisAloha! This week I was honored to participate in a special event celebrating Hawaiian Airlines’ joining the oneworld Alliance, alongside Hawaiian’s CEO Diana Birkett Rakow. The final product is still in the paint phase, but soon a beautiful newly painted Airbus Aircraft A330 aircraft adorned with the oneworld brand will be flying all over the Hawaiian network. One particularly meaningful touch is the phrase “Aloha a puni ka honua,” or “Aloha all around the world,” which honors ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, the local Hawaiian language. During the event, we talked about the special Aloha spirit Hawaiian brings to the alliance and how much the we look forward to welcoming their unique hospitality culture to our customers around the world. Hawaiian Airlines officially became a part of oneworld when they integrated with Alaska Airlines earlier this year. It was a wonderful event with fellow oneworld members with a robust Pacific presence, including Japan Airlines, Fiji Airways, American Airlines and future oneworld member Philippine Airlines. Thanks to Michelle (McLellan) Girkinger, Ross Leggett, Jeff Ogar and Christoph Gärtner for the engaging conversation. At oneworld Alliance, we are committed to delivering a premium and consistent customer experience across our members. Now we have an opportunity to welcome them to even more destinations across the Pacific, bringing Hawaii to the world, and the world to Hawaii. #Hawaii #Aloha
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Matt Ridley shared thisJust finished London Climate Action Week 2026 Highlights: The economic and resilience arguments are maturing. It was also great to host so many international friends and colleagues in the world’s greatest city Lowlight: The central line during London’s hottest ever June really brought the discussions on mitigation and adaptation to life
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Matt Ridley liked thisMatt Ridley liked thisMore than 125,000 additional seats to Fiji in 2027 Fiji Airways is expanding its international network next year in response to strong demand for travel to Fiji. We will launch three flights a week to Western Sydney from 19 March and add more flights to Hong Kong, Christchurch, Singapore and Tokyo. This builds on growth already announced to Apia, the Gold Coast, Vancouver and Nouméa. Together, these give travellers more choice and stronger connections through our Nadi hub. More seats mean more visitors, more opportunities for Fijian tourism and business, and more ways to connect our islands with the world. At the heart of what we do is connection: bringing families and friends together, welcoming visitors to our home, and keeping Fijians connected wherever they are. Hear from our Managing Director and CEO, Paul Scurrah, on what's ahead. We look forward to welcoming you on board. Flights are on sale now at fijiairways.com
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Matt Ridley liked thisMatt Ridley liked this‼️ Finnair reached 1.6% SAF in 2025. Twice the global average. The reason is not money. It is five years of relationship. ‼️ Riku Aho from Finnair and Mario Mifsud from Neste spoke at Sustainability LIVE in London earlier this month. The detail that stayed with me was not the volume number. It was this. Five years of working together. Three of those years spent specifically building what they called safety and literacy around SAF across the entire value chain. From producer to airline to corporate customer to passenger. That is not a procurement story. That is a partnership story. And it is the model most of the industry has not yet adopted. The global average is 0.8% SAF in the fuel mix. Finnair is at 1.6%. That gap did not come from Finnair having a bigger budget or better access to supply. It came from a commercial relationship that started five years ago and deepened through the kind of structured collaboration that most airlines are still treating as someone else's responsibility. Here is what Finnair understood that most carriers have not. SAF is not a commodity you buy when you need it. It is a supply relationship you build before you need it. And building it requires both parties to invest in the commercial architecture of the relationship, the pricing mechanisms, the volume commitments, the certification alignment, years before the mandates make it urgent. The airlines at 0.8% are not behind because the supply does not exist. They are behind because they did not start the relationship five years ago. The war context adds another dimension worth naming directly. The Strait of Hormuz disruption has made every airline acutely aware of what fossil fuel dependency looks like under geopolitical stress. Finnair's SAF position gives it a supply layer that does not route through a war zone. That is not a sustainability benefit. That is an operational resilience benefit with a direct P&L impact. Companies are increasingly working together across the value chain to overcome commercial and supply challenges instead of relying on piecemeal market deals. That line from Riku Aho is the most important sentence in this story. Piecemeal market deals produce 0.8%. Five year partnerships produce 1.6% and the foundation for whatever comes next. The airlines that will be at 5% or 6% when the 2030 mandates bite are the ones building those partnerships now. Not the ones planning to go to market in 2028. Which relationship are you five years into? If your SAF procurement strategy is still built around single transactions rather than structured producer relationships and you want to change that before 2030, that is the conversation worth having now. Message me. #SAF #SustainableAviation #ProjectFinance
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Matt Ridley liked thisMatt Ridley liked thisToday American Express Global Business Travel became a privately held company, backed by Long Lake. It's a strong endorsement of the growth we've delivered and the strategy we're running. For our customers, continuity comes first. The teams you work with and the service you rely on carry on exactly as they are. We go into this from a position of strength: strong customer retention, new business won, the CWT integration well underway, and tools like Complete and Egencia already in customers' hands. Long Lake's investment and AI expertise help us move faster on all of it. Same strategy, more momentum. Thank you to our customers and our teams.Acquisition of American Express Global Business TravelAcquisition of American Express Global Business Travel
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Matt Ridley liked thisMatt Ridley liked thisI arrived at the World Economic Forum somewhat by accident. I was completing my first master’s degree and took a job as a part-time data entry assistant. I ended up staying twenty years, for passion and purpose. I grew up seeing first-hand the consequences of an economy facing significant challenges - and how people in the most underprivileged circumstances, when given the smallest opportunity, could transform the lives of their families and communities. It’s why I wanted to be an economist, and why I believe economics must remain focused on people: whether they can build better lives, access opportunity and share in prosperity. The Forum gave me an extraordinary place from which to pursue that cause. Over the years, I had the opportunity to found and build some of the Forum’s major bodies of work — from the Future of Jobs Report, Global Gender Gap Report and Chief Economists Outlook, to building and leading the Centre for the New Economy and Society, bringing government and business together around economic growth, global risks, education, skills, jobs, gender parity and economic mobility. I also had the privilege of leading the Forum’s events and communications functions and its relationships with universities, academics and civil society. Along the way, I worked with extraordinary colleagues, business leaders, policymakers and academics around the world, and had opportunities I could never have imagined when I first walked through the Forum’s doors. The issues changed, the technologies and geopolitics changed, the projects changed, the teams changed, and I changed. But the north star remained constant: how can we build economies that create greater opportunity and better lives for more people? That is why what comes next feels less like leaving one mission for another, and more like continuing that mission from a new vantage point. On November 1, I will become Director General of International Air Transport Association (IATA). Aviation is fundamental economic infrastructure for an interconnected world. It connects people and communities, enables trade and tourism, and supports economic growth and millions of jobs. I am tremendously excited to work with IATA’s members, its board, its remarkable staff and its ecosystem of partners to help shape the future of this industry. But before then, a moment to say thank you. To the leaders who took chances on me and supported me; to the colleagues and partners who challenged and inspired me; and to the teams I have had the privilege to lead: thank you. I leave the Forum with deep gratitude for what it gave me, pride in what we built together, and great affection for the many people who have been part of this journey. Twenty years after I first walked through those doors, I leave with the same sense of purpose that kept me there and enormous excitement for where it takes me next.
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Matt Ridley liked thisMatt Ridley liked thisI’ve watched this video more times than I’d like to admit! 😊 We talk a lot about First Flight as a milestone, but I love that this video captures everything happening around it. The weather report (which we were eagerly awaiting!). The thumbs up. The nerves. The excitement. And most importantly, our REGENT crew - on the boats, in the Data Room, on the vehicle, and on the beach - watching (and captaining!) something we’ve spent years designing, building, testing, and figuring out, finally lift off the water!! And then getting to all celebrate that achievement together. 🎉 Soooo much work goes into moments like this that most people will never see. So many problems solved, long days, setbacks, debates, tests, and “okay, let’s try that again” moments, which is what makes watching it all come together so incredibly special. 💙 Very, very proud of this crew. And pretty lucky that I get to help keep building it! We have a whole lot ahead of us, andddd....we’re hiring! 🌊 Join the REGENT crew: https://lnkd.in/d2bBbMa8 (P.S. Want to help grow our crew? I'm hiring a Technical Recruiter: https://lnkd.in/dZCPyhSs) Don’t see the right fit today? Join our Talent Community and stay connected as we grow 🪴: https://lnkd.in/gdpdtG2G
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Matt Ridley liked thisMatt Ridley liked thisEnjoyed an interesting talk from Zöe Zujnovich, CEO National Grid at the Royal Academy of Engineering about the challenges of delivering the outcomes people want in terms of decarbonisation, exconomic growth and energy security for the decades ahead.
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Matt Ridley liked thisMatt Ridley liked this5 years from idea to a new class of vehicle is insane. We headed out to Rhode Island, the Ocean state, to see REGENT's 12-passenger vehicle fly: 7 tonnes, 55ft, floating, foiling and flying-by-wire. It’s hard to describe, but it's nearly silent (electric, propeller driven), and despite being able to fly at 300km/h -- at take-off it eerily floats through the air as if defying gravity. It's more like a spaceship out of Dune than a boat or a plane. Loved coming together with Billy Thalheimer, the REGENT team and so many of our co-investors, and partners that have supported this company over the years. Great to be a small part of aviation and maritime history! Congratulations to all the team on flying, and again on raising the monster $240m Series B. Alexander Shadbolt Peter Mitchell Ao Kamio Marc Baliotti Douglas Hansen-Luke Brian Schettler Lorin Selby Adam A. Triolo || Future Planet Capital
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Matt Ridley liked thisMatt Ridley liked thisREGENT’s Demo Day was about the people. More than 600 investors, customers, government and defense leaders, suppliers, and journalists came from six continents to watch Viceroy fly and see our factory open. Thank you. Demand is growing, and your support is a big reason why.
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