Emerging Aerospace Risk of 2012
The inherently high-risk nature of aviation operations can mean that emerging risks are largely considered and addressed before they happen. Business risks are rarely unique to aviation and ash clouds...
View ArticleAerospace Insurance Remains a Buyers’ Market
As the latest Willis Aerospace Aviation Products Market Review reveals, the Aerospace market remains a buyers’ market in every sector. Recent analysis of both the airline and aerospace markets points...
View ArticleBenign Aviation Market Makes for Happy Buyers
The airline insurance market is as stable as people can ever remember. Abundant capacity, low loss levels and minimum exposure growth means that it remains a buyers market. We reported all this...
View ArticleVideo – Aerospace Marketplace: The View from 30,000 Feet
We are going through a particularly benign loss period in the aviation insurance market. There has been $500m worth of losses in the first eight months of this year and just over $1bn worth of losses...
View ArticleOur Scariest Aerospace Risk – Variety of Risks
The vast majority of people have an inherent fear of the unknown and the first time of dealing with a situation. The aviation industry has had to deal with host of unknowns and first-time incidents...
View ArticleNew Eyes in the Skies – and New Risks to Manage
Odd, white, windowless airplanes. Small, spider-like camera carriers. The drones, of course, are here now, much debated as weapons of war and under development as a package delivery method by at least...
View ArticleThe Future of Air Travel: Two Stories of Where and How
Predicting the growth of commercial passenger air travel is a tale of two skies: one over the developing world, the other over the developed. Developing World: Strong Growth In the developing world,...
View ArticleThe Divided Airline Insurance Marketplace
When tragic airline losses filled our screens this past year, the airline insurance marketplace was braced for some heavy turbulence and an end to what’s been a long soft market. Many of us have been...
View ArticleWhy We Were All Wrong About the Airline Marketplace. Again.
I’ll admit it. I was among those predicting serious insurance rate increases for airlines following the terrible and very public disasters in the skies this past year. But here we are in Q4, the...
View ArticleEstávamos errados sobre o mercado de companhias aéreas
Vou admitir. Depois dos trágicos e tão divulgados desastres do ano passado, eu estava entre os que previam graves aumentos na taxa de seguro para as companhias aéreas. Mas aqui estamos no 4º trimestre,...
View ArticleOur Scariest Avatiation Risk – Air Travel Crippled by Terror and Disease
At this scary time of year we celebrate our fear of things that the vast majority perceive as “far-fetched”. It is perhaps the fear of the unknown that is most worrying. The global terror threat has...
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