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'Digital Disruption' Affects Air-Rail Market Share: North Star Issues Fifth Global Report
North Star has released its 5th Annual Global Air-Rail Market Intelligence Report.
North Star’s Managing Director, Richard Brown explains that the report analyses global trends in air-rail services, and is based on a study of nine leading air-rail operators across Europe, Australia, Asia and South Africa. “The findings again clearly indicate that air-rail services continued to be a vital component of global aviation”, says Brown. “In fact, across our sample of nine operators, more than 44 million train passenger movements were experienced during 2016”.
However, the report concludes that the combined market share index for the nine operators show a slight decrease in people choosing rail when travelling to and from airports around the world.
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North Star Celebrates 10 Years!
On the 4th July 2007, North Star was born. Over the last decade, we have grown from a small team working in the UK to a team of experts working across the globe.
North Star Welcomes Stations Specialist Mike Bones
We are delighted to announce that Mike Bones has joined North Star after 20 years at Virgin Trains. Mike brings with him a wealth of rail experience gained over 30 years, mainly within the customer service and operations sectors, where he has held a number of senior management positions, including project management, specialising in stations.
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North Star Update – April 2017
“I am pleased to say that demand for North Star’s specialist rail operations expertise in the UK, Europe and internationally continues to grow. In the past 6 months we have provided operations advice, proposal management services, public sector advice and assistance to airports in rail connectivity on behalf of clients in the UK, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, France and the United Arab Emirates.
As always, we apply our customer-centric approach to everything we do. We are looking forward to future opportunities throughout Europe, the Middle East and further afield in a growing transport sector.”
-Richard Brown, Managing Director.