ANZ’s refurbished 777-200 Business Premier raises the bar
When airlines refurbish their existing aircraft, supposedly to bring them up to the standard of newer purchases, more often than not they mi... Continue Reading
Author Archives: Mary Kirby
ATG, Ku, Ka, who cares? Why it’s all about the bandwidth
Do the letters really matter anymore? Multiple inflight connectivity technologies are available and have been for some time now. Airlines an... Continue Reading
Southwest slims armrests to fiddle the seat width numbers
An aircraft has only so much room inside. With airlines ever more aggressive in squeezing passengers into the planes every inch matters and ... Continue Reading
Airbus, Boeing bring seatmaker Zodiac in from the Hamburg cold
Aircraft seatmaker Zodiac Aerospace has been in the doghouse with airlines and airframers alike, following well-publicised delays to several... Continue Reading
“Choice” becomes new PaxEx curse word on 11-abreast A380
In an enormous U-turn on its previous “18 inches for all” economy class campaign, Airbus is finally displaying its much-anticipated eleven-a... Continue Reading
JetBlue eager to stay the course with free broadband Internet
How does a company react when its product is even more successful than it expected? For JetBlue and its inflight Wi-Fi partners Thales and V... Continue Reading
Korean Air’s first class: And Heather Cho flipped out on nuts?
Since last September I’ve flown from Paris to Seoul to Shanghai and back on Korean Air, spending some hard-earned points to travel in first ... Continue Reading
New PaxEx partnership could offer powerful proposition to airlines
Leading inflight power supplier Astronics and tray table innovator SmartTray have inked a new exclusive agreement to work together, combinin... Continue Reading
When it comes to seat amenity has business class hit its peak?
In the run-up to the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg this year, I’ve been asking myself: where does business class go from here? Ho... Continue Reading
Germanwings copilot said to have crashed intentionally: what now?
The aviation industry is coming to terms with a French prosecutor’s assertion that one of its own deliberately flew an Airbus A320 wit... Continue Reading
Time to take a fresh look at aircraft emergency egress testing
It’s understandable if airframers and regulators are reluctant to discuss the emergency egress requirements for commercial airliners. Nobody... Continue Reading
No early answers in Germanwings flight 4U9525 French Alps crash
Germanwings flight 4U9525 has crashed in the remote French Alps after descending quickly on a single heading during its morning flight betwe... Continue Reading
Are European legacies going too far with economy minus?
Europe’s legacy carriers are taking a leaf out of their US cousins’ LCC-fighting books by expanding their economy minus fares, with both Bri... Continue Reading
Onboard battery fires underscore need for meaningful action
This week, a battery caught fire in the overhead bins on a KLM 777, Qantas became the third airline to refuse freight carriage of lithium ba... Continue Reading
Vueling makes waves with 186-seat A320, Ka-band and lav-galley
Vueling, the low-cost carrier sibling to IAG’s British Airways and Iberia, is making two huge big passenger experience waves: first with Eur... Continue Reading
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