Recycled and bio-plastics: a solution to the PaxEx plastics footprint?
The passenger experience industry often considers plastics in aesthetic terms, from developing exciting new shapes, patterns and technologie... Continue Reading
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Will changes in aircraft transition market lead to vanilla PaxEx?
As commercial aircraft move between operators, the passenger experience hard product inside them — seats, IFE, galleys, monuments, and so on... Continue Reading
Warrant Officer Sara Catterall on contributing in an ops environment
Warrant Officer (WO) is the most senior non-commissioned Royal Air Force rank. To most of the RAF workforce, the ‘Warrant’ knows all. They’v... Continue Reading
Women in aviation work to STEAM the World despite COVID challenges
The COVID-19 crisis has been incredibly challenging for many working women, including women in aviation who are well within their rights to ... Continue Reading
Jennifer Coutts Clay on overcoming the challenges of COVID in aviation
Industry veteran and author Jennifer Coutts Clay has seen the aviation industry overcome several black swan events in her more than 40 years... Continue Reading
Panasonic tables Active Surfaces to support hygienic design
How can aircraft interior designers eliminate the debris-accumulating crevices and gaps created by high-touch buttons on aircraft seats, whi... Continue Reading
2021 starts off worse than 2020 as travel restrictions bite
Increased travel restrictions are having a crushing impact on global passenger traffic, with total demand in January 2021 – as measured in r... Continue Reading
Cut carbon or face passenger exodus, Europe’s airlines warned
Policymakers have welcomed the European aviation industry’s roadmap for reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 as an impor... Continue Reading
Five years on: how the A320neo is changing aviation
For many who followed the development of Airbus’ A320neo family of aircraft very closely during the first half of the 2010s, it will seem as... Continue Reading
Cathay first and business passengers can sleep lie-flat without masks
Passengers flying in first or business class on Cathay Pacific are permitted to remove their masks when sleeping in the lie-flat position, u... Continue Reading
FAA to require 777 inspections after United engine incident
The US FAA will require inspections of Boeing 777 aircraft equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines, after a United 777-200 ... Continue Reading
Faradair aims for hybrid aircraft service entry in 2026
IATA in 2009 set the air transport industry on a path toward carbon neutrality. It targeted carbon-neutral growth from 2020 and a reduction ... Continue Reading
CO2 sucked from the air and turned into jet fuel shows promise
Efforts are underway in Europe to develop electro-fuels for airlines using carbon dioxide captured directly from the atmosphere as a feedsto... Continue Reading
Ending Learjet production, Bombardier commits to PaxEx improvements
Bombardier later this year will end production of the fabled Learjet aircraft in Wichita, Kansas and reduce headcount, as it seeks to focus ... Continue Reading
Air Canada’s takeover of Transat progresses
Air Canada’s proposed takeover of Transat AT Inc. has received Canadian government approval, and is now under antitrust scrutiny by th... Continue Reading