The 747, flight attendants and the “60-foot rule”
A flurry of recent stories about United Airlines and Delta Air Lines retiring their fleets of Boeing 747 passenger planes focused on the rol... Continue Reading
Safety
Op-Ed: Twin winter disruptions show holes in airline IROPS plans
Another month, another major international airport with airline operations falling apart after routine winter weather, and another set of re... Continue Reading
Airbus readies to ramp up sim training at newly acquired Aurora center
Having acquired Denver area flight training center Strategic Simulation Solutions, Airbus is gearing up to add A320 simulator capacity in th... Continue Reading
SITAONAIR details how airline RFP process is evolving for IFEC
The inflight entertainment and connectivity RFP process is evolving, with increasingly savvy airlines realizing “they don’t need a fully int... Continue Reading
#PaxEx Podcast: Why Mitsubishi’s internal time clock is ticking
Welcome to Episode 53 of the #PaxEx podcast. Our guest for this episode is well-known aviation geek Isaac Alexander, a freelance aviation wr... Continue Reading
From staid to funky, inflight safety card design sends a brand message
Although he wasn’t aware of it at the time, Troy Dixon started collecting airline safety cards at the tender age of eight-months-old o... Continue Reading
Aireon space-based ADS-B tracking exceeding SITAONAIR expectations
As more Iridium NEXT satellites are launched into low earth orbit to build out the full constellation – the latest batch of 10 satellites wa... Continue Reading
Editorial: Passengers must help to keep industry’s nose clean
The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) last Thursday delivered a refreshingly honest statement about its ever-growing role in civil avia... Continue Reading
Airport workers who tie safety to a living wage meet with some success
At their peak in 1954, unions represented 34.8% of all US wage and salary workers. In January of 2017 that number hovered somewhere around 1... Continue Reading
Airborne Wireless Network readies to take laser test to the sky
Airborne Wireless Network, the company that wants to create a high-speed airborne mesh network for use by telco customers, is gearing up for... Continue Reading
UK firm seeks to reduce ocean plastic waste with new inflight skincare
Few who watched the recent BBC Blue Planet II episode depicting the plight of a mother pilot whale mourning her dead calf, which had likely ... Continue Reading
Fast-growing Boltaron makes ambitions clear in aircraft interiors
Roughly a decade ago Boltaron’s Newcomerstown, Ohio facility held as much as a 60% market share of the plastic card stock for credit cards a... Continue Reading
US airlines seek to convince Trump to uphold CORSIA commitment
US airlines are urging the Trump administration to uphold President Obama’s commitment to participate in the voluntary phase of ICAO&#... Continue Reading
People don’t want to pay for comfort on board: IATA chief
Passengers are getting taller and broader. Certain aircraft seating configurations are being likened in news stories to flying prisons. Cons... Continue Reading
Flight attendants need to feel empowered to fight harassment
When she was in her late 20s, flight attendant Sandra Davis went back onto the empty aircraft on which she’d just flown to retrieve a sweate... Continue Reading
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