Thompson’s 2022 VantageXL update adds new design details
Thompson Aero Seating is going into the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg next month with an updated version of its popular VantageXL seat,... Continue Reading
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Lufthansa vs “Lifthansa”: how the new Vantage XL stacks up
Lufthansa’s new ex-Philippine Airlines Thompson Vantage XL seats are set to fly on four Airbus A350s that the airline has taken over, repain... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: Time to banish the bane of the airport lounge: high-top stools
High-top stools in airline lounges: they’re not comfortable, they’re not productive, they’re not space-saving… so why are they everywhere, a... Continue Reading
Report criticizes UK Jet Zero for failure to restrict flight demand
The UK Government’s ‘Jet Zero’ strategy for cutting aviation emissions, which includes plans to operate a transatlantic fl... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Technik sees high demand for VIP, government, bizjet work
Even as the Covid crisis hammered commercial aviation over the last two years, aircraft maintenance and overhaul giant Lufthansa Technik saw... Continue Reading
Southwest celebrates completion of concourse expansion in Denver
Denver International Airport (DEN) and Southwest Airlines on 5 May marked the completion of 16 new gates at the airport’s C Concourse, bring... Continue Reading
20+ hours upright in a seat: Qantas’ premium/economy challenge
For those considering flying down the back of Qantas’ ultra-ultra-longhaul Project Sunrise flights between Sydney and New York or London, de... Continue Reading
Air France new seats: more arrière-garde than avant-garde
Air France’s latest business class, a doored outward-facing herringbone minisuite from the Safran Seats Cirrus family — with a front-row lar... Continue Reading
Emirates opens up new premium economy sales, soft product
Emirates finally has a date for selling the premium economy cabins aboard the Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 widebodies it revealed nearly six m... Continue Reading
Europe on track to shunt more air passengers onto rail
Moves are underway in Europe to make it easier for travelers to use rail services as an alternative to short-haul flights, and recent announ... Continue Reading
Canada Jetlines on track for summer launch from Toronto
Canadian start-up Canada Jetlines expects to shortly obtain its operating license, and inaugurate Airbus A320 operations this summer from To... Continue Reading
Sunrise but not surprise: Qantas’ London/NY A350-1000
It’s no surprise that Qantas chose the Airbus A350-1000 for Project Sunrise. What is interesting is that it will have a large extra fuel tan... Continue Reading
Lufthansa taps FlightPath3D moving map for longhaul fleet
In a market that sees Lake Forest, California-based moving map specialist FlightPath3D compete with big avionics players for airline custome... Continue Reading
Canada mulls Flair Airlines request for exemption to ownership rules
Rapidly growing Canadian start-up Flair Airlines faces allegations that it may have fallen afoul of ownership-related provisions in the Cana... Continue Reading
Reskinned ex-PAL Vantage XL asks Lufthansa hard new biz questions
When Lufthansa’s social-forward @lufthansaviews Instagram released a sneak peek of what it billed as an “updated business class”, your autho... Continue Reading