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
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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
UK first class upgrade app for trains Seatfrog sees growth accelerate
Traffic across different modes of transport is seeing various levels of recovery from the global pandemic. In the UK, rail travel was hit es... Continue Reading
Northern Ireland’s Alice Blu Aero eyes narrowbody herringbone market
The premium narrowbody business class race is hotting up with a new seat — and new seatmaker — from Northern Ireland: Alice Blu Aero’s Quant... Continue Reading
Zaher Deir looks to revolutionize post-pandemic private jet charters
Based on more than three decades of experience in the private aviation industry, Zaher Deir saw an opportunity in the burgeoning post-pandem... Continue Reading
American earnings call delves into supply and demand challenges
Citing a first quarter net loss of $1.6 billion, American Airlines executives were nonetheless upbeat in discussions during the airline’s ea... Continue Reading
Glow Up: interior lighting is getting smarter
On a recent Eurostar trip between France and London, it was striking to observe just how much the stark light onboard the train diminished t... Continue Reading
United sounds positive notes about network, #PaxEx improvements
For any other industry at any other time, a first quarter net loss of $1.4 billion would be bad news. As a US airline emerging from the COVI... Continue Reading
Delta’s new ‘domestic’ A321neo: the shape of things to come?
Whenever we dive into the details of a cabin onboard an Airbus A321neo, it seems like we focus on the brand new lie-flat seats of the long-r... Continue Reading