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TEAGUE on creating Alaska Airlines’ unique Orca splash

Aircraft liveries are branding powerhouses — giant billboards at airports worldwide which can communicate a solid brand image and celebrate ... Continue Reading

RAVE OS ultra angled HD screen is displayed in this image. The screen is displaying categories such as movies, a cock and a map.

Press Release: SPI launches new IFE software platform

Safran Passenger Innovations (SPI) is excited to announce the launch of Safran’s latest software platform, RAVE OS, with All Nippon Airways ... Continue Reading

Swiss Premium Economy interior cabin shows seats of grey with black and white details. A white pillow sits on each seat.

Inside the unusual aspects of Swiss’ new ZIM premium economy

Swiss is rolling out its newly unveiled premium economy cabin at speed, with all of its Boeing 777 routes to offer the new ZIM seats by the ... Continue Reading

Alex Durand, CEO SaxonAir and vice chair of the British Business and General Aviation Association is pictured standing in front of a private aircraft in a great jacket and pink dress shirt.

Weather-cancelled heli ride raises questions about eVTOL expectations

Early in February, Norwich, UK-headquartered private charter operator SaxonAir held an event at Biggin Hill Airport, Kent, to mark the arriv... Continue Reading

Breeze Airways' aircraft in its bright blue livery is parked at the airport gate in Charleston. A catering truck is pictured in the back ground with the word Charleston on it.

Breeze Airways makes the case for kindness as a business model

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” The old maxim from Scottish author and preacher John Watson is a worthy principl... Continue Reading

Airbus ZEROe testbed in flight. The aircraft is mostly white with blue and yellow covering the tail.

Airbus picks CFM and GE engine for A380 ZEROe hydrogen testbed

Airbus and Safran-GE joint venture CFM will flight test a direct hydrogen combustion engine aboard Airbus’ A380 MSN1 test platform, the comp... Continue Reading

Finnair business class seat is pictured here with a woman in a brown outfit, sleeping on the flatbed.

The 14 different kinds of business class seats in 2022

As aviation in much of the world begins to accelerate out of the pandemic effects of COVID-19, the business class seating landscape has chan... Continue Reading

A window seat on TAP A330-900neo business class. The seats are grey with a yellow pillow resting on top.

TAP’s Recaro CL6710 provokes compact staggered thoughts

Recaro’s CL6710 is one of the late 2010s-era compact staggered business class seats, alongside products such as the Safran Optima and Stelia... Continue Reading

Finnair A350 business class seat is pictured here in grey tones. Bright light shines onto it through the aircraft window.

Finnair’s “rebirth” launches Collins AirLounge, HAECO Vector Premium

In what Finnair chief executive Topi Manner calls a “rebirth of Finnair”, the airline is introducing a new type of business class seat — the... Continue Reading

Canadian Airline, Canada Jetlines Airbus A320 in the hanger. The livery is bright orange with a white tail

Start-ups move closer to injecting Canadian aviation with competition

It is no secret that the Canadian aviation industry is due for some much needed competition. Three new entrants, which aim to do just that, ... Continue Reading

JetBlue's cool blue lighting on board is picture as people fill the aircraft seats. This image is from the back of the aircraft showing the seatback IFE screens with various entertainment playing.

Cancun hop on JetBlue highlights cabin consistency

There’s nothing like a harsh winter in the Northeast to send travelers in search of warmer climes. Eager to catch a break from the frigid te... Continue Reading

Computer rendering of the Factorydesign Access business class seat. Seats by the window are frontward facing while the seats next to them are angled inwards towards the aircraft window. Small pillows sit on each seat.

The Z-bed is back: Factorydesign’s single-aisle Access

The “comfort canyon” between fully flat business class seats and economy class is growing wider again, especially on the new fleet of long-h... Continue Reading

An aviation maintenance team loads sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)into the 2021 Boeing ecoDemonstrator. (Boeing photo)

Press Release: Boeing buys 2 million gallons of SAF for commercial ops

Boeing today announced a supply agreement for two million gallons (7.5 million liters) of blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with EPIC ... Continue Reading

SkyFive’s work to bring ATG connectivity to Oceania progresses

SkyFive’s DA2G-branded direct air-to-ground inflight connectivity solution is under review by an undisclosed airline in New Zealand, which i... Continue Reading

An aircraft sits on the runway with 3 water streams spraying over top of it making the WIFI symbol.

Aegean goes EAN for Airbus A320/A321 fleet

Greece’s national carrier Aegean is to go with an almost full-fleet outfitting of the Inmarsat-Deutsche Telekom hybrid S-band/air-to-ground ... Continue Reading