Airlines continue to improve the mobile passenger experience
The modern age of the smartphones that we now take for granted began a decade ago with the 2007 release of the Apple iPhone (running the iOS... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: American Airlines
Gogo, Delta and Bombardier leave industry guessing about CSeries IFE
LONG BEACH — Remember when Gogo saw seatback entertainment headed for the history books, and streaming to passengers’ personal electronic de... Continue Reading
Global Eagle opens the Kimono in business update
Global Eagle is not pursuing linefit offerability on new twin-aisle aircraft. That was just one of the revelations recently made by Global E... Continue Reading
Thompson Vantage Solo sets the bar for premium narrowbody business
Fully flat business class beds with direct aisle access on narrowbody aircraft will become increasingly important in the next cycle of airli... Continue Reading
May only be a matter of time until amenity kits are digital deliveries
Tiny toothpaste. Eyemask. Antiseptic towelette. Socks. Amenity kits today have changed very little over the more than 60 years they’ve been ... Continue Reading
PaxEx odds and ends: BA brings pain and Ethiopian 767 no longer plain
Just because you know something is coming doesn’t make it hurt any less when it actually arrives. We have known for nearly a year that Briti... Continue Reading
ViaSat has great IFC expectations as 737 MAX with wifi readies for EIS
ViaSat is staying somewhat loose in its messaging about when its new ViaSat-2 satellite will begin actively supporting inflight connectivity... Continue Reading
Gogo unlimited pass customers are grandfathered in, for now
Though it may not be fully apparent yet, virtually every airline partner of Gogo’s is moving towards a paradigm whereby they determine the I... Continue Reading
Time to revisit airline safety video seatbelt demonstrations
We live in a time when many aspects of the aviation experience are so ingrained into the cultural zeitgeist that they become fodder for come... Continue Reading
Industry stakeholders break out their in-seat IFE crystal balls
What does the future hold for in-seat entertainment on aircraft? These days, with very few exceptions (including Scoot’s Boeing 787s),... Continue Reading
American rolls out new bag tracking and alert feature for passengers
American Airlines’ passengers are set to get more and better insight into their checked baggage as it routes through the airline’s net... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: Blaming failed service to India on M3 is misguided of Delta
This is an Op-Ed contribution from Gavin Werbeloff, a real estate fund manager and travel junkie who turns his analytical methods to aviatio... Continue Reading
United’s Zodiac Polaris 767 beats Vantage on American, Delta
If there’s anywhere that the venerable Boeing 767 continues to serve passengers well, it’s in the United States. That’s certainly been the c... Continue Reading
Twin-aisle challenges affect suppliers and passengers
Delta Air Lines’ first Airbus A350 recently showed up fully painted and performing test flights in advance of delivery next month. It is one... Continue Reading
Increasingly opaque airline premium products make for bad #PaxEx
Ever since British Airways debuted “Club Class”, the first step towards business class, airlines have walked the line between branding their... Continue Reading
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