Op-Ed: APEX needs non-entertainment vendors to stay relevant
The Airline Passenger Experience Association is a strange beast. Five years ago, and thirty years after its founding, the World Airline Ente... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: APEX
Banks drag their feet on chip cards as liability shift takes hold
In the age of ancillary revenue — and a week after EMV chip card liability shifted in the United States — making it as easy as possible for ... Continue Reading
Asiana spikes first class while Korean Air re-ups
South Korea’s two main full-service airlines are in the middle of a fascinating divergence of opinion on the future of first class, and it’s... Continue Reading
#PaxEx Podcast: Hacker Claims and Inflight Games
Welcome to Episode 24 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest for this episode is Dominic Green, executive VP, Americas at Inflight Dublin, which i... Continue Reading
Audio description of IFE in the offing for blind passengers
When she first started her company, Vancouver-based Descriptive Video Works in 2003, Diane Johnson said she did something unusual. Frustrate... Continue Reading
JetBlue’s Apple Pay play begs questions about live CC processing
JetBlue Airways will look at supporting real-time credit card transactions in-flight once 100% of its aircraft have been fitted with its Fly... Continue Reading
Industry progresses in effort to streamline IFE-seat testing
Aircraft seat makers and IFE manufacturers are progressing in their efforts to streamline certification testing of seats integrated with ele... Continue Reading
Panasonic to bring NFC to IFE as industry faces mounting pressure
Some aviation industry observers have predicted that onboard Near Field Communication (NFC) applications for inflight entertainment (IFE) sy... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: Industry progresses in provision of closed captions for IFE
NEWPORT BEACH: From 2006 – when solutions to enable the provision of closed captions on inflight entertainment first began to be withi... Continue Reading
Emirates embroiled in audio situation
Emirates, which carries one of the most vast inflight entertainment libraries in the industry, says it is currently “in direct discussions” ... Continue Reading
LRA executive wants airlines to think differently about service
In an era of ubiquitous customer satisfaction surveys and real-time inflight trouble shooting via social media, sometimes the best way to co... Continue Reading
Aircraft Interiors Expo and APEX can and will coexist
As recently as 2008, when I attended my first Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX), IFE manufacturers and connectivity solutions providers were onl... Continue Reading
Contactless EMV payments make sense for iPhone; what about IFE?
As Apple has moved to support contactless EMV (Europay, Mastercard and Visa) payments on the new iPhone 6 via near-field communications (NFC... Continue Reading
From United to Gogo, Mary Rogozinski leans into aviation
Mary Rogozinski, Gogo’s manager of content partnerships since 2012, has been working in the aviation industry for over 30 years. More ... Continue Reading
#PaxEx Podcast: Raising a Voice for Passenger Choice
Welcome to Episode 14 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest for this episode is Thales Avionics senior director, content business Dominic Green, ... Continue Reading
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