United’s new Polaris business class designed with sleep in mind
NEW YORK – United Airlines will premiere its new Polaris business class cabin in December, when the first of 14 Boeing 777-300ERs it h... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: in-flight entertainment
Delta’s new IFE for kids offers post-flight engagement
With airlines focusing on expanding their inflight entertainment content, Delta Air Lines’ selection of Speakaboos, an interactive app for c... Continue Reading
Decision time for airlines on standalone vs integrated apps
As wireless streaming video inflight entertainment continues its expansion into the airline cabin, one of the big questions for airlines con... Continue Reading
Irish immigrant saga Brooklyn will steal your heart
I watched a lot of movies in film school, but one that always stuck with me was Elia Kazan’s late career masterpiece America America. ... Continue Reading
Press Release: Gov’t taps APEX to help on IFE captions, descriptive audio
In an effort to move forward with its intention to establish rules regarding closed captions and descriptive audio services in inflight ente... Continue Reading
Press Release: Demand for inflight broadband hits new heights
One of the most comprehensive surveys of airline customers worldwide reveals that passengers now not only expect broadband services to be of... Continue Reading
Maggie Smith breathes fire into The Lady in the Van
After more than sixty years in the business, it’s easier to pick the occupations and/or iconic film roles that Dame Maggie Smith has n... Continue Reading
Video of Delta’s new IFE user interface confirms radical update
The graphical user interface (GUI) of an inflight entertainment system is a tricky beast. Over the course of a flight, that little seatback ... Continue Reading
Spanish Affair 2 is second helping of awesome
Calanda-born writer-director Luis Buñuel put Spanish cinema squarely on the map during his long, storied career with such surrealist classic... Continue Reading
Press Release: IMG set to launch second live inflight channel
IMG is to launch a second live sports channel for the inflight market to complement its Sport 24 channel – the only 24/7 live sports channel... Continue Reading
“First class causes air rage” paper contains serious data flaws
A research paper by Katherine DeCelles and Michael Norton, published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has taken the media... Continue Reading
Point Break remake makes you yearn for the original
Remakes are tricky. Especially when you’re redoing a movie that is widely considered to be one of the best bad movies ever made, Kathr... Continue Reading
Startups integrate mags, books, IFE into airline apps
If the ‘standalone box on a plane’ wireless bring-your-own-device streaming system was last year’s shiny new thing at AIX, this year’s was t... Continue Reading
Sisters proves equal opportunity offender
Old School had death by KY-lube wrestling and streaking, Bachelor Party had a scene with a donkey snorting cocaine and Animal House had John... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Technik gears up with original equipment innovation
Lufthansa Technik might have lost out in the Cabin Systems category at the Crystal Cabin Awards this year in Hamburg, but there’s no l... Continue Reading
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