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Air France confirms A380 IFE smoke incident
Updated to include a statement from Thales and fresh comment from Air France Air France is confirming that the inflight entertainment system... Continue Reading
#PaxEx Podcast: Seat Safety and Cyber Security
Welcome to Episode 7 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest is Marisa Garcia, who spent many years working for an aircraft interiors and safety ma... Continue Reading
Seats should be 19.6 inches wide: safety report
Lightweight slimline seats may be all the rage with airlines, but at what point do seating dimensions stop being just a matter of comfort an... Continue Reading
Women of Boeing to be celebrated
The Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour plans to celebrate the women of Boeing – those who, since 1916, were the first to wor... Continue Reading
Where the WoMen are in aviation
The aviation industry has traditionally been, and continues to be, a rather male dominated field. A visitor to any of the industry’s major t... Continue Reading
JetBlue takes another look at possible LiveTV sale
JetBlue Airways appears to once again be considering a possible spin-off or sale of its LiveTV subsidiary, saying it is considering “s... Continue Reading
VIDEO: LiveTV explains how it uses desert aircraft for bird strike
JetBlue subsidiary LiveTV this week announced it is the first inflight connectivity provider to successfully meet the US FAA’s more stringen... Continue Reading
Most airlines lack EFB cyber-security plan: report
Most airlines do not have a cyber-security plan for the tablet-based electronic flight bags (EFBs) used by their pilots, a groundbreaking ne... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: When #PaxEx and #TravSec converge
OK. Let me state the obvious. In any aspect of our personal and professional lives security is quite simply an annoyance that we usually giv... Continue Reading
Lobbying pays off but passengers in the cold
Even as lobbying group Airlines For America (A4A) in December was rallying against the increasing number of taxes and fees the government le... Continue Reading
Transparency – it’s time
Last year in the aftermath of the Asiana Flight 214 crash, when it became evident that economy class seats had collapsed on each other and l... Continue Reading
FAA offers explicit guidance on bird strike
On 23 January, RGN received a formal reply to outstanding questions concerning certification processes for radome antennae from a specialize... Continue Reading
Magnesium shows promise for seats; is it safe?
New magnesium alloys show great promise for aircraft seat frames, as evidenced by new test data. Magnesium weighs 1/3 less than aluminum by ... Continue Reading
DOT won’t register social media complaints
Airline passengers may do most of their complaining on social media but the US Department of Transportation (DOT) has absolutely no intentio... Continue Reading
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