Press Release: IATA forecasts strong 2018 airline profits, margin squeeze
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecasts global industry net profit to rise to $38.4 billion in 2018, an improvement fro... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: safety
People don’t want to pay for comfort on board: IATA chief
Passengers are getting taller and broader. Certain aircraft seating configurations are being likened in news stories to flying prisons. Cons... Continue Reading
Flight attendants need to feel empowered to fight harassment
When she was in her late 20s, flight attendant Sandra Davis went back onto the empty aircraft on which she’d just flown to retrieve a sweate... Continue Reading
IAG urges airlines to prepare for CORSIA amid fear of regulatory force
International Airlines Group (IAG) chief executive Willie Walsh warns that if the airline industry fails to attain its emissions-reduction g... Continue Reading
Airbus on why it is bringing more and more cabin upgrades in-house
Airbus’ recent focus on bringing cabin upgrades in-house is part of a shift in how the airframer sees its role in servicing — rather than ju... Continue Reading
Why window seats on the Boeing 787 seem the narrowest of all
“99.9% of the flying public don’t know which aircraft type they’re flying.” While this generalization, left by a commenter on a past post he... Continue Reading
Qantas’ new London lounge shows whimsy and style
After a delay of nearly a year, Qantas has opened its surprisingly large new lounge at London Heathrow terminal 3, and the initial launch im... Continue Reading
IAG LEVELs Paris, closes down OpenSkies
LEVEL, the long-haul low-cost carrier from British Airways and Iberia parent IAG, is to start flights to four key destinations from Paris’ s... Continue Reading
Press Release: NORDAM monuments an option on new Boeing aircraft
NORDAM has been given permission by Boeing to work with airline customers to design, engineer, manufacture and certify front-row and other i... Continue Reading
Ever-evolving TAP Portugal details drivers behind A330neo IFEC choice
Realizing it needs to step up its onboard #PaxEx credentials, TAP Air Portugal will adopt Panasonic Avionics’ Ku-band connectivity sol... Continue Reading
Korean Air’s Apex seats raise production, maintenance questions
The past several years have not seen universal success for seatmakers cutting the bleeding edge where design, materials engineering, passeng... Continue Reading
In Conversation: Brexit’s impact on the UK aviation industry
The Royal Aeronautical Society’s Tim Robinson joins RGN deputy editor John Walton to talk about what the UK leaving the EU will mean for the... Continue Reading
Honeywell eyes thousands more tails for Primus Epic integrated cockpit
Having recently received certification from the FAA for its next generation Primus Epic 2.0 cockpit debuting on the Pilatus PC-24 Super Vers... Continue Reading
Lufthansa Group unveils staggered direct aisle access in business
Following the publication of this article, both Zodiac Aerospace and Aviointeriors have gone on record stating they are not the seatmakers f... Continue Reading
AlulA proffers data integration box, comms network at Airbus BizLab
A small startup joining Airbus’ BizLab accelerator in Hamburg is hoping to combine air-to-ground airline tracking, mesh networks, machine le... Continue Reading
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