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A "wi-fi not available" screen on Air Canada's Boeing 737 MAX

Passenger experience on Air Canada 737 MAX is head scratcher

With the aim of visiting family in Vancouver last month, I began searching travel options from my home base of New York City. Roundtrip fare... Continue Reading

Avelo Boeing 737-800 interior in a 3-3 layout with blueish-grey seating.

2021: the year of clean slate startup airlines?

When Virgin America created its award-winning Blah Airlines marketing campaign seven years ago to differentiate itself on the basis of passe... Continue Reading

Emirates A380 window view of the engine overlooking a sunrise.

Emirates product shines but lax mask attitude surprises

Believe it or not, in over one million miles aloft, your author has never flown Emirates. That is until recently, when the drought finally c... Continue Reading

Screenshot of a Diehl Aviation Galley on an aircraft

Diehl dives into data exchange standards with CANSAS cabin platform

Diehl Aviation has developed a new cabin management system that will serve as the baseline central control panel for nearly all aircraft fun... Continue Reading

Flying United? Charge up your devices and bring wired headphones

While United Airlines continues to take delivery of new Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft with its new United Next interior, retrofits of the carrie... Continue Reading

Multiple male executives sign agreement at Dubai air show

SAUDIA selects Inmarsat GX IFC, Panasonic IFE for A321neo twinjets

SAUDIA has selected Inmarsat’s GX Aviation-branded Ka-band satellite connectivity solution and new OneFi passenger experience platform for i... Continue Reading

Cabin of Air Canada's Boeing 787-9 with LED lighting and IFE in view

Air Canada proves uneventful and reliable on Seattle-Vancouver-London

While big chunks of the outside world opened to vaccinated Americans months ago, I stayed put as friends resumed their international jet set... Continue Reading

Rendering of Geven Materia aircraft seat onboard a narrowbody

Geven reveals new-gen premium/biz recliner Materia

Following hard on the heels of the August release of its fully featured economy class seat, Elemento, Italian seatmaker Geven and London-bas... Continue Reading

Do social zones on planes still make sense?

Following Virgin Atlantic’s decision to bring The Booth to its leisure fleet of 397-seat A350-1000 twinjets in partnership with Factor... Continue Reading

The first Breeze A220-300 in the carrier's signature blue livery

Breeze wafts 36 seriously nice Safran business seats into its A220s

David Neeleman’s Breeze Airways has unveiled the first of its 80 Airbus A220-300 (né Bombardier C Series CS300) aircraft, featuring a surpri... Continue Reading

Iridium Certus will turbocharge the connected cockpit with state-of-the-art SATCOM for business jets, commercial airliners, rotorcraft and general aviation.

Iridium confident in safety position despite march of new LEOs

Operators of new and planned Low Earth Orbit satellite networks in the Ku- and Ka-band are keen to support inflight connectivity for airline... Continue Reading

Airbus control room. Two employees sit in front of a series of monitors.

Airbus Services highlights recovery opportunity, digitalisation

Aircraft services is big business: in 2019 during its last Global Markets Forecast, Airbus predicted a services market of some US$4.9t over ... Continue Reading

A variety of private jets at Henderson Executive Airport

Flying first, flying private: an NBAA travel tale

New digital platforms which connect consumers to private jets, on-demand shared charter flights, travel clubs and semi-private hybrid operat... Continue Reading

The Air4All system onboard, showing that wheelchairs could be supported without removing seats. The DOT is now eyeing a new rule for PRMs to stay in their own wheelchairs

Design enables wheelchairs in cabins without reducing seats

Disability activists and certain aircraft cabin design experts have long fought to usher in an industry step change by enabling powered whee... Continue Reading

A large aircraft tail monument with a man standing in front of it at a podium.

Recaro talks strategy, seating and cabin cleaning processes

SCHWÄBISCH HALL, GERMANY — Alongside German seatmaker Recaro Aircraft Seating’s recent virtual seat show and the opening of its new cu... Continue Reading