Lufthansa’s commodity product challenge considered
How do we kill the idea that air travel is a commodity? As someone who is not particularly keen to pay more but who also wants a little bit ... Continue Reading
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Will Swiss kill the golden goose with $39 business lounge ancillary?
Swiss and its Lufthansa Group parent have long operated an unusual model of airline lounges: the Business Lounge for business class passenge... Continue Reading
Press Release: Global availability of 3G eXphone system announced
Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) and AeroMobile have today announced the global availability of the new 3G eXPhone system. The new... Continue Reading
Cathay Pacific tests out new staggered regional business class seats
Flying around Asia on Cathay Pacific is an exercise in uncertainty for most passengers. With the carrier’s strategic underutilisation policy... Continue Reading
Bombardier, Embraer and Mitsubishi discuss connectivity work
With a raft of new regional jets and small airliners set to enter into service over the next 24 months, RGN quizzed execs at Bombardier, Emb... Continue Reading
RGN Premium: Swiss opens up on per-MB, LHG, IoT
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Doing Business: the staggered business class seat renaissance
In the second of a three-part series (read Part 1 here), John Walton delves into the current state of and future prospects for business clas... Continue Reading
Watch #PaxEx Minute: Longhaul business class seating evolves
In this episode of the #PaxEx Minute, RGN contributing editor John Walton discusses the current and future state of business class seats. Im... Continue Reading
airBaltic opens up on what CSeries means for its operation
With Swiss recently launching the Bombardier CSeries CS100 into service, the focus for the next-generation small airliner moves to the CS300... Continue Reading
Swiss hard and soft product heads talk premium #PaxEx
ZURICH — All too often, it feels like hard and soft product development — seats, entertainment and connectivity versus service, food and bev... Continue Reading
Swiss displays consistent shorthaul business class surprises
ZURICH — As Europe’s low-cost carriers continue their push to snag cost-conscious business travellers and upmarket leisure flyers away from ... Continue Reading
Practice makes perfect? Bombardier talks CSeries cabin testing
On the sidelines of Swiss’ first Bombardier CSeries aircraft, RGN gleaned some colour about how new-build airliner cabins are tested — and h... Continue Reading
RGN Premium: A quiet “alignment” in strategic context
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Swiss’ CSeries debuts ZIM seats, full production cabin
ZÜRICH — For the Bombardier CSeries’ first passenger flight last month, the test aircraft’s stock Zodiac seats were remarkably comfortable, ... Continue Reading
Swiss’ Zurich Senator Whisky Club delights, apart from the €8 wine
Sometimes you come across a passenger experience idea that sounds so genius that you wonder why nobody has ever had it before. Swiss’ Whisky... Continue Reading
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