US to welcome vaccinated visitors, but questions remain
Airlines, air travelers and passenger experience advocates alike are celebrating the Biden Administration’s plan to enable fully vaccinated ... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Trump Administration
American now accepting mask exemptions for disabled passengers
American Airlines is now accepting face mask exemptions for disabled passengers who are unable to wear one, after aligning its mask protocol... Continue Reading
Press Release: US airports awarded more than $1.2 billion in grants
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award more than $1.2 billion in airport s... Continue Reading
Lawmakers encouraged to include PaxEx suppliers in relief package
As Congress works to pass legislation to help US airlines weather the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, two leading airline passenger experienc... Continue Reading
Gogo’s Thorne and SmartSky’s Stone talk nextgen ATG
Runway Girl Network has favored the phrase “the gloves are off” to describe the war of words amongst certain inflight connectivity stakehold... Continue Reading
Child separation policies may compromise anti-trafficking initiatives
An unconfirmed story making the rounds on social media yesterday of a flight attendant who expressed heartbreak after transporting a group o... Continue Reading
Editorial: Passengers must help to keep industry’s nose clean
Sandwiched between an awkwardly inappropriate comment — to a sea of white faces — about being “glad nobody took a knee” during the national ... Continue Reading
US airlines seek to convince Trump to uphold CORSIA commitment
US airlines are urging the Trump administration to uphold President Obama’s commitment to participate in the voluntary phase of ICAO&#... Continue Reading
Customer service leads the way as airlines cope with electronics ban
The electronics ban, introduced in March by the current administration on flights to the United States from several Muslim-majority countrie... Continue Reading
Press Release: APEX proposes biometrics solution to #ElectronicsBan
APEX (Airline Passenger Experience Association), a four-decade old international airline trade association, called for a hold on the potenti... Continue Reading
Is Emirates experiencing economic turbulence of its own making?
This week, Emirates announced it is cutting back on flights to the US in response to the travel and laptop bans implemented by the Trump adm... Continue Reading
Press Release: APEX calls for immediate solutions to Electronics Ban
APEX (Airline Passenger Experience Association), a four-decade old international airline trade association, called for immediate government-... Continue Reading
#PaxEx Podcast: Laptop bans, Cathay pans, AIX plans
Welcome to Episode 44 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest this episode is aircraft interiors and travel expert John Walton. A global nomad, Joh... Continue Reading
UK transport secretary outlines thinking behind electronics ban
UK secretary of state for transport Chris Grayling today batted away questions in Parliament over why devices affected by the new electronic... Continue Reading
OPINION: Muslim ban endangers aviation beyond the greenroom
Journalists aren’t normally supposed to be the story. Yesterday, I was. My story about being greenroomed — taken to the “full primary” or “s... Continue Reading
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