Airports face challenges between flexibility and premium PaxEx
Modern international airports face an interesting mix of competing priorities, especially in the premium space. As a rule, the more volatile... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Virgin Australia
Blurring the business-first line leaves a hard product opportunity gap
The line between business and first class has been shifting ever since the former was introduced some forty years ago, but recent developmen... Continue Reading
Pint-sized #PaxEx presents challenges for parents
Traveling with a child is harder today than it used to be, and a lot of that is due to prevailing trends in the airline industry. For the fr... Continue Reading
Press Release: Virgin Australia taps caterer gategroup as sole provider
Virgin Australia today announced a long-term relationship with Gate Gourmet – the airline catering brand of gategroup – that will see the ca... Continue Reading
#PaxEx Podcast: Catering giant serves up wisdom on compliance
Welcome to Episode 54 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest for this episode is Mark Naylor, who serves as Head of Compliance for Gate Gourmet in... Continue Reading
Press Release: Routehappy finds inflight wifi is more ubiquitous than ever
Routehappy, the rich content platform for flight shopping, released today its annual Routehappy 2018 Wi-Fi Report, providing the most compre... 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
Press Release: Aerolineas Argentinas arms crew with SITAONAIR tech
Aerolineas Argentinas (AR) has become Latin America’s first airline to digitally empower its cabin crews to take the inflight passenger serv... Continue Reading
How Stellar Entertainment stays stellar despite shadow of CSP giant
When Stellar Entertainment lost five major clients in a row a few years ago, some inflight entertainment industry stakeholders wondered if t... Continue Reading
A long goodbye to the “Chauffeur-Drive” premium airline amenity
The image of a sunglasses-wearing, leather passport holder-toting airline passenger stepping out from behind the darkened windows of a priva... Continue Reading
New clients in the offing, Lufthansa Systems is primed for market shift
Wireless IFE provider Lufthansa Systems is gearing up to announce deals with no fewer than three more airlines, Jan-Peter Gaense, director p... Continue Reading
May only be a matter of time until amenity kits are digital deliveries
Tiny toothpaste. Eyemask. Antiseptic towelette. Socks. Amenity kits today have changed very little over the more than 60 years they’ve been ... Continue Reading
In Conversation: How Qantas is thriving in end-of-the-world location
RGN deputy editor John Walton is in conversation with Jamie Freed, a Reuters senior correspondent covering aviation and business in Sydney. ... Continue Reading
Press Release: Virgin Australia selects Gogo for inflight connectivity
Gogo (NASDAQ: GOGO), the leading global provider of broadband connectivity products and services for aviation, announced today that it has b... Continue Reading
DIY Eurobusiness on LCC Tigerair beats regular biz on short flight
In Australia, as elsewhere, securing extra comfort in the air can be tricky. For a recent one-hour trip I needed to take from Hobart to Melb... Continue Reading
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