Biman bakes its own birds…literally
How do you maintain a reliable supply of poultry to produce more than 5,000 inflight meals daily in a country where hygiene standards are of... Continue Reading
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Easy-to-read boarding pass looks Smart
If you’re the type of traveler to arrive at the airport with hours to spare, walk casually to your gate, know the Sbarro menu by heart and l... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: No one is as vested in your well-being as you
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Happy New Year! As we gallop into the Year of the Horse, would you know this was the greeting used in Hong Kong and other... Continue Reading
Women of Boeing to be celebrated
The Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour plans to celebrate the women of Boeing – those who, since 1916, were the first to wor... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: When coach comfort is number one
As a frequent, usually-for-pleasure, always coach-fare passenger, I operated under the assumption that US airlines were far inferior to the ... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: When #PaxEx and #TravSec converge
OK. Let me state the obvious. In any aspect of our personal and professional lives security is quite simply an annoyance that we usually giv... Continue Reading
Celebrating innovation in amenity kits
In 1914 Tony Jannus made history by flying the first plane with a paying commercial passenger from St. Petersburg to Tampa Bay in Florida. T... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: ‘Tube fighting’ at 35,000ft
Many of us like to spend part of our pay checks on pay-per-view TV events involving angry guys – and sometimes gals – fighting e... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: Holding it in…in-flight
I knew switching flights meant abandoning the likely upgrade I would have gotten on our original flight. I was happy to be aboard. On the la... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: Managing data exchange between aerospace suppliers
In April 2010 Apple debuted the iPad and press reviews were generally negative – consumer polls were about the same. One consumer poll... Continue Reading
A travel ‘STEP’ that makes sense
There you are, at the hotel bar of a swank resort in that exotic destination you’ve been bragging to your pals and coworkers about for... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: Redefining Premium with the Spaceseat
Over Christmas I flew to Los Angeles to visit friends, and decided to treat myself to a flight with Air New Zealand. Having interacted with ... Continue Reading
IoT: The Jetsons won’t have anything on us soon
If you read any kind of tech related information on a regular basis, you have probably heard of IoT, or the “Internet of Things”. If you hav... Continue Reading
How Lufthansa won a lifetime customer
In an era when stories about airline service tend to be negative, it is nice to hear a story of exceptional service, and even more interesti... Continue Reading
Infograpic: Celebrating the human side of air transport
In the day-to-day rush of doing our jobs as aviation professionals, we sometimes forget to stand back and take a look at what an extraordina... Continue Reading
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