LSG’s COVID-19 food trend update asks big questions
COVID-19 has reshaped the way airlines deliver onboard food in 2020. Some have stopped entirely, some have stopped on some flights, some hav... Continue Reading
Author: John Walton
Designing regulation to enable seat safety and innovation
In the context of unprecedented distrust in aviation safety regulation, largely but not entirely driven by the exposure of regulatory failur... Continue Reading
Aviation’s role in managing forthcoming COVID-19 vaccine mandates
With what feels like a drumbeat of good news around vaccinations to prevent the ongoing spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COV... Continue Reading
Innovating into leisure travel in the COVID transition and beyond
Leisure travel is a massive part of the puzzle for aviation’s COVID-19 recovery, but it remains a big unknown as we continue to read into su... Continue Reading
Inside Stelia’s plans for certifying its Opera narrowbody seat
Whenever a new seat type comes along, especially one that moves the needle among its competitors as dramatically as Stelia’s new outward-fac... Continue Reading
Aviation’s COVID-19 “mad cow burger” problem
In 1990, as years of concern about mad cow disease in the UK reached critical mass, the country’s agriculture minister fed his four-year-old... Continue Reading
Inside Singapore Airlines’ training for businesses
For almost half the history of aviation, Singapore Airlines’ flight attendants have been the most iconic design personification of an airlin... Continue Reading
Auf wiedersehen, Brot: Lufthansa Group goes buy-on-board for shorthaul
Farewell to Lufthansa’s much-derided complimentary economy class half-sandwich: from spring 2021, the airline group is moving to a buy-on-bo... Continue Reading
Korean’s Asiana takeover to reshape NE Asia passenger landscape
Korean Air is to take over its struggling hometown challenger Asiana Airlines for the equivalent of US$1.6 billion, in a move that will resh... Continue Reading
FAA sounds warning on aircraft interior disinfection processes
As airlines worldwide continue their additional cleaning and disinfection protocols in order to combat the risk of onboard spread of the SAR... Continue Reading
COVID highlights how airlines need to focus on the whole journey
In a normal year, and at a normal time, we’d be talking about the importance of the whole passenger journey in terms of lengthening airlines... Continue Reading
COVID-19 lounge food precautions improve BA #PaxEx
Finding silver linings in the airline passenger experience world during the COVID-19 pandemic seems like finding a diamond-encrusted needle ... Continue Reading
In Conversation Transcribed: Singapore and COVID with Aaron Yong
John Walton: Hello and welcome to Runway Girl Network In Conversation, a deep dive into aviation and the passenger experience. I am RGN cont... Continue Reading
The Eurotunnel’s Channel Tunnel car shuttle shines during COVID
Travel between Europe and the UK has changed to an almost unrecognisable extent during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the UK’s unilateral two-w... Continue Reading
Clearing the longhaul narrowbody #PaxEx perception hurdles
Longhaul narrowbody flights — the ability to fly long and thin routes at a time when many routes will be increasingly thin — are going to be... Continue Reading