Highlights of the September issue include the Digital Experience Manager, which can revolutionise IFE curation; our ever-popular annual seating review; how to optimise seat designs for streamlined maintenance; a preview of APEX Global Expo, and more…
The Crystal Cabin Award, the world’s leading accolade for innovations in aircraft cabins, has opened the application phase for the 2025 awards, and there are some interesting new developments. Most notably, a dedicated category for accessibility innovations has been introduced
BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, has expanded its partnership with Delta Air Lines to include the live, 24-7 BBC News channel
As American Airlines enters the fall/autumn travel season, customers in its long-haul premium cabins will be given new limited-edition amenity kits that highlight the airline’s longstanding fundraising campaign with Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and contain wellbeing products
Qatar Airways has released an interesting new marketing campaign, a global ‘AI Adventure’ film which uses artificial intelligence to enable anyone to be part of the emotive story. Advanced AI capabilities enable you to place yourself within the film and become the star, the idea being that its customers are at the heart of the airline
Air Canada has entered into a new IFE content agreement with Anuvu, which will increase the airline’s content catalogue to include more than 1,000 movie options and over 3,500 TV episodes, and more diverse programming options
More range, more length, more seats, more width: take a look at Qantas’ upcoming Airbus A321XLR experience, with upgrades over the outgoing Boeing 737 fleet
Icelandair has worked with local artist Sara Riel and Skysupply to create a beautiful and sustainable design for the second in its series of business-class amenity kits
SmartLynx Airlines, an ACMI, cargo and charter operator with a fleet of close to 70 aircraft, is digitalising its cabin issue reporting process in order to enable its maintenance teams to carry out necessary aircraft cabin interior fixes more efficiently and in less time
Following a successful trial of Bluebox’s Blueview digital services platform, Icelandic low-cost airline, Play Airlines, has now deployed the onboard retail system across its entire fleet of 10 Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft
