Japanese airline, Peach, has co-developed a new IFE system with ABC and TEAC that provides passengers with video-on-demand, a moving map, and a unique ordering technology for inflight shopping
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The Ask First disability awareness training initiative is being launched to help the aviation industry improve the travel experience for disabled passengers
Jet Edge is fitting Gogo’s Avance L5 4G connectivity systems across its super-mid and large cabin aircraft fleet
Media Carrier has been successful in an international tender process for Air Astana’s ‘Digital Press Service’, which will see it provide its Media Box digital media library to the Kazakhstani airline
Some refreshingly ‘old normal’ airline news! From the 1st of May, American Airlines will reintroduce a full inflight beverage service in all its domestic premium cabins, followed in June with main cabin service
Following a qualification and approval programme, Bucher’s unconventional Bionic Partition is now being installed as a line-fit and retrofit option on A320 aircraft. The multi-layer composite multifunctional partitions are being fitted in the rear Door 4 area
As a bellwether for recovery of the aviation sector, data from lounge operator, Airport Dimensions, indicates that its market is heading towards recovery, with recent weeks marking the busiest period for the group since the beginning of the pandemic
The CDC has released findings from laboratory modelling of exposures to SARS-CoV-2 on single-aisle and twin-aisle aircraft. In scenarios when the middle seats were vacant, the models predict that exposures are reduced by 23% to 57%, compared with full aircraft occupancy
QCM and 4Drive&Aviation have co-developed Flamelab 4.0, claimed to be the world’s first automatic flammability test chamber, capable of performing 12-second and 60-second vertical bunsen burner tests without human input
ANA has adopted Adaptive’s ACES mobile IFE system across its fleet, in order to digitalise its inflight magazines, newspapers and magazines. The airline predicts that the switch to digital press could reduce ANA’s carbon footprint by eliminating more than 1,500 tons of paper emissions per year