World Travel Catering & Onboard Services Expo (WTCE) will return to Hamburg in April 2025 with more features, introduced to highlight the latest advances in the onboard sector. From onboard technology to sustainability, wellbeing to thought leadership, the event will have something to offer everyone in the inflight catering, passenger comfort and onboard services sectors
Viasat has unveiled JetXP, a series of enhancements to its satellite network and service model that can benefit its in-flight connectivity customers in the business aviation sector. Viasat’s Jet ConneX customers will be the first to benefit from performance improvements, including new features such as uncapped speeds, expanded capacity, and increased network prioritisation
90 commercial aircraft were delivered in August 2024, the highest August figure since 2018. However, year-to-date aircraft orders are behind 2023 levels, though the 15,651 aircraft backlog remains equivalent to more than 10 years’ worth of work
A new category has been added to the internationally renowned Red Dot Award for product design. Assessment criteria in the Sustainable Design category include renewability, repairability, durability and recyclability
The number of aircraft with in-flight connectivity is projected to surpass 60,800 by 2033, with NGSO and multi-orbit solutions helping reshape the market as airlines transition from legacy systems. Technical advances are fuelling bandwidth growth by reducing costs, leading to an over 20-fold increase in leased capacity
Samson Arega has been appointed as group vice president of customer experience at Ethiopian Airlines
Jamco America has entered into a partnership with Sekisui Kydex, a thermoplastics expert, to create a modular and textured branding panel for use on Alaska Airlines’ aircraft cabin bulkheads
Moment, an in-flight digital technology supplier, has acquired Airfree, an expert in in-flight e-commerce systems. With this deal, Moment gains Airfree’s inflight retail technologies, which are connected to more than 350 duty-free stores worldwide
Approximately 150 skilled aerospace workers in Fareham, UK, are escalating their strike action after claiming their employer, Eaton Ltd, a supplier of aviation parts including interconnects, has continued to fail to make a pay offer that would bring them in line with industry averages
Global air traffic demand has returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2024, with airlines now turning their attention to fleet expansion while overcoming production issues. A new report by the Alton Aviation Consultancy projects that 10,000 more aircraft will operate by 2034, despite supply chain constraints
