Bluebox and dnata’s partnership, announced yesterday, means airlines can generate ancillary revenue by selling meals and other products via Bluebox’s virtual trolley. In-flight entertainment (IFE) provider Bluebox Aviation Systems and dnata’s catering branch are pooling resources to develop and market joint product and service offerings across Australasia and Asia-Pacific territories. The companies will tailor their […]
Galley design on airplanes has remained broadly unchanged for decades, but AIM Altitude has plans to defy convention. Aircraft galleys are finally getting the attention they deserve, with a variety of Internet of Things and sensor initiatives from Diehl Aviation, KID-Systeme, Safran Cabin and others coming to the fore. One concept, ARCA, the progeny of […]
Airlines insist the quality of their drinking water on aircraft is up to par, but scientists continue to have doubts. In an era of increased environmental awareness in which no self-respecting Gen Zer worth their Hydro Flask would be caught dead drinking from a single-use plastic bottle, giving passengers access to clean water on board […]
American Airlines has extended its preordered meal service to the premium cabin on regional American Eagle flights, with the service now available to passengers on nearly 1,900 daily flights – more flights than any US carrier, it says. American Airlines is the only airline in the United States to offer a meal preordering service for […]
With Valentine’s Day one week away, airlines around the world are making sure that love is in the air. Anyone who thinks you need to wait until Valentine‘s Day to experience something terribly romantic on an airplane has clearly never crossed time zones watching Love, Actually with a shared headphone splitter. A number of carriers are […]
A tour of Korean Air’s farm on Jeju Island reminds us that in-flight meals aren’t possible without the people who tend to the vegetables, chickens, cattle and water that appear on the tray table. Hyunho Kim smiles as he picks a perfectly formed, bright-red bell pepper from a vine that stretches 20 feet up toward […]
On a long-haul flight, each passenger creates an average of 1.1 pounds of single-use plastic waste. PriestmanGoode is challenging airlines and passengers to help bring that number down. The average yearly plastic waste from travel-size toiletries in the UK weighs as much as seven Boeing 777 airplanes. PriestmanGoode’s ongoing exhibition at London’s Design Museum, which looks at how to minimize waste in air travel, is peppered […]
Aerospace engineers already know digital twins are great, and now airline caterers are acquiring a taste for them, too. IATA has revealed in an environment briefing that, in 2018, airlines generated an estimated 6.7 million metric tons of trash (0.003 percent of global waste, according to The World Bank). Around 20 percent of airline trash […]
In a tie with Air Canada, Alaska Airlines has earned top spot in this survey for the second straight year €” maintaining the streak that Virgin America held before it was acquired by the West Coast carrier. But this year veggies weren’t the only greens that earned these airlines top marks. Efforts to minimize single-use […]
After securing a five-year contract extension with Air France and KLM in March 2019, Heineken has gone on to launch a first-of-its-kind bar within KLM’s new non-Schengen Crown Lounge, known as the KLM House, at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Officially opened on November 28, KLM’s new non-Schengen Crown Lounge is the largest airline lounge in Europe, spanning two […]