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Flying United? Charge up your devices and bring wired headphones
Charge up your devices and bring wired headphones. While United Airlines continues to take delivery of new Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft with its new United Next interior, retrofits of the carrier’s more than 500 other narrowbody aircraft have yet to start. I flew with United on a recent weekend getaway from New York LaGuardia to Chicago O’Hare ...
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Op-Ed: Fragmented investments undermine transportation innovation. In this Op-Ed, Gabriel J. Lopez-Bernal, the president of passenger transport connectivity solutions provider Icomera North America makes the... Continue Reading.
Aer Lingus A330 business impresses despite hiccups
Dec 2022. Aer Lingus A330 business impresses despite hiccups. With 2022 drawing to a close, I was craving one last adventure. Luckily for me, I had built up some vacation time and quickly set my sights on Europe, where a few specific experiences had …
Eurowings Discover becomes Discover Airlines in compelling ...
Just over two years after it launched operations as Eurowings Discover, the Lufthansa Group’s leisure airline has embraced a new name — Discover Airlines — and unveiled a clean and compelling new brand identity to connote “quality, joy and ease”. “Eurowings Discover is now Discover Airlines,” the carrier confirmed in a statement ...
The French Connection: First Class onboard TGV - Runway Girl
The train itself was a single-deck TGV réseau, dating from 1992. The first class compartment was functional and spacious, but the interior was dated with scratchy furnishings, despite a mid-2000s cabin renovation involving designer Christian Lacroix. It had 2+1 seating with airline and table layouts. The seat was comfortable but needed a refresh.
Amtrak Midwest’s Siemens Venture coaches enter service
Amtrak on Tuesday took a major step towards a desperately needed fleet overhaul, bringing passenger experience into the 21st century. Amtrak Midwest, the state-supported route network throughout the American Midwest including Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Missouri, placed into service its first four Siemens Venture passenger coaches.
Airbus develops “light-refit” larger overhead bins for A320 family
Airbus isn’t alone in the retrofit market, of course. Diehl Aviation has Enlarged Bins in its portfolio and Safran Cabin’s ECOS Shelf Bins were refitted onto the first of 24 Air France Airbus A320s in July 2021. But there’s certainly something attractive for an airline, or indeed a lessor, to fit into the standard Airspace design language ...
Qantas’ SYD-JNB with A380: the shape of superjumbos to come?
Qantas is redeploying the Dreamliners it uses on the long flight: Sydney to Johannesburg is 14 hours 40 minutes against the prevailing winds, while the return flight is 11 hours 55 minutes. The A380 effectively boosts capacity per flight if Qantas maintains the six-weekly schedule the 787s used — the airline says that “the A380 will fly up ...
Delta versus Alaska on each carrier’s Boeing 737-900ER - Runway …
Alaska is nearly finished equipping its mainline fleet with Intelsat’s 2Ku solution, while Delta is well along in its quest to replace 2Ku with Viasat’s Ka-band offering. Delta now offers free connectivity for SkyMiles members (or $10 without the free membership). Alaska, on the other hand, offers free messaging or an $8 flat rate for ...