LATAM Airlines Group plans to overhaul the interiors of more than 200 aircraft—two-thirds of its global fleet—over the next two years, for an investment of $400 million, the company said during its second-quarter operations call.
Santiago-based LATAM Airlines Group will overhaul the interior of over 200 aircraft—two-thirds of its global fleet—over the next two years, in an investment of $400 million, the company said during its 2Q 2018 quarterly operations call.
Satellite-based surveillance system developer Aireon and the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) have started pre-registration for the Aircraft Locating and Emergency Response Tracking (ALERT) service—a means of providing the last known position of an aircraft in distress.
Chicago-based United Airlines is working on a lie-flat premium-cabin seat and plans to have the first ones in service on Boeing 737-10s sometime in 2020, United president Scott Kirby said.
Recaro Aircraft Seating has acquired land and buildings near its headquarters in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, as part of a major investment plan to support the company’s rapid growth.
A Travelport study has revealed that 55% of US business travelers are willing to pay for travel upgrades out of their own pocket and 80% prefer to have direct control over their plans.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has replaced its Airbus A380 on the Zurich-Singapore route with an A380 version fitted with the latest onboard cabin productions and innovations.
A survey by aircraft-connectivity supplier Inmarsat has revealed that 83% of business travelers would rebook with airlines that offer high-quality connectivity and 74% of business travelers now see inflight Wi-Fi as “crucial.”
Virgin Australia is taking steps to ramp up its product offering on Australia-New Zealand routes, in preparation for increased competition when its partnership with Air New Zealand ends.
Finnair has launched a new high-speed internet service on its European Airbus A320 family flights in a partnership with California-based communications provider Viasat.
The Single European Sky ATM Research Deployment Manager (SESAR DM) and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a memorandum of cooperation July 19, marking the start of a formal collaboration on a new satellite-based communications capability for aviation.
Airbus has unveiled AirSense, an analytics platform offering that fuses ground-, space- and aircraft-based data for precise aircraft tracking and flight route optimization applications.
European leisure specialist TUI Group is considering swapping some of its later Boeing 737 MAX 8 deliveries to the larger MAX 10 and, separately, is performing a series of Wi-Fi evaluations.
Newly rebranded Air Italy will not attempt to copy Qatar Airways’ style, despite the Arab carrier having taken a 49% stake in the company, the Italian carrier’s chief customer experience (CCE) officer said July 18.
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft president Fred Cromer held out the possibility of the company’s Atmosphère cabin being adopted for its Q400 turboprops as he unveiled the new interior fit at the Farnborough Airshow.
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft president Fred Cromer held out the possibility of the company’s Atmosphère cabin being adopted for its Q400 turboprops as he unveiled the new interior fit at the Farnborough Air Show.
Inflight connectivity provider Gogo is considering a sale, splitting up the company or other exit plans, and has been approached with a “number of inquiries in the past few weeks,” top executives said in a July 13 teleconference.
The European Union (EU) has called for greater cooperation and progress the Single European Sky (SES) framework to help reduce to flight delays, as the busy European summer vacation period highlights the disruption travelers regularly face.
Bombardier is confident that interiors supply-chain challenges that plagued its CSeries program will not be an issue on its new CRJ Atmosphere cabin, even though the supplier—Zodiac Aerospace—is the same.
