APEX Editor's Blog

Ninety-nine percent of adult airline passengers who travel with a portable electronic device (PED) – such as a smartphone or tablet – carried at least one PED onboard with them while traveling in the past 12 months, with seven in ten (69 percent) reporting they used their devices during flight, according to a new joint [...]

The word “social” aptly describes so many agendas and events being promoted and hosted by the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX). This week the leading distributors of short-subject and TV movie programming got very social with IFE TV buyers in Lisbon and the outcome of their “rapid fire” chats and education sessions were spectacular. Some [...]

Like many of us, Paramount Pictures’ senior VP, non-theatrical distribution Joan Filippini regularly finds herself using her iPad while watching TV (and keeping her smart phone within arm’s reach). “It’s become almost instinctual to be entertained every second of the day,” she tells the APEX editor’s blog. That’s one of the main reasons why there is [...]

Yesterday I read a news headline that proclaimed, “When it comes to inflight Wi-Fi, supply far exceeds demand”. I couldn’t disagree more. One need only use inflight Wi-Fi – or read the complaints on social media from people who do – to see that demand far exceeds the capacity of current onboard connectivity systems, be [...]

Has the regulatory environment ever been as favourable to the inflight use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) than it is today? Probably not. US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski seems positively giddy at the prospect of being able to use PEDs during takeoff and landing, and late last year called on the FAA to [...]

Inflight magazine publishers have been doing it for years – offering airlines a slice of the revenues generated from advertisements in the magazines they publish on their behalf. The inflight magazine model has proven to be a win-win-win for airlines, advertisers and passengers, as it puts products and services in front of some of the [...]

Two years ago the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) forged a philanthropic partnership with ORBIS International, a non-profit humanitarian organisation that works in developing countries to save sight worldwide. On announcing the partnership, many APEX members showed an outpouring of support for ORBIS, offering everything from cabling to gifts in kind. One group forwent a [...]

Joel Connable, an Emmy-award winning television journalist, recently hit the show floor of the APEX EXPO in Long Beach, California for his Travel TV News programme. Connable’s crew toured exhibits to highlight some of the newest industry innovations on display at the passenger experience industry’s leading annual gathering. Check out his video below. via YouTube [...]

Executives at The IMS Company believe customer momentum for its seat-back RAVE inflight entertainment system will continue unabated as the firm works to expand its base of 12 airline customers. Roughly a year ago IMS debuted the RAVE system, which stores content and functionality independently in each seat-back, and has since amassed a customer list [...]

LiveTV arrived at the show with the DeLorean time machine featured in the hit movie “Back to the Future” to counter critics that have repeatedly expressed doubts over the company’s ability to bring ultra high-speed connectivity supported by Ka-band satellites to the market before 2015. “We had to go into the future just like Doc [...]