APEX Editor's Blog

Airline managers are becoming much more rational and disciplined when it comes to capacity, according to International Airlines Group (IAG) chief executive Willie Walsh, who also notes that his group has no further acquisition plans in the short to medium term following its recent takeover of Spanish carrier Vueling. Walsh made the comments during a [...]

We’re all used to separating our recyclables from our waste at home, but have you ever felt a pang of guilt on an aircraft when all your on-board waste is often collected in the same refuse bag? In a bid to address this issue, British Airways has just started a programme to collect and recycle [...]

Virgin Atlantic’s new short-haul service “Little Red” may be separated by an ocean from its American cousin, but the two are united in a modern passenger experience – but also elusive profits that question business models. Virgin Atlantic prides itself on doing things differently. At a time Europe’s major carriers are off-loading routes to a [...]

Every once in a while a movement comes along that shakes up an industry and serves as a line in the sand between the staid, conventional thinking of the past and the radical new directions of the future. That movement is sweeping through the halls of airline marketing departments big and small right now; and [...]

It’s 2013, and human beings are the largest they’ve ever been. Taller, wider, broader in the shoulders: millennia of evolution and modern lifestyle factors have all contributed to the fact that people are just bigger than they used to be. And part of our modern lifestyle means people travel more — even the largest of us. [...]

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 [...]

Bankruptcies, spiking oil prices and general economic malaise have plagued the global airline industry for the better part of the last decade, with North American carriers being particularly hard hit. But as those airlines embark on a steady climb to recovery, some of their global alliance partners believe opportunities abound for US carriers to catch-up [...]

APEX is proud to announce the finalists for the Passenger Choice Awards as well as the finalists for the best in passenger experience and best achievement in technology for the AVION awards!

 The awards will be distributed at the forthcoming APEX EXPO in Long Beach. “We’re happy to announce the finalists for this year’s program [...]

Londoners are a hard-to-please lot. The city boasts five airports yet we insist it is in dire need of more capacity. Residents in the west take to the barricades whenever anyone tries to build a third runway at Heathrow, whereas BAA, Heathrow’s operator, is, unsurprisingly, all in favour of further runways at Heathrow, as is [...]

For an engineering services company that carefully manages growth and describes its business model as “pretty conservative”, Northwest Aerospace Technologies’ decision to more than double its employee numbers over the last 18 months speaks volumes about the level of demand today for commercial aircraft retrofit work, including interior reconfigurations and inflight entertainment (IFE) and connectivity [...]