Last weekend, Dubai-based low-cost carrier flydubai invited dignitaries, distinguished VIP guests from Boeing, Lumexis, DTI Solutions and dozens of international journalists from around the globe to experience flydubai’s inaugural flight from Dubai, UAE to the Maldives. Tomás Romero, a regular contributor to the Airline Passenger Experience magazine and APEX Media Platform, was lucky enough to [...]
January 22, 2013
Qantas is in the midst of equipping its domestic Boeing 767s with wireless inflight entertainment and repurposed iPads, and will have fitted 16 widebodies by March, confirms system provider Panasonic Avionics. In July 2012 Qantas surprised the inflight entertainment world when it announced the selection of Panasonic’s eXW streaming video service for its entire domestic [...]
January 18, 2013
File this story under the “what will they think of next” category. A German company is transforming inflight food and beverage trolleys into wireless inflight entertainment (IFE) systems that can be simply rolled onto aircraft. Cabinnet Akkurt Group’s so-called intelligent IFE ‘iTrolley’ contains a server and wireless equipment. It is designed to run off of [...]
December 6, 2012
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 [...]
December 3, 2012
For as long as inflight entertainment screens have been in airliners, blockbuster movies have been the star of the show. But just as critically acclaimed television dramas are now attracting big audiences on the ground – think Mad Men, Newsroom and Game of Thrones – TV is enjoying a new wave of popularity in-flight. Is [...]
January 25, 2013
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