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Lifetime achievement award – Michael Childers
October 24, 2022  | Written by Dirk Singer
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From time to time, APEX honors industry leaders who have dedicated their lives to the enhancement of the passenger experience and driven transformative change for the industry.  The APEX Board considers nominations once each year, but since 2014 only three such awards have been given. This year the award goes to an industry veteran who […]

IFE Post-Production and Content Integration Facilities To Learn Impact of Trusted Partner Network’s New Membership Model and Content Security Platform at APEX EXPO
October 18, 2022  | Written by Michael Childers
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The Trusted Partner Network (TPN), the content security program that provides best practices guidelines on behalf of the major Hollywood studios for inflight entertainment, has announced a new multi-tiered membership model impacting IFE content integration and post-production facilities. TPN believes the new structure will provide greater flexibility, efficiency and transparency to global Content owners and […]

Ukes on a plane: Southwest surprises passengers on Honolulu-bound flight with ukuleles
September 19, 2022  | Written by Tomas Romero
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Southwest Airlines ushered in the return of fun, in-flight promotions Friday by partnering with Guitar Center to gift surprised passengers on the carrier’s Long Beach to Honolulu flight with ukuleles and live, in-flight music lessons. Honolulu-bound passengers at the Southwest Airlines check-in counter at Long Beach airport on Friday may have suspected they were in […]

Airlines increasingly on-board with sustainable cuisine
September 5, 2022  | Written by Dirk Singer
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Last month, Japanese airline Zipair made headlines with the news that it was introducing an “environmentally friendly meal option” for passengers.  That meal option included ingredients made from insects – in particular cricket powder. Though there is in fact a whole movement promoting insect-based food as a solution to both environmental problems and world hunger, […]

John Oliver took aim at carbon offsetting. Is he right?
August 25, 2022  | Written by Dirk Singer
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A lot of airlines now take part in carbon offsetting programmes. Some include it automatically in the ticket price, others give passengers the option to voluntarily offset their flights. As we detailed in our post earlier this month, the Lufthansa Group has even started offering ‘green fares’ from flights out of Scandinavia, where passengers can […]