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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 […]

Lufthansa Group First to introduce ‘Green Fares’
August 15, 2022  | Written by Dirk Singer
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Many airlines now have voluntary carbon offsetting schemes, where passengers are encouraged to pay a certain amount (depending on class travelled and distance) to offset the emissions from their flights. The Lufthansa Group has now gone one step further by offering so-called green fares from Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark and Norway) on all group airlines.  By doing […]

APEX TECH: How the Business of IFE is Changing
July 20, 2022  | Written by apexmedia

APEX TECH 2022 Sessions: Content Acquisition & ‎Licensing; subscription-based vs title-by-‎title; ‎Content Recommendation ‎& Discovery; metadata; ‎data analytics The calendar-fixed, 30-day ‎exhibition cycle; changing ‎‎exhibition windows; ‎dynamic refresh Revenue generation; ‎programmatic advertising; ‎metadata ‎mining Cloud based workflows Portable wireless entertainment solutions Edge-caching as an IFE solution The Integration of IFE and ‎C: On the Road […]

Quivertree Media and Kokoro Kids Pact Takes Flight with Fun, Educational IFE Content for Kids
May 20, 2022  | Written by Tomas Romero
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End-to-end content service provider Quivertree Media has partnered with adaptive learning experts Kokoro Kids, to bring a host of educational games to in-flight entertainment (IFE) users of all ages. Anyone who’s ever traveled with a youngster knows that keeping them entertained is priority number one when you fly. That’s why the recently announced partnership between […]

ASF Meeting Offers Key Insights into the Sustainability of Inflight Products
April 22, 2022  | Written by Hailey Findlay
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On February 9, Aviation Sustainability Forum (ASF) hosted its first event of 2022. The non-profit, which aims to improve the sustainability and circularity of inflight products and services, announced in January that it would combine resources with IFSA to promote ASF’s work as a primary sustainability initiative of the IFSA membership. The online event brought […]