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APEX Weekly Wrap: Air Transport Action Group Explains Need For Green Recovery
September 25, 2020  | Written by Stephanie Taylor
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This week’s episode sees Michael Gill, executive director of the Air Transport Action Group, discussing the importance of a green recovery for the aviation industry. Despite the ongoing affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial aviation, Gill explains that the general consensus across the aviation industry and the public is that “we need to take […]

Tooshlights: Pandemic Creates Flush of Orders From Airports for Smart Restroom Indicators
 | Written by Harriet Baskas
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Even before COVID-19, many airports were embracing touchless technology in restrooms, for faucets, paper towel and soap dispensers, and toilet flushing. Many airports were also installing smart systems to help monitor bathroom usage and improve cleaning and maintenance routines. Tooshlights helps airports monitor restrooms from an operational perspective, while also enabling social distancing. The new […]

Industry Experts Predict How the Pandemic Will Change IFEC and Onboard Retail
September 24, 2020  | Written by Paul Sillers
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This year’s virtual World Aviation Festival included a panel session about the long-term future of IFEC and its associated retail challenges and opportunities. APEX Media director Maryann Simson chaired the session, which featured industry experts from Panasonic Avionics, Viasat, Emirates and El Al. One of the main takeaways is that passengers’ personal electronic devices will […]

Boeing’s UV Sanitization Wand Will Soon Be Available For Airline Use
 | Written by Emma Kelly
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Boeing’s handheld ultraviolet (UV) wand, which was developed to sanitize aircraft interiors, will be manufactured for commercial use by US sanitization technology company Healthe. The wand was successfully tested as part of Boeing’s latest ecoDemonstrator program onboard an Etihad Airways Boeing 787-10 aircraft. Boeing designed and developed a handheld UV wand as part of its […]

Inflight Dublin Upgrades Wireless IFE Web App
September 23, 2020  | Written by Stephanie Taylor
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Health and safety considerations and revenue-generating opportunities, especially through advertising, are the focus of Inflight Dublin’s upgraded web app. Inflight Dublin has revealed an upgraded passenger web app for its Everhub wireless IFE system. The upgrade was spurred by the ever-present need to support new hygiene and safety protocols relating to COVID-19, and the company […]

IAMA Updates Rulebook for Streamlined Aircraft Modifications
September 22, 2020  | Written by Stephanie Taylor
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Independent Aircraft Modifier Alliance (IAMA) has released an updated version of its Rulebook, which it first published in March with the goal of helping members navigate the certification of aircraft modifications. The alliance is also working on an auditing system to enforce the IAMA Rulebook’s principles. IAMA published a rulebook of best practices in March […]

Spafax’s Buzz Set to Break the IFE Content Cycle, Increase Flexibility
September 21, 2020  | Written by Paul Sillers
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APEX Media spoke to Paul Colley, Spafax’s senior vice-president of Technology, about how the company’s new Buzz and Sprint products will help airlines align more closely with the content experience travelers are used to at home. The content service provider is also introducing a team of specialists in specific types of content who will share […]

Axinom Mosaic Cuts IFE Deployment Time in Half
September 18, 2020  | Written by Paul Sillers
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APEX Media spoke to Axinom’s CCO Stefanie Schuster to learn about the company’s new modular, customizable, future-proof platform that allows airlines to make the latest content available to passengers 50% faster. Axinom has launched a content management solution to address airlines’ need for greater flexibility, adaptability and scalability in their in-flight entertainment (IFE) supply chains. […]

APEX Weekly Wrap: Fiji Airways’ Travel Ready Program
 | Written by Stephanie Taylor
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In this week’s episode of The Weekly Wrap, APEX Media welcomes special guest Shaenaz Voss, executive general manager, Customer Corporate Affairs at Fiji Airways. APEX member Fiji Airways has taken 1,300 actions to prepare for the reopening of international travel as part of its Travel Ready initiative, including the introduction of customer wellness champions on […]

Facial Recognition Tech That Works With Masks
 | Written by Paul Sillers
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Face recognition algorithms work by measuring a face’s features – their size and distance from one another, for example – then comparing these measurements to those from a photo stored in a passenger’s ePassport or travel document. As this technology began gaining traction at airports, COVID-19 threw a wrench in the works, making masks mandatory […]