Turkish Airlines introduced a new Comfort Class to its offerings of economy, business and first class. The new service level, to be placed between the economy and business cabins, will offer fixed-shell seats with a 45-in. pitch and 19.3-in.width .The seats will include personal display screens with 10.6-in. armrest screens to enable passengers to use personal [...]

Passengers on BA’s all-business ‘Club World London City’ service from London City to New York JFK can use their mobile device to send and receive text messages and emails in-flight and access the Internet. The in-flight connectivity service is provided by OnAir. Adding a new feature to the service, BA has become the launch customer [...]

Cathay Pacific Airways and Panasonic Avionics have signed a memorandum of understanding for the provision of broadband connectivity on all Cathay Pacific and Dragonair passenger aircraft. While final terms are still being negotiated, the memorandum of understanding allows the parties to begin developing the plan to provide connectivity for passengers together with promotional, sponsorship and [...]

TIGER Airways would consider introducing a “standing-only” option for passengers in a bid to lower airfares. The low-cost carrier said it could follow in the footsteps of UK budget airline Ryanair and introduce “vertical seating”. “We continue to look at ways of making our operation more efficient so we can offer even lower fares than we [...]

The three Chinese airline giants China Southern Airlines , Air China and China Eastern Airlines have inked agreements on the development of in-flight communication software with mobile operators. These have gone forward to government departments for approval, the airline giants noted at a forum held by China Air Transport Association (CATA) on Wednesday. Assuming the [...]

Examiner.com reports that JetBlue Airways will add buy-on-board snack boxes to their existing free snack service. The five snackboxes, which are similar to United’s existing snackbox product, will be available on all A320 operated flights over 3 hours 45 minutes in duration. The boxes will sell for $6 each, and include one selection that is completely kosher. Each [...]

Recently Aeroflot, Russia’s flag carrier, banned alcohol on some of its longer flights to see if it would decrease in flight disturbances. Not to surprisingly, they did see a decrease. The ban was only for passengers in  economy seats (maybe people with more money can hold their booze better?). Since the change, Aeroflot has seen a [...]

This week, US Airways becomes the latest major airline to offer Internet service on a sizable number of planes, a bid to stay competitive in the battle for business travelers. The Tempe-based airline is finishing the installation of in-flight Wi-Fi on 51 jets. The Gogo service, which costs between $4.95 and $12.95 depending on flight [...]

Air New Zealand will be enabling its new Boeing 777-300 aircraft with mobile phone and data capability, with the first aircraft due for delivery in November this year. “Passengers will also be requested to keep their phones on ‘silent’ mode.” The introduction of the new service will enable Air New Zealand’s customers to use their [...]

KLM’s economy passengers on selected intercontinental flights can opt for paid-for a la carte meals instead of the usual free meal service, with choices including Italian and Japanese dishes. The pilot project is running till the end of August on routes from Amsterdam to Bangkok and Taipei, Dubai, Cape Town, Singapore and Denpasar. Customers can [...]

Bluebox Avionics, a company that offers in-flight entertainment products to airlines, said this week that it will start delivering its service on Apple’s iPad in July. Dubbed Bluebox Ai, the company’s in-flight entertainment will run on iPads given to travelers to use while on the plane. Through iPads with Bluebox Ai, passengers can watch “first-run” movies, [...]

Read this very interesting guest post written by Toms Purgailis on SimplyFlying.com : A big part of travelers bring their laptops and smart-phones with them on-board for ground activities but use airline’s provided in-flight entertainment system (IFE) to kill the time during flight. No-brainer that such a system is not the most effective as hundreds [...]