In this week's The Up Front Update: big news for little planes. Regional aircraft startup Maeve gets serious with SkyWest and Delta, ATR and JSX talk premium, there's better IFC on DHC, and much more. Plus: we look into Air Tahiti Nui's premium "upgrade". theupfront.media/update-17-ma...

Air Côte d’Ivoire's brand new A330neo isn't just a massive step-change for the airline. It's also a new standard for widebody cabins across the industry. Essentially: if an airline with two A330neos can do this, how does your cabin, seat and product measure up? theupfront.media/air-cote-div...

In the latest edition of The Up Front Update: Air Canada to send its first A321XLR to Mallorca, Lufthansa's Group Function Boards, "schedule slip" on the 777X, Delta sees premium revenue hit 50%, and there's more from the FAA this week too… theupfront.media/update-16-ai...

We’re in Vienna this week at the RedCabin Business Jet and VIP Interior summit in lovely Vienna, talking premium cabins, materials, design and aesthetics. Lots of fascinating discussions about where that line is between premium and luxury within the cabin.

Air Côte d'Ivoire's A330neo looks great in first, business, and economy — but in premium economy, two of the three rows are blocked off by regulators. Seat certification problems are a common theme across aviation, but this is an unusual situation. Here's why: theupfront.media/air-cote-div...

Another busy week at The Up Front Towers — and on the road in Toulouse — as we keep track of what's going on that affects the passenger experience world (and you, the traveller) with our weekly roundup, The Up Front Update: theupfront.media/update-15-ry...

It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL. Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is. www.aena.es/en/press/sta...

A balmy 30° in Toulouse this afternoon, where we are heading to the launch of Air Côte d’Ivoire’s first Airbus A330neo. (Full disclosure, as their guest.) There’s always something about catching that first glimpse of a plane you’re about to visit from that Blagnac roundabout with the good view…

Lots of activity around Lufthansa's 787s this week — so we went straight to the airline (and a few other sources) for updates on the whole Allegris/FICE programme, some of which certainly raised my eyebrows. Here's what we learned: theupfront.media/pro-readout-...

Welcome aboard Japan Airlines flight JL6 with service to New York JFK. I’m seated in seat 54K today, on the window. This is my 4th flight on the JAL A350-1000 in the last 5 months. #Avgeek

Some weeks, I write our weekly news and analysis roundup — The Up Front Update — and it makes it out on Friday. Some weeks, there's a Friday news dump like Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy filing, and the big news changes. Join us for what that means, and much more: theupfront.media/the-up-front...

Come for my deep-dive into Korean's new lounges at Seoul ICN in the terminal's Incheon 4.0 expansion. Stay for the thoughtful questions about brand distinctiveness, designing spaces for airlines, and the use of cultural heritage in aesthetics in the context of KPop Demon Hunters.

OUT NOW: With new lounges at Seoul Incheon, Korean Air continues moving upmarket, replacing very meh lounges with new luxurious spaces. But is the airline at risk of losing its distinctiveness? Whither the Morning Calm and the rest of KE's aesthetic equity? theupfront.media/korean-air-t...

Catching up on our YouTube watch-laters, and really impressed by the cabin interiors video of Air Côte d'Ivoire's forthcoming A330neo — including "La First", their Thompson Vantage studio class product at the front of the plane. Really smart modern product use. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Sg...

Start your week with The Up Front Update, diving into Swiss' frankly bizarre First Grand Suite (which seems to be just the curtain between business and first class?), plus why Eurowings wants to charge you more than €500 to upgrade from Eurobusiness to a recliner: theupfront.media/the-up-front...

Ohaiyou gozaimasu, konnichiwa or konbanwa — wherever and whenever you are, it's Contact Decimal time. This time around you join us in Tokyo for our hand-picked mix of air traffic control and relaxing ambient music: theupfront.media/listen-now-c...

Ohaiyou gozaimasu, konnichiwa or konbanwa — wherever and whenever you are, it's Contact Decimal time. This time around you join us in Tokyo for our hand-picked mix of air traffic control and relaxing ambient music: theupfront.media/listen-now-c...

Congratulations to Swiss, which: "is setting new benchmarks in First Class air travel" "is further expanding its First Class offering" "combines two First Class suites into a single spacious and self-contained space" it's a curtain the one in the aisle, separating first from business a CURTAIN

Qantas hit with record fine for illegal layoffs during pandemic

Ten years ago next week, we flew on this absolute beauty, Lufthansa's "Tante Ju" 1936 trimotor Junkers Ju 52. She was permanently grounded in 2018 — on her way for display in Frankfurt — so join us onboard for the video, photos and a real sense of aviation history. theupfront.media/video-flying...

Join us for this week's The Up Front Update: one low-cost carrier struggles, another expands, and a third becomes a frequent flyer sweet spot — while two airlines run at full anime-blur speed in surprisingly inflight entertainment directions. theupfront.media/the-up-front... #PaxEx #aviation

Ten years ago next week, we flew on this absolute beauty, Lufthansa's "Tante Ju" 1936 trimotor Junkers Ju 52. She was permanently grounded in 2018 — on her way for display in Frankfurt — so join us onboard for the video, photos and a real sense of aviation history. theupfront.media/video-flying...

Celebrating 50 articles on @theupfront.media: a glorious retrospective of what it was like to fly @lufthansa.bsky.social's amazing — but now-grounded — Junkers Ju 52 over Hamburg. Come for the story and dozens of photos, stay for the thrum of Tante Ju's engines! theupfront.media/video-flying...

The Up Front Update is in your inbox now if you're subscribed — theupfront.media/subscribe — and what a fascinating week in aviation it's been! From a fascinating widebody report to IndiGo's Heathrow plans and Air Côte d'Ivoire's curious first class: theupfront.media/the-up-front...

Two questions: is it time for the EU, and UK airports, to start thinking seriously about juxtaposed border controls for EU-bound travellers? And why is the world's slowest burger joint Le Roi du Burger at the UK-bound Channel Tunnel LeShuttle car train in Calais? theupfront.media/review-rebra...

Two questions: is it time for the EU, and UK airports, to start thinking seriously about juxtaposed border controls for EU-bound travellers? And why is the world's slowest burger joint Le Roi du Burger at the UK-bound Channel Tunnel LeShuttle car train in Calais? theupfront.media/review-rebra...

Good job, Ethiopia! 👏👏 «Ethiopia has rejected an effort by Moscow to avoid international aviation sanctions — imposed in retaliation for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine — by leasing aircraft from Ethiopian Airlines.»

News this morning that Air France-KLM is the latest airline/group to have exposed customer data via a third-party supplier platform penetration. Sounds suspiciously similar to the ongoing series of attacks: here's the why and the how: theupfront.media/cyberattack-...

If you're just starting your week — or even if you're well into yours — check out The Up Front Update: • why IAG's 737 MAXes are heading for Vueling • duelling concepts for Heathrow's third runway & new terminals • the latest on Allegris/Swiss Senses • and more… theupfront.media/the-up-front...

Our latest Readout for our Pro-level subscribers dives into what we've learned this week about Lufthansa — and Swiss, and Austrian — ongoing woes with aircraft, seats, certification and US demand: theupfront.media/pro-readout-... #aviation #avgeek #PaxEx

Is the MAEVE Jet the future of the 76–100-seat aircraft market? With support from MHI RJ (which took over Bombardier's CRJ) and a deal with Pratt & Whitney for the critical open-rotor engine — and a very familiar-feeling cabin — the credibility is there: theupfront.media/maeve-pivots...

Our latest Readout for our Pro-level subscribers dives into what we've learned this week about Lufthansa — and Swiss, and Austrian — ongoing woes with aircraft, seats, certification and US demand: theupfront.media/pro-readout-... #aviation #avgeek #PaxEx

This week in The Up Front Update… It's so long to Abu Dhabi for Wizz Air, but AirAsia's Tony Fernandes still plans a Middle East narrowbody hub to replace his AirAsia X dreams. And much more, including Aegean's curiously jetBlue-scented A321XLRs… theupfront.media/the-up-front...

This week in The Up Front Update… It's so long to Abu Dhabi for Wizz Air, but AirAsia's Tony Fernandes still plans a Middle East narrowbody hub to replace his AirAsia X dreams. And much more, including Aegean's curiously jetBlue-scented A321XLRs… theupfront.media/the-up-front...

Why are airports and terminals shaped the way they are? What happened to them all looking like toastracks? And what are the design considerations when creating a new terminal? We sat down with Gensler, who create them, for an in-depth interview. theupfront.media/from-banjo-t...

Why are airports and terminals shaped the way they are? What happened to them all looking like toastracks? And what are the design considerations when creating a new terminal? We sat down with Gensler, who create them, for an in-depth interview. theupfront.media/from-banjo-t...

NEW: This week's The Up Front Update: 🏢 Heathrow's knocking down a terminal ✈️ Airbus goes big on airplane diplomacy — and has a new CEO 🦹 Details from Qantas' cyber breach, plus why BA locked crew out 🛠️ Delta's pulling engines off new A321neos Plus much more: theupfront.media/the-up-front...

Your morning read (if it's your morning): diving deep into Virgin Atlantic's massive pivot to high-business, high-premium airplanes, including: • all the plans, plus timings • what the big Retreat Suite expansion means • 30 years of seat history and more… theupfront.media/virgin-atlan...

Our latest: looking forward to Virgin Atlantic's massive premium push with new seats for the 787 and a high-J A330neo layout… plus back nearly 30 years to the J2000 sloping sleeper — and what it means for the industry, and the passenger. theupfront.media/virgin-atlan...

Delta Q2: - operating revenue $16.6B - operating income $2.1B - earnings per share $3.27 Ed Bastian: “…we are restoring financial guidance with an expectation for earnings per share of $5.25 to $6.25 and free cash flow of $3 to $4 billion, consistent with our long-term free cash flow targets.”

Big news from Airbus: Christian Scherer to retire at the end of this year, to be replaced by Lars Wagner, currently CEO of MTU Aero Engines. That's quite the outside candidate there.

It's been a VERY busy week in #aviation, from cyberattacks to big why-wasn't-this-at-Le-Bourget airplane orders, potential strikes at Airbus in the UK (who needs airplane wings?), a new European "personal item" bag standard size, and autonomous MRO robots: theupfront.media/the-up-front... #PaxEx

Big order for small planes by Air Algérie: 16 ATR 72-600s, plus a full-flight sim, for delivery between 2026-28. www.atr-aircraft.com/presspost/ai...

With confirmed cyber incidents at Hawaiian, WestJet and now Qantas, we've made our latest aviation podcast episode FREE to listen to. In it, we discuss the how, why and who of these attacks. And what supply chain companies need to know about 'lateral attacks' #aviation #cybersecurity

Always a pleasure to talk to Tim at Reuters about seats, and pleased that it resulted in this excellent high-level introduction to some of the problems facing airlines around seats. Look at those those Air New Zealand Visa seats being assembled at Cwmbran! www.reuters.com/business/aer...

🚨 Upcoming Airbus China order we discussed pre-#PAS25 klaxon: it's looking like the trip is on, based on this glad-handing. bsky.app/profile/vond...

There's a real danger that smaller firms assume they're not a juicy attack vector for cyber crime. Reality is their systems might be the way into a larger company's systems. We talked a fair bit on this episode about that, and concrete things senior leaders in supply chain firms can do.

With confirmed cyber incidents at Hawaiian, WestJet and now Qantas, we've made our latest aviation podcast episode FREE to listen to. In it, we discuss the how, why and who of these attacks. And what supply chain companies need to know about 'lateral attacks' #aviation #cybersecurity

A big 45 + 10 Embraer E195-E2 order from SAS today — really enables long-and-thin European flying, and is, the airline says "ideally suited to complement SAS’ existing fleet and route structure, allowing for more frequencies, better network flexibility, and lower trip costs".