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Coming up with fresh ideas in aviation takes guts. Sometimes your guts are cut out, and handed back to you on a nicely compartmentalized in-flight meal tray. But there's no stopping some people.

This is the natural next step for Virgin America, ViaSat, and Netflix and the perfect complement to JetBlue's Amazon Prime offering.

The thinking behind this is that tap-tap and connect is easier for passengers—and more intuitive to mobile-device users—than loading a portal and entering information to connect through a browser. There's something to that. The beacon ‘reminders’ to use the connection, however, will have to be designed carefully so they don’t annoy.

Vararadi seems to follow Baldanza’s example for Ultra-Low Cost Carrier success with Spirit to the letter, creating new flyers with little more than low fares and a smile.

With Surprise and Delight, passengers now have something to look forward to.

These are the aviation trends we were talking about this week.

Boeing has its own production schedule to meet and American’s issues with seat-manufacturer Zodiac are not really Boeing’s problem.

While program delays are problematic, and this situation has been ongoing, the contract dispute between American Airlines and Zodiac Aerospace now moves to the courts. A settlement is always a possibility.

Vueling has pushed the technology envelope in the airline industry, benefiting not only its European customers but airline passengers around the world. That it's not done innovating yet is a very exciting thing for tomorrow's passenger experience.

We write often about the importance of branding in aviation, the critical need to move away from selling air-service as a commodity or a utility, but we’ve never heard anyone put it as eloquently or as practically as Mr. Dedekoylu has, nor seen any airline 'get it' quite like this bold low-cost carrier has.