Articles tagged “airbus”

Certain routes just demand more crowded seating to be viable, and not every passenger market seems to mind as much, but that's still a lot of people on a single plane.

It’s good to be the king — or at least the CEO.

We need more tomorrow thinking like this if the passenger experience is really going to improve in the coming decades. But no one wants to build a new aircraft around a CIGAR just now.

Windowless Planes? Don't make us giggle.

Given that the Finns have declared Internet access a basic human right, we have to wonder whether this new Finnair in-flight Wi-Fi will be free. The airline would not comment, but fingers crossed.

It’s the old story: Do you want it quickly or do you want it to be special?

If Airbus meets production projections, this is aircraft is set up to give Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner a run for its money.

Bad ideas aren’t all bad. Sometimes they lead to better solutions.

The war between the feathered birds and the metal birds has raged on from the beginning of aviation, with casualties on both sides. Both birds make a lot of noise, but neither is about to give up its claim on the skies.

We're going to need another class of airline to define Qatar. It's untraditional. It doesn't conform to the luxury mold. A new Upscale-Gulf-All Business-Economy Carrier for the A380 skies? It's a new model--one we can't quite put a label on yet, but suspect will do very well.