Yolcu Deneyimi
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Qantas turns catering trolleys into onboard iPad ‘sync & charge’ carts
This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. Hot on the heels of the announcement that Qantas has started the rollout of its new Q-Streaming wireless inflight entertainment service comes an interesting look behind the scenes. Qantas’ Q-Streaming service will see every seat on Qantas’ B767 aircrafts get an iPad that provides passengers with access to…
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TAM’s new First Class recreates a living room up in the air
This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. TAM, the ambitious flag carrier of Brazil which earlier this year merged with LAN from Chile to create a Latin American airline giant, has just unveiled new cabin interiors – designed by Priestmangoode – to mark its arrival on the world stage. Says Priestmangoode Director Luke Hawes:…
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Qantas updates Boeing 767 fleet with iPad-friendly seats
This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. Airlines around the world are responding to the explosion in passenger use of smartphones, notebooks, tablets and e-readers – plus the increasing expectation that these devices can be connected inflight – by incorporating power sockets and USB ports in aircraft seats (including Economy) and introducing onboard…
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Virgin America goes social and personal with new IFE system
This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. Virgin America, probably the most tech-savvy airline in the industry, plans to revolutionise its approach to customer service. Next year the airline will further upgrade its already advanced RED IFE system with a service built on Salesforce.com’s Chatter social messaging tool. This will allow passengers to…
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Japan Airlines goes private with ‘Sky Suites’ in Business Class
This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. Declared bankrupt in 2010 after a decade of losses, Japan Airlines (JAL) last week returned to the Tokyo stock exchange in a USD 8.5 billion IPO that followed a government-backed restructuring under which the airline shed more than a third of its jobs, persuaded its unionised pilots and…
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THY’nin Yeni İç Hatlar CIP Salonu Açıldı
TAV tarafından işletilen, Türk Hava Yolları’nın (THY) Atatürk Havalimanı’ndaki yeni iç hatlar özel yolcu salonu hizmete girdi. Büyütülen salon, ayrı güvenlik noktaları ve sayısı artırılan uçağa biniş kapıları ile yolcularına daha hızlı hizmet verecek. İstanbul Atatürk Havalimanı’ndan business class uçan veya özel yolcu programında Elite Plus veya Elite karta sahip yolcuların yararlandıkları CIP salonu yenilenerek…
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Mobil Cihazlar, Uçuş Deneyimini Kökten Değiştiriyor
Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Barnes and Noble Nook, Blackberry Playbook ve Amazon Kindle Fire derken, yazılım devi Microsoft da, 26 Ekim’de piyasaya sunacağı Surface adlı tablet bilgisayarıyla mobil cihaz dünyasına iddialı bir adım atmaya hazırlanıyor. Yüksek kaliteli ses ve görüntü özelliğinin yanı sıra internete bağlanma ve film, müzik, oyun gibi eğlence seçeneklerini bünyesinde barındırması sebebiyle tablet pc’ler, kullanıcı deneyimini çok…
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How iPads are changing the way plane tray tables are designed
This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. By Louise Driscoll, Terminal U Let’s face it, economy class was never built for comfort. But the experience can often fall short of what we expect at the most basic level. Take the flimsy tray table, for example, which is more ‘tray’ than table. It’s capable of…
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Havayolu 101, THY Uçağından Bildiriyor
Havayolu 101, Türk Hava Yolları (THY) uçağındaki internet bağlantısını yerinde test ediyor. Size bu satırları, THY’nin İstanbul – New York uçağının neredeyse tamamen dolu olan Economy Class bölümünden yazıyoruz. Trakya üzerindeyiz ve birazdan Türkiye – Bulgaristan sınırına varmış olacağız. 2006 yılından günümüze, altı sene gibi kısa bir süre içerisinde açmış olduğu yaklaşık 100 yeni hatla, uçuş…
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Singapore Airlines’tan Uçuş Esnası Eğlence Sistemine Büyük Yatırım
Singapore Airlines, Airbus ve Boeing’ten vermiş olduğu 40’tan fazla yeni uçak siparişi için, uçuş esnası eğlence sistemine büyük bir yatırım yapma hazırlığı içerisinde. Panasonic Avionics tarafından sağlanacak ve liste fiyatlarında göre yaklaşık 400 milyon USD tutarında olacak sistemler, şirketin filosuna önümüzdeki yıllarda katılması planlanan 20 adet Airbus A350, 15 adet Airbus A330-300 ve 8 adet…
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Long-haul low-cost carrier AirAsia X to offer kids-free ‘Quiet Zone’ onboard
This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. Two recent surveys conducted by TripAdvisor found that 40 percent of U.S. travellers said they would pay extra to sit in a designated quiet section of the plane, while nearly 80 percent of Britons agreed there should be child-free zones on board, and a third of…
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Sign of the times: Amenity kits double as iPad case
This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. To prevent frequent flyers from accumulating heaps of identical amenity bags, many airlines change their amenity kit designs on a regular basis, while other carriers work together with amenity kit suppliers to design bags that for example can be re-used as a pencil case or travel…