technology

  • Airbus Fly Your Ideas Challenges

    Airbus Fly Your Ideas Challenges

    Airbus have identified 6 key challenges for the 2019 edition of Fly Your Ideas: Mixed Reality, Data Services, Cyber Security, Electrification, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. Each with a specific question for student teams to address with their idea. Find out more about the challenges: https://www.airbus-fyi.com/the-competition/

  • Inside GE’s Turkey Technology Center

    Inside GE’s Turkey Technology Center

    Take a tour of GE’s Turkey Technology Center where a diverse European team of engineers and scientists are creating digitally enabled next-generation Aviation technologies powered with additive.

  • Microsoft Hololens for Travel Retailers

    Microsoft Hololens for Travel Retailers

    What if a travel agency could provide a new engaging experience thanks to the Microsoft Hololens mixed reality headset. Customers could have a glimpse of their future destinations by being transported there thanks to inspiring videos, ambient sounds, lights and holograms. This prototype developed by Amadeus Innovation & Research team is leveraging the Amadeus TravelCast…

  • SITA – Transforming Air Travel Through Technology

    SITA – Transforming Air Travel Through Technology

    SITA touches every aspect of the air transport industry, providing the technology that powers the industry for airlines, at airports and on aircraft. Nearly every airline and airport in the world does business with SITA and its border management solutions are used by more than 30 governments. Our technology is there every step of the…

  • SITA – Transforming Air Transport Through Technology

    SITA – Transforming Air Transport Through Technology

    SITA touches every aspect of the air transport industry, providing the technology that powers the industry for airlines, at airports and on aircraft. Nearly every airline and airport in the world does business with SITA and its border management solutions are used by more than 30 governments. Our technology is there every step of the…

  • The Customer-Centric Airport

    The Customer-Centric Airport

    Airlines and Airports are entering into an age of technological innovation and advancement. They are transforming the airport experience by putting the customer experience as the priority and removing all unnecessary and inconvenient processes to resolve travelers’ frustrations and improve airports’ operating efficiency.

  • The future of identity management

    The future of identity management

    One of SITA’s more recent initiatives to ease the airport journey while improving security, is single token travel. Using blockchain technology, passengers could create a verifiable ‘token’ on their mobile phone containing biometric and other personal data that can be used anywhere they travel. http://www.sita.aero/solutions-and-services/solutions/sita-smart-path

  • Virtual Reality cabin design at Airbus

    Virtual Reality cabin design at Airbus

    The Airbus Innovation Centre in Hamburg has developed 3D technology to apply virtual reality to cabin design. Airbus has taken the best ideas from the gaming industry, film, and its own software engineers to transform interior cabin design creation.

  • Meeting the expectations of today’s connected passengers

    Meeting the expectations of today’s connected passengers

    This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. On-demand, real-time, end-to-end Expectations of airline passengers are not only shaped by how well an airline performs versus its direct competitors. They are also fuelled by standards set by experiences that consumers have in other industries, as innovative products and services in one industry raise the…

  • Boeing’s next-gen aircraft cabin

    Boeing’s next-gen aircraft cabin

    This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com”. With mood lighting now being a standard feature on new aircraft deliveries, several airlines have also started to retrofit LED lighting into their older cabins. Furthermore, besides taking a ‘generic’ approach towards mood lighting – that is, recreating sunset on evening flights and sunrise in the…

  • TOP 10 Future Aircraft

    TOP 10 Future Aircraft

    We took a look into what is being developed for future: 10. PAK TA 9. RQ 180 8. Venus Aircraft 7. Aeromobil 3.0 6. Jaxa Hypsersonic Plane 5. Lockheed Martin N+2 4. Spike S512 3. Aerion AS2 2. SR-72 1. Skylon Spaceplane

  • TUI lets passengers order food, beverages and duty free items via their own devices

    TUI lets passengers order food, beverages and duty free items via their own devices

    This article is re-published with kind permission of “www.airlinetrends.com” Earlier this year we reported on MI Airline’s AirFi box – a portable, battery-powered and self-scaling wireless local network. The AirFi solution is based around a small box which can be stowed in a luggage locker – instead of having to be installed in the aircraft,…