Kansai Airport installs 12 e-gates to check boarding passes
E-gates at international departures
Aspire Lounges replace printed material with PressReader
Passengers can see material from 120 countries
Last ever Qantas 747 flight
Qantas flew the 747 for almost 50 years
Air Tanzania selects Panasonic for inflight connectivity on its Airbus A220s
Two of its A220s have Panasonic’s eX1 IFE solution
Air France gets its tenth and last Boeing 787-9
Air France received its first 787 in December 2016
Qatar Airways new direct flight to Cebu
First Qatar Airways flight to Cebu for 8 years
BA retires 747 fleet, a sad day for a fabulous aircraft
31 remaining 747 aircraft won't fly any more BA passengers
American Airlines introduces touchless check-in and new inflight Wi-Fi portal
Touchless check-in and bag drop to help against COVID-19
Tampa Airport deploys new technolgies to keep facilities clean
Robot software cleans a mile of handrails a minute
Air New Zealand opens refurbished Auckland Domestic Lounge
Updated lounge offers 375 seats, 10% more than before
Malaysia Airlines gives free Hygiene Kit to all passengers
Kits have face mask, hand sanitiser, sanitary wipes
Heathrow uses cleaning robots and other anti-viral measures
Robots use UV rays to kill viruses and bacteria at night
Middle East Airlines selects Panasonic Avionics for A321 family IFEC
Also receives first of 9 A321neo
China’s first aircraft with high-speed IFEC takes off
Qingdao Airlines A320 first to use the Ka band satcom based IFEC
Melbourne Airport’s new hygiene and wellbeing measures
Includes 420 hand sanitiser units
oneworld launches customer information portal about health and well-being
Information on measures on the ground and inflight
Norwegian airports to roll out contactless check-in and bagdrop
Using contactless to limit impact of COVID-19
British Airways reopens some Heathrow T5 lounges
Opens Galleries First, Galleries South Club and Arrivals lounges at Heathrow, Terminal 5
Finnair’s “ Clean Kit ”, onboard service changes and Helsinki lounge reopens
The kit contains hand sanitiser and surface wipes
COVID-19 test for passengers at Frankfurt and Munich airports
59€ incl. VAT – to receive results within 6-8 hours
