The co-located APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9 to 11 June 2026, will feature an outstanding exhibition of established global industry providers and a major showcase of pioneering startups. The exhibition will provide a concentrated showcase of the latest products, services and solutions to help redefine the end-to-end passenger experience, optimise operational efficiency and sustainability efforts, and create new commercial endeavours both on the ground and up in the air. Discover the solutions you can expect to see on the exhibition floor in our full preview article.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Sponsors
TravelX (Platinum Sponsor and Exhibitor)
TravelX – a Platinum Sponsor and Exhibitor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing – is a travel technology company focused on post-booking revenue optimisation for airlines. Its platform helps carriers unlock incremental revenue by giving passengers more flexibility after booking through solutions such as flight swaps, seat buybacks, and overbooking optimisation. TravelX integrates directly with airline systems to create a seamless customer experience while helping revenue management teams maximise yield and improve operational efficiency.
“APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing brings together many of the industry leaders shaping the future of airline retailing and customer experience, making it a natural fit for TravelX,” says Martin Restrepo, Director of Business Development, TravelX. “Our goal is to continue strengthening our presence in the European market, showcase the value airlines are achieving with our platform, and engage with forward-thinking carriers exploring new post-booking revenue opportunities.”
As well as being Platinum Sponsor, TravelX is also exhibiting at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing, where attendees can expect hands-on discussions around how airlines can generate significant incremental revenue from the post-booking journey while improving passenger flexibility and satisfaction. “We’ll be showcasing our AI-driven optimisation capabilities, dynamic offer generation, and the strong commercial results our airline partners are achieving,” Restrepo explains. “We’re especially excited to highlight how advanced machine learning and personalisation are enabling airlines to move from reactive to proactive post-booking revenue management.”
Attendees will hear more in the APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing Conference, with Restrepo delivering a joint presentation alongside Volaris titled ‘Turning Flexibility into Profit: Volaris & TravelX’s Post-Booking Playbook’. “The session will focus on how airlines can transform passenger flexibility into a meaningful revenue opportunity,” Restrepo shares. “Together with Volaris, we will share practical insights on how post-booking solutions can help recover low-yield inventory, improve load optimisation, and create a better customer experience. We’ll also discuss the operational and commercial lessons learned from scaling these initiatives successfully.”
TravelX continues to expand globally, working with leading airlines across multiple regions. Recently, it has been strengthening its overbooking optimisation capabilities, expanding integrations across different airline technology environments, and enhancing its personalisation and machine learning models to drive even stronger commercial outcomes for our partners.
“FTE events bring together some of the most innovative minds in aviation, creating a unique environment for collaboration and idea-sharing,” says Restrepo. “We value the opportunity to engage directly with airline executives, technology leaders, and partners who are driving transformation across the industry. This year, we’re especially excited about the strong focus on ancillary innovation, personalisation, and modern airline retailing.”
TravelX encourages attendees to visit its booth, attend the session with Volaris, and connect with its team throughout the event to discuss how post-booking optimisation can unlock new revenue opportunities. “We’re looking forward to meeting industry peers, exchanging ideas, and exploring new partnerships that can help shape the future of airline retailing,” Restrepo adds.
Hear more from TravelX at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Martin Restrepo, Director of Business Development, TravelX, will deliver a joint presentation alongside Eduardo Morales, Director of Revenue Management and Pricing, Volaris, titled ‘Turning Flexibility into Profit: Volaris & TravelX’s Post-Booking Playbook’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Airport Dimensions (Gold Sponsor)
For over two decades, Airport Dimensions – a Gold Sponsor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing – has led passenger-first experiences, evolving how travellers spend their time and how airports unlock value – benefiting from guaranteed traffic and insight from sister company, Priority Pass.
Airport Dimensions’ unrivalled level of insight and a breadth of expertise across lounges, sleep, entertainment, and digital, means it has built a diverse portfolio that creates choice and enjoyment for passengers, amidst ever-evolving expectations.
Airport Dimensions’ deep understanding of airports and a commitment to true partnership help transform spaces, grow non-aeronautical revenue, and deliver a greater passenger experience.
Hear more from Airport Dimensions at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Jeff Livney, VP for Business Development – Digital Products, Airport Dimensions, is participating in a session focused on ‘Creative strategies to boost airport commercial performance while creating memorable customer experiences’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Atrius (Gold Sponsor)
Atrius – a Gold Sponsor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing – is a cloud platform and applications brand as part of the Acuity Intelligent Spaces segment of Acuity. Atrius believes in harnessing the value of data within a space by making data accessible, usable, and actionable. “Our data platform and industry-leading cloud applications for building performance and spatial intelligence maximise occupant experiences and transform spaces for smarter, safer, and greener outcomes,” explains Sylvie Ladame, Director, EMEA & APAC, Atrius, Acuity Inc. “Atrius products help airports and airlines digitise the physical world to improve the passenger journey, optimise operations, and drive revenue. Through a suite of SaaS solutions like Atrius Wayfinder and Atrius Locator, we deliver real-time location intelligence, intuitive wayfinding, and actionable insights.”
For the air transport ecosystem, Atrius integrates seamlessly into existing infrastructure, including digital signage, mobile apps, kiosks, and third-party systems. “Our Venue Management System (VMS) enables operators to easily update spatial data, helping maintain accuracy and consistency across all touchpoints, from airline apps to terminal directories to partner channels like Apple Maps,” says Ladame.
Atrius Wayfinder, the company’s indoor mapping solution powered by blue dot technology, delivers real-time, personalised navigation. “Imagine step-by-step directions that can be adjusted to factor in terminal renovations or highlight nearby concessions or lounges without having to wander aimlessly,” says Ladame. “Our Atrius Wayfinder solution makes this and more possible and is all able to be integrated into existing digital channels like signage, websites, mobile phones, and kiosks, making travel more intuitive, accessible, and stress-free.”
Atrius emphasises how spatial data can reduce bottlenecks, minimise missed connections, and provide dynamic recommendations and time-to-gate insights. “What makes Atrius products unique is our ability to scale across systems and stakeholders,” Ladame adds. “We create a unified layer of intelligence that brings buildings, people, and services into sync, helping airports improve both operations and the traveller experience.”
Hear more from Atrius at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Sylvie Ladame, Director, EMEA & APAC, Atrius, Acuity Inc, is participating in a session focused on ‘Creative strategies to boost airport commercial performance while creating memorable customer experiences’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>FACEPHI (Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor)
FACEPHI – a Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing – delivers digital identity solutions that seamlessly integrate security, fraud prevention, and compliance within an intelligent ecosystem. Leveraging a deep background in high-assurance identity for the banking industry, FACEPHI contributes to the aviation industry by issuing and presenting ‘immigration-grade’ Digital Identities such as DTC Type 1 and derived ePassport Verifiable Credentials. “For carriers, this moves Identity Verification to the digital storefront,” explains Mike Luparelli Mathieu, Product Innovation Director, FACEPHI. “Automating the verification of passenger admissibility remotely or before boarding creates massive operational efficiencies against strict destination entry requirements. By combining biometrics with decentralised credentials, we provide strong authentication at airport touchpoints, replacing traditional friction with true, secure automation.”
Ancillary and retailing services represent a major revenue stream and a vital driver of operational results for carriers, particularly low-cost carriers, contributing up to 60% of revenue. “However, repetitive form-fills and legacy payment authentication flows cause massive cart abandonment from booking to inflight,” says Luparelli Mathieu. “FACEPHI is sponsoring APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing to show commercial leaders how a decentralised Digital Identity framework acts as well as an EBITDA stabilisation tool. By replacing checkout friction with instant Digital Trust, a passenger’s biometric profile becomes a secure, one-click wallet. We are here to engage with decision-makers to prove that a minor lift in ancillary conversion has a disproportionately massive impact on their bottom line.”
As well as being a Gold Sponsor, FACEPHI is also exhibiting at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing. Attendees can expect to see how FACEPHI bridges secure off-airport verification with frictionless on-airport movement through its Ready to Travel and Seamless Travel suites. “Ready to Travel digitalises passenger eligibility and booking from the comfort of home, providing the passenger with their own digital credentials,” Luparelli Mathieu shares. “Those same decentralised credentials then orchestrate a Seamless Travel experience at the airport, replacing siloed, repetitive security stops with continuous biometric movement on the move (at bag drops, security, lounges, and boarding gates). Furthermore, we are thrilled to preview our upcoming innovation phase: Agentic Identity and Payments. We are actively looking for early adopters for PoCs to test this framework, which converges identity, consent, eligibility, and payments into a single, one-motion transaction.”
As first-time participant at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing, FACEPHI’s goal is to firmly position the company as the premier Digital Trust provider for the future of aviation. “We want to move beyond standard IT pitches,” Luparelli Mathieu adds. “We are looking to engage in strategic conversations with forward-thinking executives – the kind of collaborative dialogues that directly shape joint product innovation roadmaps and drive the future of Ready, Seamless, and Agentic travel.”
Hear more from FACEPHI at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Miguel Luparelli, Product Innovation Director, FACEPHI, is participating in a session focused on ‘How Agentic AI is shifting the way the aviation commercial ecosystem operates, and what the future might hold’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Hopper Technology Solutions (Gold Sponsor)
HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions) – a Gold Sponsor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing – is a leading global travel technology platform, using its data advantage and AI-driven travel technology to help partners address modern traveller needs. Working with the world’s leading banks, airlines and travel providers, HTS supercharges its partners’ direct channels with its travel fintech ancillaries, AI, and e-commerce products.
The company has developed several unique fintech ancillaries that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions, including Cancel for Any Reason (CFAR) and Disruption Assistance. Disruption Assistance provides real-time solutions to day-of cancellations and delays, while CFAR enables travellers to cancel their trip and receive a predetermined percentage of their trip cost back, no questions asked.
“This category of ancillaries is key to delighting customers – new data from HTS shows that 84% of travellers say flexibility is an important factor when booking flights, and 60% would pay for ‘Cancel for Any Reason’, rising to 90% among frequent travellers,” says Ella Alkalay Schreiber, GM and SVP of Fintech at HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). “There is real opportunity to enhance the traveller experience, and the demand is not just theoretical.”
HTS has sold millions of fintech products across 180+ countries, and the performance data reflects a product category that has earned genuine consumer trust – with strong satisfaction and an 84% repeat purchase rate, reinforcing that once travellers experience flexibility, they continue to buy it.
“FTE has curated a top-tier audience of airline ancillary professionals,” says Alkalay Schreiber. “HTS appreciates the opportunity to highlight our novel travel fintech ancillaries in front of this relevant and highly-engaged audience.”
Ella Alkalay Schreiber, GM and SVP of Fintech, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), is participating in a conference session at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing titled ‘Airline retailing and ancillary revenue excellence powered by new technology, approaches and collaborations’. HTS just announced several new fintech partnerships in the last couple of months, including leading airlines around the world. These fintech integrations are delivering real value for the company’s partner airlines, and their customers. During her session, Ella will highlight these results and dive deeper into how these fintech products work, delight customers and impact the bottom line.
“APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing offers HTS a valuable opportunity to connect with relevant industry professionals and share our latest announcement and success,” Alkalay Schreiber adds. “The more intimate audience allows for more in-depth and tailored conversations that make an impact.”
Hear more from HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions) at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Ella Alkalay Schreiber, GM & SVP of Fintech, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), is participating in a session focused on ‘Airline retailing and ancillary revenue excellence powered by new technology, approaches and collaborations’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Sherpa (Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor)
Sherpa – a Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing – is a global leader in travel documentation solutions, partnering with airlines, OTAs, and travel platforms to simplify international travel and add ancillary revenue. “Our technology powers real-time entry requirements, visa and ETA applications, and advanced document vetting – during booking, check-in, and pre-departure – making the travel experience more seamless for passengers while unlocking new ancillary revenue streams for our partners,” says Max Tremaine, CEO, Sherpa. “We’re happy to support events that bring together the most innovative voices in travel. Sponsoring APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing aligns with our mission to transform the traveller experience through smarter, more integrated digital solutions. Our goal is to connect with forward-thinking airline and airport leaders to explore new ways of enhancing customer experience, adding revenue, and delivering value to passengers.”
As well as being a Gold Sponsor, Sherpa is also exhibiting at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing, where attendees can connect with its team to explore how Sherpa integrates directly into the traveller journey with embeddable and integrated solutions. “We’ll be sharing real-world examples of how partners including British Airways, LOT Polish Airlines, Gulf Air, and Korean Air are using Sherpa to improve customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and ancillary revenue by surfacing visa requirements and application options at key touchpoints,” says Tremaine. “In fact, LOT Polish saw a 31% higher average booking value when Sherpa’s widget was used – a case study we’ll be showcasing at the event. We’ll also highlight how our AI-powered processing engine enables some of the fastest and most reliable visa turnaround times in the market, helping partners boost approval rates, reduce support volumes, and deliver a smoother experience for travellers.”
Hear more from Sherpa at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Max Tremaine, Co-founder & CEO, Sherpa, is participating in a session titled ‘Where are the biggest opportunities to increase ancillary revenues and how can airlines unlock the untapped potential?’
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Smarter Airports (Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor)
Smarter Airports – a Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing – helps airport operators and their stakeholders turn operational insight into coordinated action. Through its AIRHART Airport Operations Orchestration Platform, Smarter Airports connects data, decisioning and execution across the airport ecosystem, enabling airports, airlines, ground handlers and service partners to work from one shared operational truth.
“Our focus is on helping airports move beyond fragmented systems and manual coordination towards a more connected, predictive and action-oriented operating model,” says Martin Bowman, Chief Strategy Officer, Smarter Airports / Netcompany. “That means enabling better decisions, faster responses and more consistent execution across areas such as airside operations, turnaround coordination, disruption management, passenger flow, baggage readiness, safety processes and operational performance.”
Ultimately, this is about improving the outcomes that matter most to the aviation ecosystem: greater predictability, stronger resilience, more efficient use of airport capacity and a smoother passenger experience.
“We have always viewed Future Travel Experience as one of the places where innovation and practical application come together in aviation,” Bowman shares. “It brings together airports, airlines, technology providers and industry leaders who are not just discussing the future of travel, but actively shaping it. That aligns very closely with our mission. Our focus is on enabling orchestration not simply as a theoretical concept, but as a practical way of delivering operational value across the aviation ecosystem. We see a clear shift taking place in the industry: airports and airlines increasingly need to connect data, decisions, processes and people in real time if they are to improve performance, resilience and customer experience. Our strategic goal at the event is therefore to engage with organisations that are looking to move beyond fragmented operational systems and towards a more integrated, ecosystem-led operating model. We are particularly keen to share what we are learning from our work with leading airports such as Copenhagen, Munich and Heathrow, and to explore how those lessons can help the wider industry.”
As well as being a Gold Sponsor, Smarter Airports is also exhibiting at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing. Attendees can expect to see how AIRHART is being used in live airport environments to connect operational data, decision-making and execution across complex airport ecosystems. “Our aim is to make the concept of airport operations orchestration tangible by showing how it supports real operational use cases, rather than simply talking about platform strategy in abstract terms,” Bowman explains. “One innovation we are particularly excited to highlight is the recent go-live of Airside 360 at Munich Airport. This is Munich’s first major release as part of its vision for Total Airport Orchestration, connecting data, decisions and execution across the airside ecosystem. What makes this especially exciting is the opportunity for key hub stakeholders, including Lufthansa, to leverage the platform as part of a more integrated approach to airport-airline operations. By enabling a shared operational picture and coordinated response across the airport ecosystem, Airside 360 provides a strong example of how orchestration can support better predictability, faster collaboration and improved hub performance.”
What Smarter Airports values most at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing is the opportunity to engage with fellow innovators across the aviation ecosystem. “FTE attracts people who are thinking seriously about how technology, data and AI can improve the operating model of our industry, not just in theory, but in practical, outcome-focused ways,” Bowman adds. “This year, we are particularly excited by the conversations around how airports, airlines and partners can work more intelligently together. The industry has made significant progress in digitisation, but the next step is orchestration: connecting data, decisions and execution across organisational boundaries. For us, APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing is a valuable opportunity to share what we are learning from live AIRHART deployments, listen to the priorities of airports and airlines, and explore how orchestration can help improve resilience, predictability, operational efficiency and the passenger experience.”
Hear more from Smarter Airports at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Martin Bowman, Chief Strategy Officer, Smarter Airports / Netcompany, will deliver a joint presentation alongside Stefan Häberlein, Aviation Operations – Head of Traffic Supervision, Munich Airport, titled ‘The shift to Operational Orchestration: A new operating model for aviation’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Vodafone Travel eSIM (Travel Connectivity Partner and Exhibitor)
Vodafone Travel eSIM – Travel Connectivity Partner and Exhibitor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing – is one of the largest telcos in Europe and Africa, empowering millions with world-class connectivity and digital services. Its cutting-edge networks and technology help shape the future, unlocking potential for people and businesses in a more connected future.
Vodafone Travel eSIM’s purpose is to connect everyone. It aims to build an inclusive, sustainable and trusted digital society where individuals and businesses can thrive. That means enabling people to benefit from the digital society; protecting the planet by reducing its environmental impact; and maintaining trust with customers, employees and suppliers.
Vodafone is driving digital transformation across nine countries in Europe, six in Africa, a further five through joint ventures and associates, and over 40 more through partners. It leads or co-leads on net promoter score in most of its main markets.
Hear more from Vodafone Travel eSIM at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Shanika Trotman, Acting Head of Business Development, Vodafone Travel eSIM, is participating in a session titled ‘Where are the biggest opportunities to increase ancillary revenues and how can airlines unlock the untapped potential?’
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Exhibitors
15below
15below specialises in personalised passenger communications for the travel industry. Using its messaging platform, 15below gives airlines, rail and travel companies the technology and the know-how to stay connected with passengers at every stage of their journey – from booking to arrival and beyond. Whether it’s managing unscheduled disruptions or sending personalised booking confirmations, mobile boarding passes or flight status updates, 15below provides the systems and workflows to send tailored, real-time notifications to millions of travellers. Visit the 15below booth at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing to find out more about how SWISS, JetBlue, Ryanair and 40+ other customers use its system.
22North by Phonon
The vision of 22North is to be “your digital passenger operations platform”. The company enables airlines to convert operational events to revenue opportunities. “Traditional PSSs have limited flexibility; most NDCs being deployed today are new packaging for old frameworks,” says Mr Ujwal Makhija, Founder and CEO, 22North. “Omni-channel experiences and costs are pushing airline CX to its limits; aviation economics are changing with strong revenue opportunities from ancillaries, while grappling with and recovering fast from operational uncertainties. We built an intelligent orchestration layer that unifies three capabilities airlines have traditionally siloed: passenger self-service, ancillary revenue optimisation, and disruption recovery. Passengers today live on WhatsApp and mobile. 22North meets them there, delivering a single, continuous experience across WhatsApp and Progressive Web Applications, with no channel switching.”
- Manage My Booking and Loyalty on Mobile Interfaces: Passengers manage bookings, change flights, select seats, add baggage, redeem loyalty points, and access service recovery – all within one uninterrupted session, leveraging mobile and conversational interfaces
- Ancillary and Revenue Optimisation: Increasing revenue uptick and ATV through contextual ancillary sales (baggage, seats, meals), duty free pre-orders and in-journey upsell, and destination services.
- Disruption Recovery: Recovering passengers, aircraft and crew from disruptions, factoring fleet availability, routing feasibility, ETOPS/EDTO, crew legality, FDTL rules, passenger score and downstream impact.
“The platform outcomes speak directly to that agenda: 35% servicing cost reduction, 2.5x ancillary ATV, 50 bps revenue uplift,” Makhija explains. “APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing is the right place to start those conversations.”
22North’s objective at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing is to demonstrate that passenger operations are no longer siloed; they are about communication, convenience, and commercial value delivered through one unified system. “We are looking to engage with airline CX leaders, operations teams and digital transformation teams,” Makhija shares. “Professionals who are actively evaluating reducing servicing friction, growing ancillary revenue, and streamlining passenger communications.”
Attendees can expect live, use-case-led demonstrations covering the full passenger journey. 22North will be showcasing how passenger journeys can be managed end-to-end – from passenger self-service and ancillary commerce to operational assessment and OCC recovery intelligence. “We will also offer live structured consultations to help airline teams assess their current passenger servicing architecture,” Makhija adds. “We are especially excited to showcase our conversational orchestration layer, where airlines can manage servicing and ancillary journeys without needing passengers to restart the experience on a website or app. Our message in advance is simple: The infrastructure to meet passengers where they already are and convert the touchpoint into a servicing and revenue moment exists today. We look forward to showing you how.”
Hear more from 22North at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Ujwal Makhija, Managing Director & Founder, 22North by Phonon, is participating in the Startup Pitch Session with a pitch titled ‘Turning Passenger Moments into Revenue Outcomes – In Real Time’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>AAT Automation
AAT Automation describes itself as your competent development partner for demanding automation projects. For over 25 years, AAT Automation has been working on innovative solutions for automation requirements in a wide range of areas. Whether conveyor technology, robotic systems or mobile transport systems, it will find a solution to your problem.
AEROMOND
AEROMOND is a cross-operator onboard experience platform designed for connected passenger journeys across aviation and rail. Its AI-driven solution enables passengers to order food, beverages, digital content, upgrades, and services directly from their own device in real time – even offline – with automatic background payment and seamless crew communication. The platform is designed to integrate into existing airline ecosystems through modular APIs and can operate either as a standalone solution or alongside existing onboard systems. By combining passenger convenience with AI-driven demand forecasting and ancillary revenue optimisation, AEROMOND helps operators improve onboard experience, increase onboard sales, reduce food waste, and support more sustainable operations.
“Our main objective is to showcase the fully functional AEROMOND system live to airlines, onboard service providers, and industry innovators for the first time at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing,” explains Sebastian Pruckmair, Founder & CEO, AEROMOND. “We want to demonstrate how connected onboard services can redefine passenger experience while simultaneously unlocking new ancillary revenue opportunities for operators. In addition, we are looking to establish strategic partnerships, discuss pilot opportunities with airlines, and exchange ideas with industry leaders shaping the future of onboard retailing and passenger engagement.”
Attendees can expect a highly interactive live demonstration of the AEROMOND ecosystem, including the passenger app, crew interface, onboard connectivity environment, and real-time ordering experience. “One of the innovations we are particularly excited to showcase is our cross-operator approach – enabling passengers to use one app, one account, and one payment method across different operators,” says Pruckmair. “We are also excited to demonstrate our offline-capable onboard environment, automatic background payment functionality, passenger-to-crew communication features, and the seamless integration of onboard services into a modern connected travel experience.”
AEROMOND would be delighted to meet attendees directly at its booth during the event for live demonstrations and discussions about the future of connected onboard experiences. “We are always happy to exchange ideas with airlines, rail operators, onboard service providers, and technology partners,” Pruckmair adds. “Our message in advance is simple: the future of passenger experience will be connected, seamless, and passenger-centric. Especially today, as the industry continues to shift towards more point-to-point traffic and increasingly digital passenger journeys, creating a truly connected travel experience is becoming more important than ever. We believe onboard ordering should become as easy and intuitive as modern e-commerce on the ground – and we are excited to demonstrate how AEROMOND is helping make that vision a reality.”
Hear more from AEROMOND at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Sebastian Pruckmair, Founder & CEO, AEROMOND, is participating in the Startup Pitch Session with a pitch titled ‘AEROMOND. Redefining On-Board Experience’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Alphacomm eSIM
Alphacomm is a Rotterdam-based company with over 25 years of expertise in selling digital goods online. Its mission is simple: make it simple and safe to sell digital goods so businesses can capture every revenue opportunity in fast-moving markets. Alphacomm operates as a Merchant of Record, meaning it handles the full end-to-end infrastructure – product distribution, payments, fraud prevention, customer service and revenue consulting – so its partners don’t have to.
Alphacomm’s entry point into the air transport ecosystem is through branded travel eSIMs. Airlines, airports, and OTAs sit in a uniquely powerful position: their passengers are already buying connectivity elsewhere. Alphacomm gives those travel brands a fully managed, white-label eSIM shop that turns connectivity into a high-margin ancillary revenue stream under their own brand.
“APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing is the ideal venue for us because ancillary revenue is at the very heart of the conversation – and travel eSIM is rapidly becoming one of the hottest new categories within it,” Alphacomm explains. “Global airline ancillary revenue reached $148.4 billion in 2024 and is projected to hit $157 billion in 2025, representing 15.7% of total airline revenue. Our objectives at the event are threefold. First, to educate commercial and product leaders at airlines, airports, OTAs and other travel brands about the travel eSIM opportunity. Second, to demonstrate how fast and low-risk it is to launch with Alphacomm (zero setup fees, live in 4 weeks, no inventory – depending on the selected option). Third, to connect directly with decision-makers who are ready to turn connectivity from a missed revenue line into a genuine, repeatable ancillary stream.”
Visiting the Alphacomm stand won’t feel like a standard trade show stop. The company wants people to walk away having genuinely learned something – and with a prize. The centrepiece of its presence will be a live look at what a fully branded travel eSIM shop looks like in action: how a passenger encounters it in the booking flow, how fast the purchase is and why travellers convert. Alphacomm will be on hand to walk through how that experience gets built and launched under a partner’s own brand. Beyond the demo, Alphacomm will be having real conversations about what actually fits each business – whether that’s a fast out-of-the-box launch, a deeper loyalty and CRM integration or a fully embedded API solution. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer and Alphacomm enjoys finding the right fit together. “We’ll also have a spinning wheel at the stand with prizes so come by, take a spin and let’s talk,” says Alphacomm.
Alphacomm’s message to attendees is: “Your passengers are already buying travel eSIMs – just not from you. You have three things that pure eSIM players will never have: their trust, their travel data and zero customer acquisition cost at the point of purchase. The only question is whether you’re capturing that revenue or leaving it on the table. Come talk to us and we’ll find the best and most suitable way to get you started.”
Aviation Solutions by Schiphol
Known for products Deep Turnaround and Travor, Aviation Solutions is an independent subsidiary of Schiphol Group delivering high-quality, reliable, and proven airport solutions globally. Deep Turnaround optimises aircraft turnaround processes, while Travor enhances the experience for passengers in the terminal. Together, they drive efficiency, improve passenger satisfaction, and accelerate product innovation through active airport collaboration. Deployments of Aviation Solutions’ innovations include airports such as Vancouver Airport, Dublin Airport, Athens International Airport, and Milan Malpensa Airport.
Aviation Solutions’ key objectives as an exhibitor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing include connecting with the industry; learning from peers, customers, and new contacts; presenting its two solutions: Deep Turnaround and Travor; validating it roadmap and getting real inputs; and meeting new people.
At its booth, Aviation Solutions will talk about and share real learnings and insights from go-lives at many different airports – both for Travor and Deep Turnaround. Blue-dot navigation within Travor went live recently at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and at Copenhagen Airport – all can be done simply in the web browser of a passenger’s personal device. Meanwhile, Aviation Solutions recently rolled out new PRM call points at two major airports – improving accessibility and making journeys smoother for passengers needing assistance.
Aviramp
Aviramp is an independently owned, UK-based manufacturing company that specialises in aviation access and loading systems, specifically focusing on height-adjustable remote stand boarding ramps and bridges. Operating from its headquarters in Telford, United Kingdom, the company’s journey began in 2010 when it adapted its commercial disabled access ramps to serve aircraft parked on remote stands. Today, it supplies an extensive suite of mobile aircraft boarding solutions to a worldwide network of clients, offering customised ramps that cater to aircraft of all sizes – from large wide-body planes like the A380 down to small regional turboprops.
The core advantage of Aviramp’s products lies in its focus on safety, operational efficiency, and inclusivity. Its ramps feature low-angle slopes that provide step-free, unrestricted wheelchair access, granting greater dignity to passengers with reduced mobility (PRMs) and eliminating the need for specialised lifting equipment like Ambulifts. In addition to improving the overall passenger experience and eliminating fall risks, these ramps streamline ground handling operations. They enable simple one-person operation, deliver proven 30% faster disembarkation times, and significantly reduce vehicle traffic around the stand, minimising the risk of costly aircraft collisions.
Beyond operational and safety benefits, Aviramp is deeply committed to sustainability and industry excellence. Through its ‘Go Green’ initiative, the company has developed its entire product suite to offer solar-powered options with continuous battery charging, providing a fully sustainable alternative to traditional diesel engines. Built to strict IATA AHM 913 standards and backed by a 10-year structural warranty, its innovative approach has earned it prestigious industry recognition. This includes the 2021 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade and a ranking in the Sunday Times Hundred fastest-growing private companies for 2025.
Avsos
Avsos is an aviation technology company founded by people who genuinely love the industry – engineers, product builders and operators who believe the operation deserves software as modern as the aircraft itself. The company builds the Aviro product family: a connected suite that turns the everyday friction points of airline operations into clean, measurable gains.
Aviro IFR, Avsos’ inflight retail platform, already lives in daily revenue service with carriers such as AJet and SunExpress. Around it sits a deliberately interoperable ecosystem: Aviro Connect, an aviation-native integration layer (iPaaS) that lets systems that were never designed to talk to each other exchange data cleanly; Aviro Agents, an agentic AI platform that puts practical intelligence into operational workflows and behaves as digital workforce; Aviro E-Box, a portable edge server that keeps everything running even with no connectivity at 38,000 feet; and first candidate of Aviro Optimizers, Aviro Crew Scheduler for the people side of the operation.
“We don’t ask airlines to rip out what they have,” explain M. Fatih Berber, Co-Founder & Chairman, Avsos; S. Enver Yurter, Co-Founder & CTO, Avsos; and Dr. Ahmet Herekoğlu, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Avsos. “We integrate. Aviro plugs into the existing ecosystem – DCS, crew systems, payment, ERP, catering and ground handling – so that retail, data and operations finally move as one. The result is more ancillary revenue, fewer manual handoffs, and a passenger experience that feels intentional rather than improvised.”
Avsos is exhibiting at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing with three clear goals:
- Show, not tell. Demonstrate live, in-service Aviro IFR and the connected Aviro suite to airline retail, IT and operations leaders – real revenue running on real flights, not a slide deck.
- Build the right partnerships. Meet carriers, ground handlers, caterers and payment partners across EMEA who want to grow ancillary revenue and modernise the cabin without a multi-year IT programme.
- Listen and shape the roadmap. APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing is where the people who actually run retail and the cabin gather. We want their problems to shape where Aviro goes next – especially around agentic AI and offline-first edge architecture.
Underneath all of it is one objective: to position Avsos as the partner that makes ancillary retailing genuinely operational – measurable on the P&L, not just promising in theory.
Attendees can expect a hands-on stand rather than a static one. Avsos will run live demonstrations of Aviro IFR end-to-end – from a passenger purchase in the cabin, through payment, to the data landing cleanly in the airline’s systems via Aviro Connect – so visitors can see the whole loop close in real time. Two innovations Avsos is especially excited to showcase are:
- Aviro Agents – an agentic AI platform. This is where inflight retail stops being a fixed catalogue and starts behaving intelligently: anticipating demand, supporting crew decisions, and turning operational data into action without adding headcount.
- Aviro E-Box – a portable, offline edge server that keeps the entire retail and operational experience alive with zero connectivity. It’s described as the answer to the unglamorous but decisive question every airline asks: ‘What happens when the link drops at altitude?’
“We’ll also be candid about resilience and reliability – how the platform is engineered to keep selling and keep recording even when the network, the aircraft or the ground environment isn’t cooperating,” add M. Fatih Berber, Co-Founder & Chairman, Avsos; S. Enver Yurter, Co-Founder & CTO, Avsos; and Dr. Ahmet Herekoğlu, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Avsos. “In aviation, software that only works on a good day isn’t really finished software. Our message before Dublin is simple: ancillary revenue and a great cabin experience shouldn’t require you to choose between innovation and reliability, or between modern software and the systems you already run. With Aviro, you get both – connected, intelligent, and built to keep working at 38,000 feet. We’d love to show you how.”
biztribution
biztribution is redefining airline distribution with real-time, next-generation technology, empowering airlines and distribution partners to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and reduce costs by over 30%. Outdated pricing systems are draining billions from the airline industry, highlighting a critical need for intelligent and real-time solutions. biztribution offers a cloud-native platform that transforms airline pricing by offloading high-volume search and pricing transactions, enabling faster, smarter, and more scalable distribution.
At APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing, biztribution would like to showcase the cutting-edge solutions that it has successfully deployed for leading aviation providers, including connection optimisation tools, schedule visualisation platforms, and flight load auditing systems – all delivering measurable operational efficiency and revenue gains.
biztribution’s exhibition presence is designed to give attendees a substantive view of where airline retailing and distribution are heading, and the technology required to get there. Its latest air distribution capabilities include:
- Real-time personalised pricing, availability, routes, fees and taxes (in compliance with IATA and ATPCO) – increase customer engagement and revenues for the airline.
- PSS / Offer & Order Management (OOM) Offload: Avoid millions of unnecessary non-business / read-only transactions – significant cost reduction while revamping the customer experience.
- Customisable workflows tailored to airline needs – revenue increase.
biztribution’s message to attendees is: “Our team, which brings decades of hands-on background in GDS distribution, airline IT, and travel technology will be there to dig into specific use cases, whether you’re an airline rethinking your distribution strategy or a travel player looking for cutting-edge solutions. For those who want to go deeper, we’re hosting informal one-on-one sessions throughout the event. Bring your toughest distribution question, we like those conversations best.”
Hear more from biztribution at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Juan Antonio Navarro, CEO, biztribution, is participating in the Startup Pitch Session with a pitch titled ‘The next airline infrastructure crisis will not begin at the airport. It will begin in the search box’.
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ByteTravel is a Spanish TravelTech company founded in 2021 in Barcelona, focused on transforming the travel experience through innovative digital solutions. The company develops technology-driven services for leisure and business travellers, including online visa processing, international eSIM connectivity, airport services, and other travel support tools designed to simplify global travel.
With offices in Barcelona, Madrid, and Miami, ByteTravel works with travel agencies, airlines, cruise companies, and tour operators through API integrations and digital platforms. Its growing ecosystem of services – including Visagov, Roamic, and other travel solutions – helps travellers navigate international mobility more efficiently while improving convenience, connectivity, and accessibility worldwide.
Fairlyne
Fairlyne is a Paris-based travel tech company that has pioneered post-booking optimisation for airlines and rail operators. Its white-label SaaS platform enables carriers to launch their own branded ticket resale service, extending Revenue Management beyond booking into the final days before departure. When a passenger can no longer travel, they submit a resale request through the carrier’s own channels. The airline’s RM team sets recovery rules in the cockpit, monitors performance at flight level, and adjusts in real time. Francyne, Fairlyne’s AI layer, surfaces insights and suggests adjustments to push efficiency further. The result: typically 1-2% pure incremental revenue uplift, zero operational cost increase, non-invasive integration. Fairlyne works with Transavia, Flair Airlines, Royal Air Maroc, and OUIGO, and has processed hundreds of thousands of seat recoveries since launch.
Fairlyne has three key objectives as an exhibitor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing:
- Connect with commercial and RM teams discovering post-booking optimisation for the first time.
- Have direct conversations with airlines looking for proven, fast-to-deploy revenue levers.
- Listen the market, as events like this are where you learn what the market is truly struggling with, what’s gaining traction, and where the next opportunities are.
Attendees can expect a hands-on look at both sides of the platform – the white-label passenger interface and the RM cockpit. “A quick revenue impact calculation: with just a few inputs, we can give any airline a concrete estimate of what Fairlyne would generate on their network in minutes,” Fairlyne explains. “A glimpse into where Francyne, our AI layer, is heading. We’re particularly excited to present the broader Fairlyne suite, complementary products in development to optimise post-booking revenue across more use cases.”
Visit the Fairlyne booth for a live demo and a quick revenue impact calculation. The company is also happy to schedule dedicated one-to-ones in advance for teams who want to go deeper.
Fairlyne’s message to attendees is: “No-shows are a shared pain – passengers lose money on non-refundable tickets and airlines lose yield on empty seats. Resale solves both at once. It’s a low-hanging-fruit revenue opportunity, still untapped by most, yet already proven across airlines and rail operators with strong results and growing industry recognition. It also builds a real differentiator on direct channels. Come see what it looks like in practice and let’s run the numbers together.”
Flow Analytics
Flow Analytics by AGC helps airport operators monitor passenger flow, queue times, and terminal density in real time, using privacy-first 3D LiDAR. No cameras. No personal data captured. GDPR-compliant by design. From check-in to boarding, operations teams get live KPIs on waiting time, queue length, throughput, and congestion across every critical zone, so they can act before service levels drop. Planning teams get historical trends and hard evidence to support layout decisions, staffing changes, and capacity planning. Fewer sensors. Wider coverage. Proven in real-world terminal conditions.
Journey Robotics
Journey Robotics is dedicated to developing touchless solutions that perform the physically demanding, repetitive tasks associated with baggage handling. Its robots load and unload all types of luggage in a fast and efficient manner, improving the safety and well-being of baggage handlers while ensuring passengers have a seamless and hassle-free journey.
Kaiban
Kaiban helps airlines turn AI into practical business value – without adding complexity, dependency, or disconnected pilots. It builds airline-ready AI products that help carriers move faster, improve digital and commercial outcomes, and stay in control of their data, roadmap, and AI knowledge. Kaiban combines ready-to-deploy AI products, a management platform, an AI product factory, and an airline + AI expert team to solve real airline problems across customer experience, retailing, operations, servicing, and productivity. Kaiban’s approach helps airlines build around their own business, not around someone else’s stack – making AI affordable, adaptable, secure, and fully in the airline’s control.
Hear more from Kaiban at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Alfonso (Poncho) Ramirez, President, Kaiban, is participating in a session titled ‘How should you set up your commercial and retailing teams to thrive in the age of AI and Agentic AI?’
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Movmo
Movmo is an express checkout and identity layer for airline booking flows – the ShopPay equivalent for airline direct booking. “Airlines have the highest checkout abandonment rate of any industry, around 89% of bookings abandoned before completion,” explains Kameron Bertine, CEO and Co-founder, Movmo. “A big part of that is identity friction: travellers forced to re-enter details, create yet another account, re-apply their loyalty number. A significant portion is payment friction too – travellers hitting a checkout that doesn’t support the payment method they need, or running into processing errors at the final step. Movmo fixes both. We store passenger profiles, payment details, loyalty data, and traveller preferences – seats, bags, meals, and other ancillaries – so that when a traveller hits checkout on an airline’s website, everything is already there, including the ancillaries most likely to convert.”
Movmo sits on top of an airline’s existing booking engine as an embedded checkout button. No PSS changes, no IBE rebuild. “We integrate directly with the airline’s APIs, handle all the technical heavy lifting, and the integration lift for the airline is around 10 hours of dev work over the course of the pilot,” says Bertine. “The airline stays on their own URL, issues the ticket, and remains merchant of record throughout – they own the customer, receive payment directly, and Movmo never holds funds. For airlines navigating the pressure to modernise without the budget or runway for a full stack overhaul, Movmo is the fastest path to a checkout experience that feels modern – personalised, frictionless, ancillary-aware – without touching the PSS or rebuilding anything.”
Movmo has also built an AI agent booking channel via MCP. Travellers booking through ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI assistants get routed to airlines directly, not to an OTA. Movmo handles identity, payment, and fulfilment. The airline still issues the ticket.
Movmo’s primary objective as an exhibitor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing is to find the right airline partners for its first pilot cohort. “Movmo is pre-pilot,” Bertine explains. “We’ve done the product, the partnerships, the distribution groundwork. What we need now is an airline willing to run a live A/B test against their existing checkout – real traffic, real KPIs, free 90-day window to prove the conversion uplift. Dublin is the best room we could be in for that conversation. Airlines spend enormous energy trying to win travellers back through loyalty and marketing. A lot of that leakage can be fixed earlier – at the booking flow itself, before the traveller ends up on an OTA. Checkout is the most overlooked moment in the entire booking journey. Reducing OTA dependence starts there, before it’s a marketing problem. I want real conversations with the people who actually own the booking flow – revenue management, digital, treasury. A conference like this is one of the few places those conversations happen in person.”
A live demo will be running at the Movmo stand – the full express checkout flow on an existing airline booking page. It takes about 90 seconds to walk through. “The moment people see the Movmo button appear on a booking screen and watch a traveller complete checkout in one click, the conversation shifts from what is this? to how long does integration actually take?” says Bertine. “Around 10 hours of engineering time. We handle everything on our side, and the airline’s native checkout stays live as a fallback – no risk to the booking flow. We’ll also show the identity layer in context: how Movmo identifies the traveller at the start of the session, before they ever hit a login prompt, so airlines can surface the right ancillaries to the right traveller at the right moment. That’s the part that tends to surprise people – the problem isn’t just checkout friction, it’s that recognition comes too late.”
Hear more from Movmo at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Kameron Bertine, CEO & Co-Founder, Movmo, is participating in the Startup Pitch Session with a pitch titled ‘The Last 60 Seconds: How Movmo Brings 1-Click Checkout to Airline Direct Booking’.
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OpenJaw is committed to supporting its airline partners with their transition to retailing excellence by enabling them to offer a truly differentiated omni-channel experience. A proponent of broad omni-channel retailing techniques, OpenJaw enables airlines to seamlessly sell the full range of travel products. OpenJaw strongly believes that those airlines who sell the full itinerary and offer an integrated and seamless customer experience will be best positioned to capitalise on new market opportunities. OpenJaw’s products include Offer and Order Management, Offer Optimisation, direct channel capabilities (IBE), NDC, and the ability to sell the full itinerary to maximise share of wallet and basket size.
Passtination
Passtination is a white-label destination loyalty platform built for airlines. It extends an airline’s loyalty programme into the destination itself, giving members instant, merchant-funded discounts at restaurants, hotels, fitness studios, and local experiences, all delivered through a branded wallet pass that lives on Apple or Google Wallet.
“We build and operate a custom merchant network for each airline, issue branded wallet passes that feel native to the loyalty programme, and capture real-world engagement data based on how members actually spend and explore after landing,” explains Safir Jamal, Founder & CEO, Passtination. “Airlines can offer free trial passes by status tier, then convert that engagement into paid upgrades settled in cash or miles. Because merchants fund the discounts and our flat annual fee covers all technology and operations, every free-to-paid conversion goes straight to the airline’s bottom line.”
At APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing, Passtination is looking to connect with loyalty programme managers and ancillary revenue leaders who are thinking about two things: how to drive more revenue from their existing member base, and how to keep members engaged between flights. “Most loyalty programmes are excellent at rewarding the booking, but fewer have cracked what to do with members in the 300-plus days a year they’re not flying,” says Jamal. “That’s the gap Passtination fills. We also know that traveller expectations are changing. Today’s travellers expect immediate value, not points they’ll redeem years from now. Passtination gives airlines a way to meet that expectation without redesigning what they’ve already built. It complements rather than replaces the earn-and-burn model, and this is the right room to have that conversation.”
Passtination will walk attendees through two things. First, the member experience: what it actually feels like to land in a new destination, open your mobile wallet, and instantly unlock a local discount through your airline’s loyalty programme. Second, the commercial model: specifically, how free trial passes convert to paid upgrades, and why those upgrades land as pure margin for the airline.
Jamal’s message to attendees is: “If your programme does a strong job rewarding the flight but loses momentum once members land, there’s real revenue sitting in that gap.”
Hear more from Passtination at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Safir Jamal, Founder & CEO, Passtination, is participating in the Startup Pitch Session with a pitch titled ‘Passtination: The Highest-Margin Ancillary You’re Not Selling Yet’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Plan3
Plan3 is a passenger-focused disruption management system that puts unrivalled ease of recovery in the hands of disruption customer care teams. Simply put, Plan3 solves every aspect of passenger disruption, automatically sourcing holistic solutions with eyes on the entire passenger journey. Using Plan3’s Option Creator tool, airlines can easily bundle together and publish relevant options (eg, new flight, hotel, transportation, digital meal vouchers), and passengers can self-serve their way to a seamless onward journey.
Planitas
Planitas helps airlines make better use of their data. For most industries, data enables the business to make better decisions. However, for airlines, legacy technology, disparate sources, and siloed applications put this data-advantage out-of-reach. With the science-powered ADAPTiv platform, Planitas unlocks granular value, down to PNR-level, from any data source in real-time. It enables the company to tackle complex revenue-related challenges such as accurate proration, ticketing, connection analysis, and demand forecasting. Also, it allows Planitas to optimise dynamic offer strategies, including offer recommendations and pricing.
Platform 195
Platform 195 fuses data science, cutting-edge retail media technology, and creative strategy to help brands go further, faster. From streamlined travel partnerships to full-funnel marketing, its solutions harness first-party data to connect the dots and drive performance. Whether you’re launching a travel retail media network, elevating brand partnerships, or amplifying your impact, Platform 195’s intelligent tools and industry expertise give you a powerful edge in today’s competitive landscape.
Hear more from Platform 195 at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Stuart Adamson, CEO & Founder, Platform 195, is participating in the Startup Pitch Session with a pitch titled ‘The connected journey: How connectivity is unlocking a new era of airline media’.
Register for the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events – free for airlines, low-cost for airports >>Power Stow
Power Stow is a family-owned engineering and manufacturing company with headquarters at Gadstrup, just outside Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark. In addition to its Danish facilities, Power Stow also has a production plant near Atlanta, GA (USA). Power Stow was established in 2003. Founder Martin Vestergaard had a vision for a system that could improve working conditions for airport ramp agents, enhance efficiency and reduce turnaround times without compromising on quality or performance. The Rollertrack Conveyor, a unique belt loader extension, was introduced in 2005. With strong focus on quality and innovation, and listening to the needs of its customers, Power Stow is now the world’s leading provider of the extendable belt loader technology. Today, the Rollertrack Conveyor system serves the world’s busiest airports, leading airlines and ground handling companies.
Roomstorm
Roomstorm has supported airlines with stranded passengers since 2016, removing the manual work that makes disruption management so painful. Founded by Maksim Izmaylov and backed by Y Combinator, Roomstorm built the airline industry’s first fully automated hotel accommodation platform. Now, with Stormy, an AI passenger care platform, it manages the full disruption journey via intelligent communication, automated workflows, and real-time operational support – interacting with the passengers while interconnecting the various airlines and partner systems.
The key objective for Roomstorm at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing is to showcase Stormy – its new AI-powered passenger care platform that helps airlines manage disruption at scale through intelligent communication, automated workflows, and real-time operational support. With agentic AI at the core of Stormy, the platform can address a wide range of passenger care use cases – deployed in extremely short time to help airlines strengthen loyalty, drive long-term revenue, and reduce operating costs.
Roomstorm’s message to attendees is: “We’d love to hear your feedback on Stormy – and how it would align with your passenger service optimisation needs and operating landscape. Let’s also discuss how you’d like to see Stormy evolve to best fit your requirements.”
Shabstec
Shabstec delivers baggage solutions to the aviation industry. The Bagnition suite of applications can manage baggage from check-in through to aircraft loading. The newly designed TagForLife offers electronic bag tag technology with a display, BLE and RFID capability making it ideal for baggage processing. The baggage broker allows airlines and airports to exchange baggage notifications using an easy to use, low-cost self-service portal. The electric baggage cart technology removes the need for conveyors / ICS systems, making baggage transport simple and straightforward and saves on OPEX / CAPEX costs too.
SkyFood Airport Delivery
TracFtech is a technology company specialising in autonomous robotics and digital solutions. Its flagship platform, SkyFood Airport Delivery, is a unique marketplace designed to digitise commerce in airport terminals. “We seamlessly integrate airport commerce, allowing passengers to purchase items from any airport retailer via app and receive their orders directly at their boarding gate,” explains Frank Lima, CEO, TracFtech.
The company’s main objective as an exhibitor at APEX FTE EMEA and Ancillary & Retailing is to showcase the evolution of airport retail and OOH media in exclusive motion on its robot screens. “We aim to connect with airport operators, airlines, and visionary innovation leaders seeking to enhance the passenger experience,” says Lima. “We seek to establish strategic partnerships, validate and demonstrate how autonomous robotics can boost retail sales and generate new advertising sources simultaneously.”
Attendees can look forward to a first-hand experience with SkyFood Airport Delivery’s autonomous delivery and media robots. “We are particularly excited to showcase our ‘media in motion’ technology,” Lima shares. “SkyFood is the only robot globally equipped with three integrated LCD advertising screens designed for high-impact terminal marketing. Furthermore, we will demonstrate our advanced navigation system, which features state-of-the-art cameras and sensors tested in high-density environments to ensure proactive, collision-free pedestrian manoeuvring. Attendees will also see our robots in action during on-stage activations and interactive prize deliveries. Crucially, we are thrilled to introduce our ecosystem’s software capabilities: our proprietary app not only delivers real-time flight and boarding gate updates directly to passengers, but it also enables airlines to issue digital food vouchers and gift cards within the platform, valid for consumption across any retailer in the airport.”
SkyFood Airport Delivery’s autonomous robots will be roaming the exhibition floor throughout the event. “Knowing the incredible attention and engagement they naturally attract, they will be actively distributing brochures and displaying dedicated promotional content on their screens to direct attendees straight to our booth,” Lima adds. “Today almost everything we buy or order is directly through our smartphones. Why in the airport is it still not like this? The passenger spends idle time on the cell phone sitting close to their boarding gate. Go elevate their experience?”
TripAdd
TripAdd is a travel technology company based in New York that operates as an AI-powered marketplace for travel ‘ancillaries’ – the additional products and services travellers often need alongside their flights and hotels. Founded in 2020 as part of the Blue Ribbon Bags Group, the company’s primary mission is to simplify the travel experience by using machine learning to curate personalised bundles of services like travel eSIMs, airport lounge access, flight alerts, and eVisas. By analysing specific trip details, TripAdd’s engine selects the most relevant products and combines them into discounted packages, moving away from the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach of traditional travel sites.
The company functions largely as a B2B (business-to-business) white-label solution, allowing Online Travel Agencies (OTAs), airlines, and other travel providers to integrate its marketplace directly into their own booking flows. This enables these partners to offer a more comprehensive service to their customers while generating additional revenue through high-margin ancillary sales. A significant milestone for the company occurred in 2022 when it acquired Eddy Travels, a Lithuanian AI chatbot innovator. This acquisition allowed TripAdd to integrate advanced natural language processing and automated customer support into its ecosystem, further enhancing its ability to provide real-time, intelligent recommendations.
Headquartered in New York with a major R&D hub in Vilnius, Lithuania, TripAdd positions itself at the intersection of travel and artificial intelligence. By leveraging the existing infrastructure and network of its parent group – which has relationships with over 300 OTAs worldwide – TripAdd has rapidly scaled its presence in the global travel market. Its value proposition centres on ‘stressless travel’, aiming to handle the small but vital details of a journey through automation, thereby saving travellers both time and money while helping travel businesses modernise their digital offerings.
Viasat
Viasat is a global communications company that provides advanced satellite and wireless connectivity solutions to consumers, businesses, governments, and aviation partners worldwide. The company specialises in delivering high-speed broadband and secure communications services, enabling people and organisations to stay connected wherever they are – even in remote or hard-to-reach locations.
Operating across multiple sectors, Viasat offers services including home and enterprise internet, inflight connectivity for airlines, maritime and energy communications, and mission-critical solutions for defence and government. Its technology spans satellite networks, ground systems, and next-generation space-based infrastructure designed to support global connectivity.
With a strong focus on innovation, Viasat develops and deploys advanced satellite systems and digital communication technologies that power modern connectivity. By combining media, mobility, and network solutions, the company plays a key role in shaping the future of global communications and enabling seamless digital experiences across industries.
Hear more from Viasat at the co-located APEX FTE EMEA and APEX FTE Ancillary & Retailing events, taking place in Dublin on 9-11 June 2026. Chris Demange, VP – Digital Services & Partnerships, Viasat, is participating in a session titled ‘Where are the biggest opportunities to increase ancillary revenues and how can airlines unlock the untapped potential?’
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