Premium passengers flying from Heathrow to Beirut, Cairo, Baku, Tel Aviv and Amman can now make use of the complimentary food pre-ordering service.

British Airways is trialling the sale of seat upgrades using the New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard via the Skyscanner meta-search engine.

FTE recently attended the TFWA Inflight Focus Workshop to gauge the extent to which the inflight retail sector is responding to technology-enabled change.

Spring Airlines has teamed up with GuestLogix to enable its flight attendants to accept onboard payment for ancillary items via handheld point-of-sale devices.

A new grocery shopping concept called “emmasbox” is currently being trialled in the baggage reclaim area at Munich Airport’s Terminal 2.

Passengers flying from Gatwick Airport’s South Terminal will be able to download a selection of movies to their smartphones and tablets ahead of departure.