Sustainability

January 31, 2025February 3, 2025

Matt Crane, ASF: Get Excited About Cabin Waste

Join Matt Crane, Founder, Aviation Sustainability Forum and this year’s WTCE Ambassador for Sustainability as he discusses cabin waste – a problem we can solve. ... Read more

April 25, 2024

Spotlighting the Aviation Sustainability Forum: Unpacking Cabin Waste

Industry Insights, Industry reports, Sustainability

In the domain of sustainable aviation, the reduction of cabin waste will play a huge role in improving the industry’s overall environmental footprint. Airlines and caterers are ... Read more

April 23, 2024April 23, 2024

Sustainability Front & Centre With Matt Crane, Aviation Sustainability Forum

Sustainability, Trends & Insights

Matt Crane has over 20 years’ experience in food manufacturing, global product supply and aviation catering and is the founder of the Aviation Sustainability Forum (ASF). The ... Read more

April 4, 2024April 2, 2024

Introducing the Aviation Sustainability Forum: Exploring the Cabin Waste Composition Programme

Cabin Catch Up, Forecasts, Industry Insights, Industry reports, Sustainability, Trends, Trends & Insights

Matt Crane is the founder of the Aviation Sustainability Forum and a Strategic Projects Lead at SATS, Asia’s largest aviation caterer and the world’s largest provider of ... Read more

March 6, 2024

Innovative Approaches to Embracing the Circular Economy Onboard

Sustainability, Trends & Insights

As the global focus on sustainability intensifies, airlines and rail operators face mounting pressure to address the travel industry’s significant carbon footprint. With consumers becoming increasingly informed ... Read more

December 11, 2023January 25, 2024

Sustainable Dining and Rotable Catering Onboard Airlines

Packaging, Product Showcase, Products, Sustainability, Tableware & Serviceware

Welcome to our Products in Focus series. These articles will take a look at the latest and most exciting travel catering and onboard service products for airlines ... Read more

October 20, 2023November 2, 2023

Creating a Sustainable Onboard Supply Chain, With Procurall

Cabin Catch Up, Sustainability

The WTCE team spoke with Jennifer Green, President + Co-Founder of Procurall Solutions. In our talk, we covered how partnerships, third-party evaluations, and both consumer and airline ... Read more

May 8, 2023

Taste of Travel Interview: Mike Pooley

Podcast, Sustainability, WTCE Videos

Mike Pooley of The Hayward Partnership, specialises in recruitment, consultancy, coaching opportunities and non-exec positions in and around the travel catering and retail industry sector. This year, ... Read more

March 23, 2023March 14, 2023

How Are Airlines Tackling F&B Waste Onboard?

Beverages, Food, Industry Insights, Sustainability, Trends

Food is a necessity when flying. But what happens to untouched or leftover airplane food? It simply goes to waste. All in-flight food that passengers do not ... Read more

March 8, 2023April 6, 2023

March’s Sustainability Top 10 at WTCE

Onboard Retail, Packaging, Products, Sustainability, Trends & Insights, What’s New Onboard

Sustainability solutions are a present and ongoing concern for both onboard suppliers and buyers. A number of factors, including carbon zero commitments and a growing passenger concern ... Read more

February 28, 2023April 6, 2023

The Responsibility of Onboard Products in a Sustainable Future

Food, Industry Insights, Sustainability

The WTCE Team sat down with Dominic Simler, Managing Director at PLAYin Choc® to discuss current trends in the onboard food and beverage industry. PLAYin Choc® is ... Read more

February 8, 2023February 28, 2023

Cabin Catch Up: Plane Talking Products

Cabin Catch Up, Sustainability, Trends & Insights

As part of our Cabin Catch Up series, where we interview people and companies within the onboard services and travel catering industry, the WTCE team sat down ... Read more

January 25, 2023February 20, 2023

First Time Exhibitor Interview: Sonisk

Amenities, Products, Sustainability, What’s New Onboard

We sat down with William Cowley, Head of Business Development at Sonisk, a pioneering UK healthcare brand aiming to put the best oral care technology within everyone’s ... Read more

January 4, 2023September 6, 2023

Halal Airline Products Are Still An Untapped Sector Of Onboard

Food, Forecasts, Industry Insights, Industry reports, Sustainability, Trends, Trends & Insights

Whether they’re produced and consumer for dietary reasons or religious requirements, a continual area of growth for the travel catering and onboard services market is halal products ... Read more

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022

Passengers Lead the Sustainability Cause

Sustainability

Airlines and their suppliers cannot afford to ignore the call of their customers for a sustainable inflight service and as an industry we must ensure that we ... Read more

December 8, 2021February 18, 2022

Airlines will need to create engaging journeys in 2022

Industry Insights, Onboard Retail, Sustainability, Tech, Trends

As travel looks to rebound in 2022, it should be no surprise that airlines and their passenger experience partners are making new adjustments to meet changing consumer ... Read more

April 14, 2021September 6, 2023

The sustainability need for airlines to reduce food waste onboard

Food, Industry Insights, Sustainability, Tech, Trends, Trends & Insights

The sustainability case for tackling food waste is increasingly hard to ignore. Unconsumed food, including losses at pre-consumer levels, is associated with 8-10% of greenhouse gas emissions ... Read more

March 15, 2021June 4, 2021

New Onboard Service Products Provide a Path to Profitability

Food, Industry Insights, Packaging, Sustainability, Tech, Trends, Trends & Insights

The passenger experience community was preoccupied with responses to digitalisation, personalisation and sustainability even before 2020. However, the events of the past year have pushed aside any ... Read more

February 15, 2021February 20, 2023

The future of food and beverage on airlines in 2021

Beverages, Food, Industry Insights, Sustainability, Tech, Trends

The world of onboard catering and services has changed forever due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As airlines paused their food and beverage offerings, they quickly worked to ... Read more

June 1, 2020April 20, 2021

Train Travel on the Right Tracks

Sustainability, Trends & Insights

Changing passenger habits and a focus on sustainability puts rail travel on the right track. A renewed focus on the environmental impacts of flying is set to ... Read more