Industry Insights

November 15, 2024November 15, 2024

Discovering new opportunities: Icelandair takes flight at WTCE

Blog, Industry Insights

The WTCE team spoke to Þórunn Björg Guðmundsdóttir, Manager at Icelandair for Onboard Services and Procurement, about her key takeaways from the show. ... Read more

October 30, 2024October 31, 2024

Maximising your time at WTCE: a perspective from Austrian Airlines

Blog, Industry Insights

The WTCE team spoke to Simone Walli, Catering Manager Culinary Art and F&B onboard Concepts at Austrian Airlines, about her experience at the show. Read more. ... Read more

October 11, 2024October 21, 2024

Future & The New Passenger

Industry Insights, Trends, Trends & Insights

As the travel industry enters a transformative era, evolving passenger expectations and emerging trends are redefining onboard services. Read more to find out. ... Read more

April 26, 2024April 26, 2024

Flightpath to Loyalty: How Catering to Allergies and Special Diets Can Win Over Passengers

Industry Insights, Trends, Trends & Insights

Securing a safe meal onboard shouldn’t really be a luxury—it should be your right, rather than a privilege. Free-from options aren’t merely preferences, they’re essential for those ... 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 12, 2024

Ones to Watch at WTCE 2024: Innovative Brands that are redefining Airline Beverage Offerings

Beverages, Industry Insights, Products, Trends

Where customer experience is concerned, every detail matters and enjoying a beverage at 30,000 feet can now be an adventure in taste and sustainability with hundreds of ... 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 26, 2024March 22, 2024

Exploring complexities and innovation within airline special meals provision

Food, Industry Insights, Press Releases, Trends, Trends & Insights, WTCE Videos

Collaborating with Jane Hobson, managing editor at PAX International Magazine, World Travel Catering & Onboard Services Expo (WTCE) recently hosted a virtual industry roundtable, bringing together prominent ... Read more

March 13, 2024March 13, 2024

The Elephant in the Cabin: Tackling Buy-on-board in the Digital Age

Industry Insights, Trends & Insights

The burgeoning shift to in-seat ordering offers a potentially game-changing opportunity for low-cost and full-service carriers alike. Airlines will seek to extend their engagement with passengers with ... Read more

February 28, 2024February 27, 2024

Sip-soaring high innovation in the global airline drinks industry

Beverages, Industry Insights, Trends & Insights

By Kelly J Stevenson, Director, JetVine Ltd In an f&b (food and beverage) world where the customer has more choices available to them, global aviation catering is ... Read more

February 20, 2024February 21, 2024

Between an apple and bag of crisps: The future of healthy food onboard

Food, Industry Insights, Trends & Insights

WTCE Ambassador – Travel Nutrition, Melissa AdamskiAPD BSc MNDhttp://www.nuttedoutnutrition.com.au Food is a pivotal part of travel. Personally, I’m excited when I get on a plane to see ... Read more

December 14, 2023

How are airlines responding to evolving passenger food preferences?

Food, Industry Insights, Trends, Trends & Insights

Creating the optimum onboard passenger experience is a tricky landscape to navigate. However, executing this concept well could mean the difference between the route to success or ... Read more

November 1, 2023November 27, 2023

Towards a Sustainable Supply Chain 

Trends

Sustainability in the travel catering and onboard services sector is no longer a flight of fancy but a necessity across the entire supply chain. To meet both ... Read more

October 16, 2023October 16, 2023

The BEST Airline Meals (All Classes) 

Food, Trends

Airline dining has developed to meet the needs of a variety of passengers by providing a wealth of choices across the various cabin classes. Airlines offer a ... Read more

June 14, 2023October 16, 2023

How can airline carriers make travel less stressful?

Comfort & Wellbeing, Industry Insights, Trends

One of the most convenient ways to reach faraway destinations is still through airline travel. However, despite decades of experience, travelling by airline can also be stressful. ... Read more

May 5, 2023April 28, 2023

Bringing Back the Wow Factor to Air Travel in 2023: WTCE x PAX International Round Table

Industry Insights, Trends & Insights, WTCE Videos

This year’s roundtable, hosted by Stephanie Philip, Editor at PAX International Magazine, in association with PAX International publication centred on the topic Bringing Back the Wow Factor ... Read more

May 4, 2023November 30, 2023

Airlines & Suppliers are Going Organic: Here’s Why 

Food, Industry Insights

Aviation food represents one of the biggest revenue drivers for onboard. Yet, with increasing trends in passengers either bringing their own food when travelling, or buying food ... Read more

April 24, 2023March 31, 2023

How To: Leverage Business Class Onboard Revenue  

Industry Insights, Trends, Trends & Insights

From video conferencing to remote working, we live in an era where almost everything has already been digitised. However, stronger and more meaningful business relationships are typically ... Read more

March 27, 2023March 2, 2023

Is Packaging the Answer to Sustainability Onboard?

Industry Insights, Packaging, Trends

One of the environmental crises facing airlines is cabin waste. Huge amounts of food and plastic waste end up incinerated or in landfills, and airlines are trying ... 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