Trends

October 11, 2024October 21, 2024

Future & The New Passenger

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 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

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

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

March 15, 2023March 14, 2023

Dietary requirements onboard: How to cater for 10% of the population

Food, Industry Insights, Trends

Catering for special dietary requests and allergies has never been more important for airlines keen to ensure passengers feel safely catered for The airline industry has come ... Read more

February 21, 2023February 21, 2023

Is Buy Onboard the Future of Inflight Revenue?

Beverages, Food, Forecasts, Industry Insights, Onboard Retail, Trends

Airlines are embracing buy-onboard as part of a suite of ways to engage passengersbefore and during their journey. Inflight sales – from duty free to food and ... Read more

February 14, 2023June 2, 2023

The Biggest Trends in Onboard Services

Forecasts, Industry Insights, Trends, Trends & Insights

World Travel Catering & Onboard Services Expo (WTCE) has been bringing the industry together and connecting buyers and suppliers for more than 11 years. And in this time, ... Read more

February 13, 2023November 16, 2023

Cabin Crew On: Onboard Trends For Uniforms

Industry Insights, Products, Trends

Airline uniforms display a carrier’s identity, image, cultural attributes, and distinctiveness. And with the onboard industry continuously innovating everything from menu options to inflight entertainment, how much ... Read more

February 2, 2023February 20, 2023

Exhibiting at WTCE: A Year in Statistics

Beverages, Food, Industry Insights, Industry reports, Products, Trends

World Travel Catering & Onboard Services Expo (WTCE) has been bringing the industry together and connecting buyers and suppliers for more than 11 years. So what do exhibitors ... 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

May 24, 2022May 31, 2022

Digital takes off: contactless travel, shopping and food & beverages

Industry Insights, Tech, Trends, Trends & Insights

The pandemic has forced the hand of the travel trinity: At the beginning of 2020, airlines, airports and travel retailers – including hospitality businesses, hit fast-forward on ... Read more

May 6, 2022May 31, 2022

What’s on at WTCE this June

Press Releases, Trends, Trends & Insights, WTCE press releases

Prepare to bounce back post-pandemic as the exhibition returns to Hamburg 14-16 June to celebrate its 10-year anniversary World Travel Catering & Onboard Services Expo (WTCE) returns ... Read more