Air Canada has announced its most comprehensive cabin renewal program yet, designed to make every flight across North America more comfortable, more connected, and more consistent for customers and crew members. Spanning Air Canada mainline, Air Canada Rouge and Air Canada Express, this multi-year investment reimagines the onboard experience with new interiors, next-generation technology, and thoughtful details inspired by customer and co-worker feedback. This includes a comprehensive fast, free WiFi offering, sponsored by Bell.

Emirates and OpenAI have entered into a strategic collaboration to advance artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and innovation across the airline. The collaboration will entail enterprise-wide deployment of ChatGPT Enterprise, supported by tailored AI literacy programmes, technical exploration, and executive strategic alignment designed to embed AI capabilities across the organisation.

International Airlines Group (IAG) – a Corporate Partner of the FTE Digital, Innovation & Startup Hub – has announced a partnership to implement Starlink-enabled high-speed WiFi connectivity on Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, LEVEL and Vueling aircraft, with the first aircraft due to go live with the service in early 2026. This will allow customers to stay connected in the skies with download and upload speeds as good or better than home connectivity, enabling fast downloads, streaming and online gaming for customers on IAG airlines.

Lufthansa’s A380 superjumbos are being upgraded with a new business class seat – and it won’t be the same Allegris business class as now flying on the Airbus A350, and soon the Boeing 787 and 747-8. Instead, the A380 will introduce another business class seat into the Lufthansa mix. “We are introducing a standard very-high quality all-aisle access product in business class” on the A380, Lufthansa’s Chief Customer Officer Heiko Reitz told Executive Traveller during a media briefing in Munich earlier this year.

Etihad Airways captured the headlines on the second day of the Dubai Airshow 2025 when it announced it was ordering dozens of widebody Airbus aircraft, some directly from the European aircraft manufacturer, and others via leasing firm Avolon. In addition to an incremental order for six A350-1000 aircraft and three A350 freighters, the airline’s order for 15 A330neo aircraft drew particular attention. The order will see the return of the A330 to Etihad’s fleet, albeit in its latest and most modern version, the A330-900neo. 

The Coffee Academïcs, Hong Kong’s homegrown specialty coffee brand, has made history as the first local coffee brand to collaborate with Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong’s premier airline, bringing its signature blends to passengers taking to the skies. This milestone partnership showcases The Coffee Academïcs’ artisanal expertise while offering travellers a premium inflight coffee experience.Founded in 2012, 

You will know by now that JetBlue has added two more European routes. Next April, it'll take off from  Boston to Barcelona, followed by Boston to Milan in May. The latter is the troubled carrier's new longest service. When other carriers are included, they were two of 13 new long-haul routes announced in just two days. JetBlue's European foray began amid the pandemic in 2021. In 2026, the airline currently plans a record 14 European routes, all of which are from its top two US airports: New York JFK and Boston. It will serve nine airports on the other side of the Atlantic for the first time.

Spirit Airlines has touched down in Belize City after launching its nonstop service from Fort Lauderdale. This marks the airline's sole service to the Central American country. While Spirit Airlines has been making headlines due to financial pressures putting a question mark over its future, the carrier has expanded to Belize, and is the only operator to fly between Fort Lauderdale and Belize City Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport (BZE).

Thai Airways is to line-fit Neo Space Group’s (NSG) advanced inflight connectivity (IFC) solution – NSG Skywaves – on all of its new fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, positioning the two companies at the forefront of next-generation inflight connectivity. Through this agreement, Thai Airways will equip all 34 of its Boeing 787 aircraft with NSG’s multi-orbit IFC solution, enabling broadband speeds of up to 200 Mbps to support high-speed passenger WiFi and enhance operational efficiency.

As technology advances and the provision of in-flight Wi-Fi becomes available with more carriers, American low-cost carrier, Frontier Airlines, is expected to be the next carrier to offer onboard connectivity to its passengers. This proposed upgrade comes in time for the carrier to start offering first-class services on board. While the potential of introducing in-flight Wi-Fi was only floated around earlier this week, the fact that the carrier will introduce a first-class cabin on board its aircraft was announced by the carrier earlier in the year. 

Ronnie Matheson joins the Loganair Executive Team as Chief Commercial Officer with effect from Monday 24th November. Matheson’s career began in Glasgow with British Airways in 1998, experience which spans 25 years and includes senior roles at leading aviation brands, including easyJet, Flybe, and most recently Blue Islands. Blue Islands collapsed last week as the Jersey government called in a debt the airline had been unable to repay. Liquidators Ernst and Young confirmed that around 100 staff were redundant.