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Update #22: Eurostar’s new trains, WestJet’s new owners, American’s new A321XLRs, Emirates’ new accessibility options, Finnair’s new seat covers, and more…

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By John Walton Oct 25, 2025 10 min read
The Lufthansa Allegris business class cabin in greys and blues, with the podcast logo on top.

Listen now: 40,000 Feet podcast #8: How do you solve a problem like Lufthansa?

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By Gareth Edwards Oct 24, 2025 1 min read
Cathay's The Pier First lounge in mid-century modern style, with the Update logo superimposed.

Update #21: Cathay revamps its top-tier loyalty offer, plus your passenger experience news filter this week

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By John Walton Oct 17, 2025 8 min read
A billboard outside Lufthansa's Allegris launch with the business cabin and "Individual spaces for everyone: discover the huge variety of choices with the all-new Lufthansa Allegris"

A coda for Allegris: Lufthansa’s fleet and seat strategy problems, from its Group Capital Markets Day, Part 2

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By John Walton Oct 16, 2025 26 min read

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Rendering of the MAEVE Jet, a T-tail rear open-rotor engined aircraft.

MAEVE pivots startup aircraft to 5-abreast, 76–100-seater open-rotor hybrid-electric jet

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By John Walton Aug 1, 2025 13 min read
The front end of a pair of studio class seats in burgundy, black and beige

Collins looks to modularity in seating platform and production lines as new solutions to thorny problems

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By John Walton Jun 15, 2025 9 min read
A spacious, red-brown pair of front row business suites with lots of room

Studio class suites: inside the airline and seatmaker front-row, business-plus arms race

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By John Walton May 25, 2025 15 min read
View down a runway, blue skies overhead.

Why we write — and how you can support our new aviation journalism model

By John Walton May 23, 2025 5 min read
Interior, airport lounge, wood-panelled walls, dark blue velvet sofas, bar beyond, Update logo superimposed.

Update #20: BA’s new lounges, China-US Russia airspace ban, new routes for Air Canada & Air Transat, Alaska-Hawaiian product renaming, and more…

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By John Walton Oct 12, 2025 12 min read
An overhead shot of an A330neo cabin, front section, without centre bins.

Pro Readout: Airbus’ services market forecast predicts drop in demand for seats and cabins “modifications and upgrades” business

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By John Walton Oct 10, 2025 11 min read
A closeup shot on a brown headrest with blue seats and brown headrests beyond, with the Update logo.

Update #19: American’s regional refit, 777X delays, SAS Eurobiz, Geven Boeing linefit, Thai sells Virgin business as premium economy, and more…

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By John Walton Oct 5, 2025 10 min read
A Lufthansa A350 on the stand at Munich with other LH planes behind.

How do you solve a problem like Lufthansa? Airline, brand and passenger insights from its group Capital Markets Day, Part 1

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By John Walton Oct 4, 2025 23 min read
Update 18: WestJet 737 refurbs, Fiji Airways & amenity kits, Boeing & the FAA, Ryanair & boarding passes, and Delta 44-first seat A321neos

Update 18: WestJet 737 refurbs, Fiji Airways & amenity kits, Boeing & the FAA, Ryanair & boarding passes, and Delta 44-first seat A321neos

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By John Walton Sep 29, 2025 8 min read
A passenger in business class receives a drink from, presumably, a flight attendant.

What the FOX: Lufthansa’s Future Onboard Experience soft product is damnation by faint PaxEx

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By John Walton Sep 28, 2025 7 min read
Rendering: The rear-engined Maeve Jet in the sky, with the Update logo in front

Update #17: Maeve signs with SkyWest and Delta, ATR aims for the US, IFC for DHC, and Air Tahiti Nui’s “new” premium economy

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By John Walton Sep 21, 2025 8 min read
The Air Côte d’Ivoire A330neo in orange-pink light at sunset in Toulouse

Air Côte d’Ivoire goes long-haul and high-ambition with new A330neo and studio class La First

By John Walton Sep 17, 2025 19 min read
Air Canada A321XLR in flight, with the Update logo on top

Update #16: Air Canada’s A321XLR, Lufthansa centralises, 777X delays, Delta’s 50% premium revenue milestone, and more…

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By John Walton Sep 14, 2025 9 min read
Closeup, premium economy seat. A bar with the placard "NO seat / NO stowage" (also in French).

Pro Readout: Air Côte d’Ivoire flies A330neo home with rows 2 & 3 of premium economy blocked with certification problems

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By John Walton Sep 8, 2025 7 min read
Update #15: Ryanair's big AENA fight, Austrian's Dubai Deal, Qatar's AirAsia-ish A321neo, Air France's Expliseats, and new Swiss service

Update #15: Ryanair's big AENA fight, Austrian's Dubai Deal, Qatar's AirAsia-ish A321neo, Air France's Expliseats, and new Swiss service

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By John Walton Sep 6, 2025 10 min read
A stone-and-gold lounge welcome desk, with the podcast logo on top

Listen now: 40,000 Feet podcast #7: our end-of-summer roundup, "KBiz Comfort Hunters"

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By John Walton Sep 5, 2025 1 min read
Lufthansa business suite seats in grey and blue with hint of brown on display on a stand

Pro Readout: an update on Lufthansa Allegris, including plans for the 787, 777, 747-8, A350 & A380

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By John Walton Sep 2, 2025 9 min read
Interior, airline cabin. A large black recliner seat with yellow trim, with the Update logo superimposed.

The Up Front Update #14: Spirit, Lufthansa, Amtrak, LOT, American Airlines and more

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By John Walton Aug 31, 2025 9 min read
Interior, lounge. Six people celebrate behind a sign that says "Korean Air Lounge Unveiling"

Korean Air takes the next step in its premiumisation with new Seoul Incheon lounges

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By John Walton Aug 27, 2025 10 min read

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