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A snowy glacial mountain landscape, with "The Up Front Christmas Quiz 2025" overlaid.

Our 2025 Christmas Quiz: the results and the answers

By John Walton Jan 2, 2026 2 min read
Interior, airport lounge, windowless area with temporary walls and industrial ceiling, muddy green and burgundy colouring.

Update #27: Lufthansa 787 Allegris update, Finnair to Melbourne, JAL’s A350 IROPS, temporary lounges and air travel in 1977

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By John Walton Dec 19, 2025 10 min read
A snowy glacial mountain landscape, with "The Up Front Christmas Quiz 2025" overlaid.

Enter now: The Up Front Christmas Quiz 2025

By John Walton Dec 18, 2025 3 min read
A RAVE IFE system, seat 32B, offering English, Arabic and Russian on the splash screen.

Update #26: Safran sells SPI/RAVE, Lufthansa Group “rebrands”, ANA’s 787 The Room FX, American’s A321XLR, and three interesting new lounges

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By John Walton Dec 12, 2025 10 min read
A shot straight down a wet runway with clouds overhead at Dublin Airport.

RedCabin Business Readout: the state of the industry: seat suppliers and cabin interiors

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By John Walton Dec 10, 2025 10 min read
Interior, TAP A321LR, economy cabin. Light grey seats, IFE screens, green seat covers

Update #25: TAP’s “premium economy”, Eurowings’ Berlin boost, A320 avionics and IndiGo’s meltdown, airport wheelchair “scams”, and airline design disasters

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By John Walton Dec 8, 2025 10 min read
large four engined seaplane just above the water

Bringing her home: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 5

By Gareth Edwards Dec 5, 2025 15 min read
A press image with galley inserts, trolleys and a reclining premium seat

40,000 Feet Podcast #10: why and how Jamco plans to integrate Iacobucci

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By John Walton Dec 4, 2025 1 min read
Closeup on an inward facing herringbone (Iberia/Thompson Solo) in beige on an A321neo

Update #24: New transatlantic narrowbodies, Air Canada’s big fleet rejig, more Lufthansa news, and the airline civility debate…

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By John Walton Nov 29, 2025 9 min read
People gathered around tables in a hangar with a large Delta airplane above them.

Free to listen: 40,000 Feet podcast #9: The pre-RedCabin Special

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By John Walton Nov 28, 2025 1 min read
A two-storey light industrial building with a red entry portico.

Business Readout: Safran risks French union disquiet about offshoring at its peril — especially at troubled Issoudun site

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By John Walton Nov 24, 2025 6 min read
Image: a cream-beige-and-brown staggered seat without doors, with the usual Emirates glossy burled wood aesthetic.

Safran plans to outsource Emirates seat production from France, US to Dubai as part of UAE manufacturing cluster push

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By John Walton Nov 24, 2025 13 min read
Interior, business class seat. Curtains descend from the bins on the right-hand side of the aircraft.

Update #23: Dubai orders, Ethiopian's Diamond, China Southern interiors, Qantas' new lounges, and LEVEL curtain questions…

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By John Walton Nov 22, 2025 9 min read
A Boeing 314 flying boat resting on the water.

Christmas in Sri Lanka: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 4

By Gareth Edwards Nov 21, 2025 7 min read
A view from an airplane window of some slightly snowy flat land with fields, with light clouds.

Six months on: reflections from The Up Front editor in chief

By John Walton Nov 21, 2025 4 min read

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