Hello readers — John here, and I’m delighted to bring you our RedCabin reading list.
We’re excited for the summit, pleased to be RedCabin media partners, and looking forward to seeing so many of you next week in Germany.
Keep an eye out for our special pre-RedCabin podcast episode coming out this weekend, featuring accessibility advocate Mary Doyle, who will be speaking at RedCabin this coming week.
Like all our work on accessibility, it will be free to access and will come to our subscribers’ podcast feeds as well. To listen online, and to pull our podcasts into your preferred podcast app, head to our dedicated podcasts page.
Five hot topics to for your reading list (and podcast queue) in advance of RedCabin
1: Sit down with a coffee and our most recent state of the industry analysis, covering the major trends and trend-bucking innovations that are hot topics in the airline passenger experience business right now.
2: Accessibility and the way the industry is improving how it serves disabled travellers look set to be a major topic at this year’s RedCabin, so don’t miss our on-the-ground photos and analysis of the latest key innovations in the accessibility sphere.
3: The Lufthansa Group is hosting this RedCabin, and their people will be talking about their products a fair amount. Check out our big picture anlaysis about what’s going on in the Lufthansa Group (part 1, which will also lead you to part 2) — and, for further depth, our 40,000 Feet podcast special episode on Lufthansa.
4: Cabin-wise, looking at the summit agenda, you can look forward to hearing about the new blue cabins on board Lufthansa’s long-haul low-cost spinoff Discover and its largely Luft-hands-me-down fleet, the group’s Swiss leisure airline Edelweiss’ handful of A350s, and Eurowings’ niche recliner business class.
5: We can’t talk cabins these days without discussing certification blockers and delayed deliveries, including to Lufthansa’s 787 Allegris cabins, which are flying with some Allegris business seats still blocked off as a result.
Of course, there’s much more to read across The Up Front, so we’re delighted to join with RedCabin to offer you a free month of our top-tier Business subscription to unlock all our work.
Use the code REDCABINBUSINESS discount to upgrade your existing subscription, or new subscribers can sign up directly via our code link.
See you in Seeheim!
For your trip, allow us to recommend our podcasts, including our supply chain-focussed series The Chain. We’ll have our podcasting gear with us at RedCabin, so if you’d like to sit down to talk about what you’re up to, just drop me an email: john@theupfrontgroup.com.
One last tip: if you’re taking the Seeheim Shuttle from Frankfurt Airport, do book your place on the shuttle — and make a note that it departs from bus stop 23 at Terminal 1A’s arrivals level.
See you there!
John Walton, editor in chief
