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Worst Airlines over the Summer
Dubai based Emirates Airline is to invest UK£1.6 billion to retrofit over 120 planes with new interiors, offer more food options, and sustainability-focused choices.
A large portion of the investment will refurbish interiors, retrofit cabins with new or reupholstered seats, add new panelling, flooring and other cabin features. The recently announced Premium Economy cabins will also be installed, which is scheduled for roll out in November.
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The airline is adding vegan dishes and new desert options in all cabin classes on pre-order, to cater to the growing numbers of customers pursuing this lifestyle.
First class travellers will have access to cinema snacks like salted popcorn. Meanwhile, passengers will soon be able to tailor make their movie experience pre-flight and then sync it with the on-board entertainment system once on board.
Emirates only operates international services, has seen a 91% jump in revenue to UK£13.2 billion for the year ended 31 March 2022 as passenger numbers tripled to 19.6 million. It filled 58.6% of seats flown, up from 44.3% the year before, while the number of destinations served increased from 120 at the start of the financial year to more than 140 as of 31 March 2022.
GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY TO BE A REALITY
In a global world, more and more demand for internet access is needed, but systems are slow to cope with growing demand across the entire world. It is an important undertaking as by making broadband widely accessible to underserved segments of society it helps to reduce poverty, improve standards of living and is central to economic growth.
Where terrestrial broadband cannot reach, SATCOM can fill the gap. Satellite communications providers and OEMs are working to develop products to take advantage of this huge growth opportunity. Companies such as Boeing, which is providing satellites to European service provider SES for their O3b (other 3 billion) constellation, and SpaceX, with their rapidly growing Starlink constellation, are leading the way to helps billions of people to get connected. In order to meet the need and opportunity, satellite communication providers and OEMs plan to increase capacity bandwidth by at least 20x over the next 5 years. Boeing, OneWeb, Viasat, SpaceX and others are expected to add over 100,000 satellites in the next decade. As such, the industry is changing the way in how it designs satellite systems, creates significant churn, as well as for new innovative approaches.
The major issue face them all is power. New satellite communication solutions need high-performance processing, which means more power is required. Limited space and weight budgets place a premium on advanced power solutions with high density and high efficiency if these advanced communications systems are to succeed.
WORST AIRLINES OVER THE SUMMER
Most people who chose to fly on holiday this year, experienced chaos, delays and cancellations at many European airports. The top 5 worst airlines for flight cancellations among 19 carriers around the world were Virgin Australia, KLM, Air New Zealand, Qantas and Lufthansa. In comparison and it is no surprise, that Singapore Airlines was named as the best airline as it cancelled just 0.1% of its scheduled flights.
Having made redundant thousands of staff across all areas of their business, due to the pandemic, the airline industry totally failed to re-hire these key personnel in time for the return of travel.
Above were the top 5, but the list is still long of airlines making cancellations. British Airways is still cancelling flights and means that from April until the end of the summer season it would have cancelled almost 30,000 flights.
MICE & TOURISM around the World
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