SEASON ONE
Dive into the world of luxury family travel with Carmen Sognonvi, renowned travel influencer and founder of Top Flight Family who travels the world with her husband and 2 children. With over a million followers on social media, they captivate audiences worldwide sharing their expertise and insights. Carmen will share the highlights of travelling with her children and provide us with some insights into the contrasting cabin environments that merely tolerate kids versus those that wholeheartedly welcome them.
Sharing her thoughts on the strengths of the airline industry and emphasizing the significance of design and aesthetics, we also discuss how expressing cultural identity in the onboard product can elevate the entire travel experience.
Imagine embarking on a journey of a lifetime, where every moment is filled with awe-inspiring experiences and unparalleled service. TCS World Travel specializes in curating all-inclusive trips that deliver precisely that. They have carefully crafted their offerings to provide meaningful adventures in unique destinations across the globe all while flying in luxury private jets.
Ryan Dai, Digital Experience Manager at TCS World Travel talks to us about the luxury jet world tours. We’ll hear how inflight entertainment and connectivity together with the digital technology plays an integral role in the overall ultra-premium passenger experience and the operations of TCS World Travel.
In the age of constant connectivity, staying connected even at 30,000 feet has become a top priority for modern-day travelers and inflight Wi-Fi has become a game-changer.
For the past five years, Inmarsat has been conducting passenger experience surveys. In the recently released 2022 results, they surveyed 11,000 passengers across the globe. Their findings indicate that passenger desires and beliefs have changed. In this episode, I am joined by Neale Faulkner, Regional Vice President at Inmarsat Aviation, to deep dive into some of the findings.
History offers us examples of innovators who have gone on to prove everyone wrong in their respective industries and perhaps Alejandro Nunez Vicente will be a name associated with disrupting aircraft seating norms. With an idea that sparked in his parents basement, started off as a University project, that has led him all the way to the global Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany, Alejandro is the founder and CEO of Chaise Longue Economy Seat and talks about his journey, the challenges of pushing the boundaries when designing airplane seats as well as teasing some news on what's coming up next!
"Airlines of the World", is the television documentary currently being created and produced, with the expectation of release towards the end of 2023. It focuses on the global airline industry, past, present and future. Patrick Weil, Managing Director of Jennuinn Films and Senior Executive Producer and Creator of the documentary series takes us behind-the-scenes sharing stories including the recreation of the aircraft interiors and passenger experiences of yesteryear down to the finest details.
Lukas Kaestner from Hamburg Aviation and President of the Crystal Cabin Awards Association talks with our host about some of the innovation highlights, themes and trends we see emerging from this year’s Crystal Cabin Awards shortlist that was just announced earlier today from Hamburg Germany.
Founder of GreenerGrass.com Jeb Brooks is a popular social media YouTube personality with 512 flights over the past 5 years under his belt. With first-hand experience of the onboard products and amenities in premium cabins on airlines including American, Delta, United, Singapore, Spirit, Emirates, Qatar, Korean, Air France, Qantas, and more, Jeb shares his feedback on all aspects of the inflight experience. He will also talk about which airline he believes has the best business class seat in the sky and why.
David Kondo, Head of Customer Experience and Product Design - Finnair. David shares a complete behind-the-scenes account of the design, development and implementation of Finnair’s multi award-winning new international long-haul cabin experience including the all new AirLounge business class seat.
Lukas Kaestner from Hamburg Aviation gives us some insight into the aviation community that covers the whole end to end of an aircraft in Hamburg, Germany. As President of the Crystal Cabin Association, he also shares some insights and tips for submitting your innovation to the Crystal Cabin Awards.
Welcome to the first episode of ‘On Your Flight Today’. This episode is an introduction by our host Corinne Streichert, sharing her vision, inspiration and goals for the show as well as some background information on her experiences working in aviation for the past two decades. The podcast will explore the latest developments in aircraft interiors, inflight entertainment and connectivity as well as the overall inflight passenger experience.