businesstraveller.comUPFRONT
FINNAIR
REVAMPS
MENU ON
SINGAPORE
FLIGHTS
FINNAIRrolled out a new series of
business class in-flight meals on its
Helsinki-Singapore route in conjunction
with the celebration of the eighth
anniversary of its flights to Singapore.
The new summer menu has been
developed with the airline’s Swedish
signature chef Tommy Myllymaki and
comprises an evening “Midnight Menu”
and a breakfast “Pre-Arrival” menu. Both
will run from June 6 until September 5.
The new Midnight Menu features two
starters – a salmon tartar with marinated
mushrooms, trout roe and fried onion, as
well as shrimp and chive quiche with aioli.
The four main courses include:
pan-seared perch with chilli-lemongrass
sauce, bok choy in Balinese sauce and
rice with sweet potatoes; braised beef
cheek with red wine sauce and mashed
potatoes with tru le, carrots and pearl
onions; salad with gravadlax (salmon) or
smoked chicken; and Finnish creamy
salmon soup.
These dishes are then rounded o with
a plate of Kikorangi blue cheese and brie,
or ice cream, petit fours, fresh fruits and
co ee or tea.
Meanwhile, the Pre-Arrival breakfast
menu will o er: asparagus and feta
cheese sou lé, bean cannellini in tomato
sauce, mushrooms and creamy spinach;
and Belgian wa le with apple and raisin
compote and crème Anglaise. Porridge,
granola, yoghurt and sandwiches can also
be ordered on request.finnair.comAIRBUSis giving aviation enthusiasts the chance to furnish their homes with
striking furniture items recycled – or “upcycled” – from end-of-life aircraft parts.
The “A Piece in the Sky” initiative was showcased at Airbus’s Innovation Days,
held at the Leadership University Centre in Toulouse in May.
Airbus employees Anaïs Mazaleyrat and Jérémy Brousseau thought up the
innovative idea at an internal training programme at Airbus’s Leadership University
in Toulouse in 2017. It was then picked up by Airbus BizLab, the company’s global
network to support start-ups in 2018.
There’s currently a small pre-order collection available online, with delivery
scheduled for January 2020 – though regular readers will know that deliveries are
frequently delayed from aircraft manufacturers.
There is also a collection featuring products with limited supply.airbus.comMEMBERS of the International Air
Transport Association (IATA) have
committed to improve bag handling
through the global deployment of Radio
Frequency Identi cation tags.AIRBUS LAUNCHES UPCYCLED
FURNITURE COLLECTION
At IATA’s Annual General Meeting
in Seoul, the group of 290 airlines
resolved to transition to the use of
bag tags with Radio Frequency
Identi cation (RFID) inlays, and
introduce new processes to prevent
mishandling.
RFID labels contain passive chips
that transmit information in response
to antennae through radio-frequency
electromagnetic elds. Read rates are
99.98 per cent accurate and the chips
cannot be as easily concealed or
damaged as a traditional bar code.
Bags can also be identi ed and
tracked without human intervention,
making it easier to follow IATA’s
Resolution 753, which requires airlines
to track bags at four di erent points.
iata.orgJULY/AUGUST 2019IATA TO USE TECH TO
IMPROVE BAG HANDLING