- The high flying food machine
  24 July 2011 – No major U.S. carrier offers free food on domestic flights anymore, says Raymond Kollau. Read more »
- Ground-Level Tastings of the Best Food in the Sky
  4 May 2011 – “This is an example of experiential marketing,” Raymond Kollau said. Read more »
- Vegas airline proposes rolling dice on fares
  10 March 2011 – “This is a novel way to pass some of the risk in fuel cost to customers,” Raymond Kollau said. Read more »
- Attention-seeking airlines: innovations and gimmicks
  28 Feb. 2011 – “It’s a way for an airline to be noticed in a cluttered marketplace,” says airlinetrends.com. Read more »
- Airlines take luxury to a new altitude
  17 Jan. 2010 – According to airlinetrends.com, the roomiest new business-class seat is on Singapore Airlines Read more »
- Debate over cell phones on flights continues
  13 Jan. 2011 – “Emirates is the airline everyone is watching,” said Raymond Kollau, founder of airlinetrends.com. Read more »

Trends we are tracking

At airlinetrends.com we are continuously monitoring the global aviation industry for commercial innovations in response to changing cultural, technological, and economic trends. If you would like to know more about our services, please or visit our Services page.

Examples of the trends we are tracking:

Austere Travelers
Ancillary Revenues
Authenticity
Brand Spaces
BRIC’s
BYO (Bring Your Own)
Business Class-only
Co-Branding
Co-Creation
Connectivity
CSR / CSI
Customer Experience Management
Democratic Travel
Digital Nomads
Digital Natives
Diversity
Dynamic Packaging
Eco Eco-System
Feeder Businesses
Female Flyers
Flying Families
Format Competition
FST TRCK
Future: Tense
Globesity
Green Skies

Gulf Gullivers
Hi-Speed Rail
Hometrotting
Local / Provenance
Long-haul, Low-cost
Mass Globetrotting
N-11’s
New Frontiers
Newbie Travellers
No-Frills Chic
Perkonomics
Personalization
Planevertising
Productivity on the Road
Prosumers
(Post)-crisis formats
Real-Time
Remote Check-in
Right Sizing
Self-Service Nation
Signs of the Economic Times
Short-haul Convergence
Social Media
Sustainable Travel
Status Stories
Storytelling

Sympvertising
The Attention Economy
The Conversation Economy
The Death of Distance
The Expectation Economy
The Experience Economy
The New Normal
The Redemption Dilemma
The Social Flight
The Surprise Economy
The Third Screen
Third Spaces
Trading Up & Down
Transparency
Transumers
Travel 2.0
Traveling Lite
Tryvertising
(Un)bundling
Upgradia
Value Players
Virtual Connecting
WHOP’s

Several of the trends listed above are courtesy of trendwatching.com. Airlinetrends.com founder Raymond Kollau also works as a trend analyst with trendwatching.com.