Inflight magazine
An inflight magazine (or in-flight magazine) is a free magazine distributed via the seats of an airplane by an airline company.
Overview
Many airline companies produce inflight magazines to provide details about their fleet, as well as articles about destinations or other interesting information.
Inflight publishing is an unusual niche in the magazine world. Airline titles have minimal distribution costs, and readership figures come from existing passenger traffic. Most airlines use external publishers to produce their magazines,[1] and Ink is currently the world’s leading company in this sector.[2]
More than 80% of passengers read the magazines airlines place in front of them, and readers average around 30 minutes a flight with the magazines, according to Arbitron.[1] Despite the challenges facing the publishing industry this is a healthy sector and on a large scale, inflight magazines have suffered less than magazines overall.[1]
While the quality of inflight magazines varies widely, their upscale, captive readership appeals to advertisers, particularly luxury-goods makers targeting men.[1]
History and evolution
The first inflight magazine was that of Pan American World Airways, whereas the longest running inflight magazine is KLM's Holland Herald,[3] first published in January 1966.[4] The inflight market has grown these past few years[5] and there are currently over 150 inflight magazines titles.[6]
Moreover, since the birth of digital technology, most airlines are distributing their magazines digitally via tablet computer applications, or over the internet.[7]
Publishers
Among specialized publishers are:
- Ink is a global media company specialising in content and advertising for the travel sector, headquartered in London. The company works with 26 airline, rail and hotel partners worldwide (including American Airlines, United, easyJet, Iberia, Norwegian and Jetstar) with offices in London, Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Miami, Melbourne, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore. Ink produces 36 inflight magazines in 18 languages, magazine and airline mobile apps for their travel partners. Ink offer advertising across magazines, passenger travel documents (print-at home boarding passes, booking confirmation emails), in airline mobile apps and online properties. Their media channels reach over 670 million passengers every year.
- Spafax, Multinational editorial and content marketing company based in London, Montréal and Toronto with more than 70 clients around the world. Its 13 offices worldwide -London, Toronto, Montréal, Santiago, Lima, Dubai, Frankfurt, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, Miami, New York, California, Singapore- produce magazines and IFE products for clients such as British Airways, Air Canada, LAN, Malaysia Airlines, among others.
- MaXposure Media Group, which produces Shubh Yatra magzine for Air India, Spice Route magazine for SpiceJet Airlines, Vistara Magazine for Vistara Airline (JV between Tata Sons & Singapore Airlines). It has a sales representation in over 20 countries
- Stream, producing around 10 inflight magazine, including Flybe and CityJet
- Agency Fish, whose main client is Qatar Airways
- Diamond Agency producing Cloud 9 magazine for SeaPort Airlines and Wings of Alaska
- Motivate Publishing, which produces the inflight magazine for Emirates Airline, Open Skies and Emirates' First and Business Class magazine, Portfolio
- Cedar Communications, which produces British Airways High Life, First Life and Business Life
- G+J Corporate Editors, which produces Lufthansa Magazin, Lufthansa Woman's world and Lufthansa exclusive
- Lagardere France, whose main airline client is Air France
- Subcontinental Media Group, whose main airline clients are Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Bangladesh & Fly Africa Airlines in South Africa. It publishes Bihanga Magazine for Biman & Flyafrica.com Magazine for Fly Africa. It has own offices in Dhaka (Bangladesh), New Delhi, Kolkata in India and Johannesburg in South Africa. SMG has a sales network in over 15 key countries in Europe, Asia, Americas [8]
- Bentang Media Nusantara, which produces Lionmag for Lion Air, Wings for Wings Air and Batik for Batik Air
Specialized advertising agencies of Inflight magazines
- giO media (inflight specialist for Benelux, Cyprus and Middle East markets), representing, recommending and centralizing all aspects of Inflight media. It is working for over 75% of all the airlines worldwide, such as British Airways, Air France, KLM, United-Continental, Emirates and Virgin Australia[9]
- IMM International (inflight marketing bureau for France, Switzerland, UK, Italy and China markets), representing, recommending and centralizing all aspects of Inflight media. It works with 150 airlines worldwide (more than 200 magazines)[10]
List of inflight magazines
North America
Canada
- Air Canada : enRoute
- Westjet : UP!
- Air North : Yukon, North of Ordinary
- Air Transat: Atmosphere
- Porter Airlines : re:Porter
Mexico
- Aeroméxico : escala
- Mexicana de Aviación : VUELO (defunct)
- TAESA : Caminos (defunct)
- vivaAerobus : enVIVA
- Volaris : V de Volaris
USA
- AirTran Airways : GO (defunct)
- Alaska Airlines : Alaska Airlines Magazine
- American Airlines : American Way [11] / CL (Celebrated Living) - business class / NEXOS[12] - Latin American flights
- Continental Airlines : ContinentalPacific (defunct)
- Delta Air Lines : Sky Magazine
- Hawaiian Airlines : Hana Hou!
- Northwest Airlines : World Traveler (defunct)
- Pan American World Airways : Clipper Magazine (defunct)
- [SeaPort Airlines] : Cloud 9 magazine
- Southwest Airlines : Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine
- Spirit Airlines : Skylights
- United Airlines : Hemispheres [13] / Rhapsody [14] - 1st & Business Class magazine
- US Airways: US Airways magazine
South America
- Aerolíneas Argentinas : Alta
- LAN Airlines : in, inWines, inPremiere
- Aeroméxico : escala
- Grupo TACA : EXPLORE Magazine (defunct)
- Varig : Ícaro (defunct)
Europe
- Aegean Airlines : Blue
- Aer Lingus : Cara
- Aeroflot : Aeroflot / Aeroflot Premium / Aeroflot Style
- Adria Airways : Adria Airways Inflight Magazine
- airBaltic: Baltic Outlook
- Air Berlin : Air Berlin Magazine
- AirClub : AirClub Magazine [15]
- Air France : Air France Magazine (Bon Voyage)
- Air Moldova : Altitude Inflight Magazine
- Alitalia : Ulisse
- Blue Panorama Airlines : Mondo in Blue
- bmi : Voyager
- bmibaby : yeahbaby (defunct)
- British Airways : High Life / Business life - business class / First Life - first class
- Brussels Airlines : b.there! [16] / b.spirit! [17] - long haul
- Croatia Airlines: Croatia Magazine
- easyJet : easyJet Traveller [18]
- Finnair : Blue Wings
- Flybe Group PLC : Business Uncovered
- Germanwings : GW [19]
- Iberia : Ronda [20]/Excelente [21]
- Jet2.com: JetAway Magazine [22]
- KLM : Holland Herald
- LOT Polish Airlines: Kaleidoscope
- Lufthansa : Lufthansa Magazin / Woman's World / Lufthansa Exclusiv
- Martinair : M
- Monarch Airlines : Explorer
- Norwegian Air Shuttle : n Magazine [23]
- Nordstar : Летать легко (Easy to fly)
- PrivatAir : PrivatAir Magazine [24]
- Ryanair : Let's Go Magazine [25]
- S7 Airlines : S7 Magazine
- Scandinavian Airlines System : Scanorama / Scanorama Japanese / Scanorama Chinese
- TAP Air Portugal : UP
- TAROM : Insight / SkyLady
- Thomson Airways : Inflight[26]
- Thomas Cook : Thomas Cook Travel Magazine [27] / Thomas Cook Emporium [28]
- Turkish Airlines : Sky Life
- Wind Jet : Check-Out
- Wizz Air : Wizz Magazine [29]
Africa
- Air Algérie : Tassili
- Arik Air : Wings
- TAAG : Austral
- Egyptair : Horus
- Fly Africa : Fly Africa Magazine
- South African Airways : sawubona
- Ethiopian Airlines : selamta
Asia
- ANA : Wingspan
- AirAsia : Travel 3Sixty
- Air China: Wings of China
- Air India : Shubh Yatra Magazine [30]
- Air Macau : Air Macau magazine
- Air Mandalay : Air Mandalay - Golden Flight
- Bangkok Airways : Fah Thai [31]
- Batik Air : Batik
- Biman Bangladesh Airlines : Bihanga [32]
- Cathay Pacific : Discovery
- Cebu Pacific : Smile [33]
- China Airlines : Dynasty
- China Southern Airlines: NiHao (English), Gateway南方航空 (Chinese), Elite (Chinese)
- Citilink : Linked
- EVA Air : enVoyage
- Garuda Indonesia : Colours
- Korean Air : Morning Calm, Beyond
- Lion Air : Lionmag
- Japan Airlines : Skyward
- Jetstar Airways : Jetstar Asia [34] / Jetstar Japan [35]
- Malaysia Airlines : Going Places
- Nok Air : Jibjib
- Pakistan International Airlines : Humsafar
- PAL Express : La Isla
- Philippine Airlines : Mabuhay Magazine
- Singapore Airlines : SilverKris
- SpiceJet : SpiceRoute
- SriLankan Airlines : Serendib
- Sriwijaya Air : Sriwijaya
- Thai Airways International : Sawasdee
- Tiger Airways : Tiger Tales Asia [36] / Tiger Tales Philippines [37]
- TurboJet : Horizon
- Vietnam Airlines : Heritage (Monthly), Heritage Fashion (monthly starting 15th day of the month), and Heritage Japan (quarterly).
- Wings Air : Wings
- Zest Airways : Zest Magazine
Middle East
- EL AL : Atmosphere
- Emirates : Open Skies
- Etihad Airways : Etihad Inflight
- flynas : flynas magazine [38]
- Gulf Air : Gulf Life
- Jazeera Airways : J magazine
- Kuwait Airways : Al-Buraq
- Royal Jordanian : Royal Wings
- Safi Airways : Safi Airways Inflight Magazine
- Saudi Airlines : Ahlan Wasahlan
- Qatar Airways : Oryx
Oceania
- Air New Zealand : Kia Ora
- Jetstar Airways : Jetstar Australia [39]
- Tiger Airways: Tiger Tales Australia [40]
- Virgin Australia : Voyeur
- Qantas : QANTAS The Australian Way
Caribbean
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Daniel Michaels (27 November 2009). "Magazine publisher finds profit in airlines". The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ "Ink to release new report on how to communicate with passengers" (Press release). Ink. 12 January 2012.
- ↑ "Holland Herald Media Buyers Handbook 2012" (PDF). 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
- ↑ "Holland Herald". ink-live.com.
- ↑ "Inflight Connectivity Growing but Risks Remain » APEX Editor's Blog". Blog.apex.aero. 2011-08-01. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
- ↑ "The In-Flight Magazine Quick Reference PDF". Inflight-magazines.com. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
- ↑ "11 ways airlines are deploying the Apple iPad". airlinetrends.com. 8 August 2011.
- ↑ http://www.subcontinentalmedia.com
- ↑ "giO media". Gio-media.nl. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
- ↑ "Inflight Advertising & Inflight Media Marketing". IMM International. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
- ↑ "American Way Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Nexos Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Hemispheres Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Rhapsody Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "AirClub Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "b.there Magazine".
- ↑ "b.spirit Magazine".
- ↑ "Traveller — Inflight Magazine of easyJet".
- ↑ "Germanwings Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Ronda Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Excelente Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Jet2 Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Norwegian Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "PrivatAir Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "RyanAir Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ https://thomson.inbro.net/seeinsidebrochure/Thomson_Thomson-Airways-Inflight-Magazine-...-Shop-Travel.-Winter-2014:-Edition-2
- ↑ "Thomas Cook Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Thomas Cook Emporium Magazine".
- ↑ "Inflight Magazine of Wizz Air".
- ↑ http://www.maxposure.in
- ↑ "Bangkok Airways Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ http://www.subcontinentalmedia.com/inflight-magazines/bihanga-magazine/
- ↑ "Smile Magazine for Cebu Pacific".
- ↑ "Jetstar Asia Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Jetstar Japan Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Tiger Tales Asia Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Tiger Tales Philippines Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Flynas Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Jetstar Australia Inflight Magazine".
- ↑ "Tiger Tales Australia Inflight Magazine".