enRoute, Air Canada's award-winning in-flight magazine, can put another feather in its proverbial cap: world's best in-flight. The good folk at CNNgo surveyed the world's best in-flight magazines and said ...MORE
Spafax Canada celebrated May Day in its own fashion by announcing the release of an enhanced IFE selection on Air Canada (read the press release here) by doubling the amount ...MORE
There has been much gnashing and jawing over Facebook's recent purchase of Instagram. On one side, you have the Instagram loyalists who feel a bit betrayed by the whole matter. ...MORE
At our London headquarters, Spafax publishes inflight entertainment (IFE) guides for numerous airline brands, and it’s always good to receive positive feedback following market research. Despite increasingly sophisticated onscreen menus ...MORE
This isn't a new idea. But it's something that is floating around in so many different places that it's starting to feel true. In the content business, I've always told ...MORE
Brand managers (or guardians – that’s a much grander sounding word, no?) are busier than ever. And sometimes they’re confused. They should be. Brand guardians are having a tough time ...MORE
As the provider of content for British Airways (BA), scheduling, promotion, brand and packaging for their in-flight entertainment services, Spafax is responsible for updating and rolling-out new content as they ...MORE
You're on a quick flight. An hour to decompress before the start of the day. So you decide to relax with some new music. But you don't want to start ...MORE
Q&A with enRoute Editor in Chief Ilana Weitzman, about the recent relaunch of Air Canada’s enRoute magazine Q: What’s the backstory on the relaunch? IW: In October, Air Canada’s enRoute magazine relaunched ...MORE
Spafax is pleased to announce the release of our new enRoute Eats app. A dining guide to Canada’s best restaurants, high and low, this app leverages the fantastic content amassed ...MORE
Sparksheet, Spafax’s award-winning media and marketing magazine, has been nominated for eight more international awards – seven Canadian Online Publishing Awards and one Eddie Award. Sparksheet is a finalist in ...MORE
When the Sparksheet team lands in Seattle next week to cover the 2011 APEX Expo, it will be a “back to our roots” moment for us. Sparksheet launched in June ...MORE
We’ve recently established an office in Frankfurt to service our Lufthansa Group business (in partnership with Spafax London and Spafax Orange County) and we’re now fully staffed... For now! So a ...MORE
Working for Air Canada’s enRoute magazine, I get to see a lot of hotels. During a recent trip to New York, a friend of mine pointed out the cute little ...MORE
We’re proud of our role as innovators in the world of inflight entertainment and the people behind that reputation. That’s why we’re really pleased to announce that Sue Pinfold, Executive ...MORE
Sparksheet, our multiplatform media and marketing magazine has jumped to yet another platform. Sparksheet’s award-winning content can now be consumed in the form of an iPad app! The app was designed ...MORE
I am happy to announce the arrival of Karen Mahmalji, as our new Director of Operations here in Orange, California. Karen will oversee our growing operational and technical teams in ...MORE
Inflight entertainment doesn’t just keep customers entertained, it contributes considerably to overall satisfaction and builds loyalty. The following airlines – many of them Spafax clients – are recipients of Skytrax ...MORE
Spafax got its start in the Inflight Entertainment business and one can argue that IFE is, in many ways, the precursor of custom content. Long before “custom publishing” and “content ...MORE
I’m pleased to announce that Spafax publications and media produced for clients LAN Airlines, Air Canada, Bombardier Business Aviation and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts were awarded a record 19 awards ...MORE
Way back in 2009 Niall McBain and the Spafax Board identified the need for a blog. From that request, Sparksheet was born as the online magazine about marketing to the ...MORE
Spafax announces the opening of a brand new office in Frankfurt to service Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines & Austrian Airlines We’re pleased to announce the addition of a new Spafax ...MORE
Niall McBain, CEO of Spafax, announces strategic changes to the Spafax senior management team in London ANN WILLIS appointed Managing Director, Spafax Specialized Networks and Development Ann Willis has been appointed to ...MORE
Spafax Director of Sales and Marketing Solutions Brandon Kirk shares his thoughts on helping brands connect with audiences on multiple platforms - and how magazines are becoming “mega-brands” in this new video ...MORE
Sparksheet, enroute.aircanada.com and enRoute magazine head up a list of 14 nominations garnered by Spafax media for this year’s National Magazine Awards, Canada’s Academy Awards of the magazine ...MORE
File this under “and now for something completely different!”. For over 25 years we’ve worked for the best airline brands in the world, from British Airways to Air Canada to Singapore ...MORE
Spafax Luxury Brands Division (Montreal) graphic designer Guillaume Briere may spend his days helping put together award-winning layouts on magazines such as Fairmont, Mercedes and Bombardier Experience - but he’s ...MORE
I remember the excitement when I was younger when I made the awesome discovery in the pool, that by launching off my brother's shoulders I could achieve Flight! For me becoming part ...MORE
The worlds of media, publishing and communications have changed immeasurably in just a few short years. And the consumers of media have changed too with mobile devices altering the way ...MORE
Deborah Mogelberg, Directora de Ventas, Spafax Medios y Publicidad Ltda. (Spafax Chile) Last week I talked about how Chile’s growing economy is creating “national champion brands” who are setting their sights ...MORE
In our quest to create the very best entertainment experiences for our clients and their customers, our London entertainment team have recently struck a deal between British Arts and Entertainment ...MORE
Promotions and changes at the Spafax Orange (California) Operation I’d like to introduce some exciting changes to the Spafax leadership in our Orange, CA office. Dominic Green has been promoted to Senior ...MORE
Home on the range? Introducing the Spafax DirecTV team. The kind of rapid growth we’ve seen at our operation in Chile has created a bit of a space problem at ...MORE
The first Spafax produced issue of DirecTV’s ACCESS magazine for South America is out and it’s already turning heads with a stunning cover featuring El Cisne Negro’s Mila ...MORE
Those who know me or follow me on twitter know that I’m a proponent of emerging markets in general and of Chile in particular. There’s an energy here that can ...MORE
IN magazine and digital media, and enRoute magazine won a total of 6 awards at the recently held Folio Awards in New York City. IN, produced by our Santiago office for ...MORE
What do enRoute.aircanada.com, Brides.com, Seventeen.com and Vogue.com have in common? They’re all finalists in Min Online’s Best of the Web Awards in the Best Relaunch: Consumer category. According to Spafax online ...MORE
Two Spafax publications (Fairmont and enRoute) were nominated for P&G Awards and enRoute ended up doing quite well, winning two awards overall. The P&G Awards are normally dominated by fashion ...MORE
We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all our friends, clients, partners, advertisers, readers and viewers Happy Holidays and a prosperous, peaceful new year. Check back in with us ...MORE
This December the Spafax-produced Aeromexico Clásica audio program will feature an exclusive interview with Alondra de la Parra, the young, modern classical superstar conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the ...MORE
From guest lecturing at colleges and universities to volunteering on industry committees and boards, we believe it’s important to contribute to the development of a strong publishing industry in Canada ...MORE
We’re proud to announce that we’ve been awarded the contract to publish ACCESS, DirecTV’s monthly entertainment magazine in Chile, Argentina, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Every month, we’ll be producing ...MORE
At a ceremony last night at The Water Club in New York attended by Spafax Publisher Lyne Farley, the Custom Content Council awarded 10 Pearl Awards for Excellence in Custom ...MORE
We’re proud of our role in helping launch Royal Jordanian’s new SiT AVOD entertainment system from Zodiac Aerospace on their A340 aircraft operating to the United States. Our service included: creating ...MORE
onAir contributor Michele Peterson’s January 2009 article “On the French Caribbean Rum Trail” won the award for Best Travel Feature Article in English at the Carribbean Tourism Media Awards. ...MORE
Custom publications like Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts’ Fairmont Magazine aren’t just a good read – they’re also known for the excellence of their art direction, ...MORE
Alongside an extensive music CD collection, British Airways also offer their passengers an impressive Spoken Word library as part of their Audio Inflight Entertainment. Spafax have exclusively secured bespoke BBC Radio ...MORE
So you think Spafax is all about movies on airplanes and award-winning custom publications? Well, we are – but our important portfolio of digital media products is growing by leaps ...MORE
Look no further than Penfold’s Dining Guide app, brought to you by enRoute magazine. In partnership with Penfolds Wines of Australia, enRoute has extended the popular cross-Canada Dining Guide franchise into ...MORE
Spafax’s Al St. Germain was a featured speaker and session moderator at the 2010 Chinese Inflight Entertainment and Connectivity conference in Shanghai last month. The conference was co-hosted by the ...MORE
Our UK publishing team has re-launched Royal Wings, the inflight magazine for Royal Jordanian Airlines. The refreshed design approach is clean and sophisticated, while the revitalised editorial covers travel, lifestyle and ...MORE
Our publishing teams in Santiago, Chile, and Montreal, Canada have won 11 Magnum Opus Awards for the editorial and design excellence of enRoute magazine and IN magazine. We’re especially excited about ...MORE
Not only does Spafax produce award-winning inflight entertainment content across print, video and digital platforms – we deliver it too! Our new digital IFE content provisioning and loading service for Air ...MORE
Now here's something to crow about: enRoute's January 2010 cover, featuring a live rooster (yes, he's real), won the coveted award for Cover Photography at the recent Applied Arts Awards ...MORE
Paula Fontaine and our Santiago publishing team have outdone themselves with in-Wines, the only magazine about the South American “wine lifestyle”. It’s distributed exclusively in Premium Business Class aboard LAN ...MORE
Masthead magazine, Canada’s industry journal for all things magazine-related, recently released its annual Top 50 Magazines report in which Air Canada’s enRoute held its 8th place ranking among English language ...MORE
It’s high time we launched a Spafax blog. Well, a second blog, actually. We’ve already got Sparksheet – good ideas about content, media and marketing. In less than a year, it’s ...MORE
Building on the success of in magazine and its onboard media offerings, LAN Airlines has launched a publication all about wine and the wine lifestyle. The first edition of in-Wines includes ...MORE
enRoute online, the website for Air Canada’s inflight publication, is excited to announce a newly updated and redesigned website. Along with the new look enRoute online unveils several editorial changes, ...MORE
via Radio Survivor: Often music is thrust upon us in public places, from elevators, to telephone hold music, to restaurants. Sometimes it’s amazing and notable, but when it’s bad, it can ...MORE
Spafax publications won 4 awards at the recent NATJA awards. One of the world’s leading providers of custom media, Spafax has long distinguished itself for the quality of its publications. Photographer ...MORE
enRoute announces two new additions to their staff. Nathalie Cusson has joined as Art Director of enRoute magazine. She is the former Art Director at Glow magazine. Prior to joining ...MORE
Sparksheet is coming to an iPad or Kindle near you. The international media and marketing blog, published by custom-content company Spafax, has launched its first eBook, The Best of Sparksheet. ...MORE
enRoute Air Canada’s award-winning inflight publication, recently announced readership numbers for 2008. Published by Spafax Canada, one of the world’s largest providers of custom media and inflight entertainment, enRoute (enroute.aircanada.com) ...MORE
Spafax publications won an astounding 14 awards at the recent NATJA awards. One of the world’s leading providers of custom media, Spafax has long distinguished itself for the quality of ...MORE
Canadian original series ZOS: Zone of Separation, co-executive produced by Paul Gross, to debut on Air Canada flights (December 10, 2008 – Toronto, Canada) – Astral Media’s The Movie Network (eastern ...MORE
On November 17, Spafax Canada publications won an unprecedented nine Pearl Awards honouring excellence in custom publishing in North America. Awarded every year by the Custom Publishing Council (CPC), the ...MORE
Youmna Tannous has joined Spafax as IFE Manager, Dubai. Youmna’s career has encompassed various aspects of inflight entertainment over the last 5 years, and she has also worked in front ...MORE
Spafax has been awarded a new long-term contract with Royal Jordanian Airlines to provide all Western IFE content. Previously servicing the airline with video content, media sales and the publishing ...MORE
2006 was a golden year for Spafax. Its publications and products won 38 major international awards for editorial, artistic and IFE excellence. Awards were won by Air Canada’s in-flight publication ...MORE
Thomas Cook and Spafax have entered into a broad partnership to publish Air, Thomas Cook’s inflight magazine. The magazine will be re-launched from April 2006 with a complete re-design and ...MORE
Qantas has appointed Spafax to provide IFE Feature Film Programming Acquisition Support Services following a competitive bid. Spafax will provide support services for movie programming including recommendations, negotiation and operational ...MORE
Spafax said thank you to all its clients, friends, staff and colleagues in the industry at the WAEA this year. The Side Hotel in Hamburg was the venue for the ...MORE
Qatar Airways has appointed inflight entertainment specialist Spafax to supply all of its on-board video content. Spafax will provide a service which includes programming, strategy, movie and TV acquisition, scheduling ...MORE
Qatar Airways has appointed Spafax to supply and schedule its on-board movie and television content, starting in January 2005. Spafax will provide a turnkey service which includes acquisition, scheduling, production ...MORE
LAN’s in-flight magazine, in, recently won a Gold medal at the 2004 Ozzie Awards, known as the Oscars of the magazine design industry. The 2004 Ozzie Awards ceremony was recently held ...MORE
China Airlines has re-appointed Spafax to supply all its movies following a competitive bid. Spafax will provide a full programming service for movies including strategy, scheduling and operational fulfilment across ...MORE
Singapore Airlines has appointed Spafax to supply and schedule its on-board television content, starting in January 2005. Spafax has a long history of serving Singapore Airlines in the areas of ...MORE
ABC News today announced an agreement with Delta Air Lines to provide news programming for Delta Air Lines’ millions of domestic and international passengers. Spafax Inflight Entertainment negotiated the agreement ...MORE
Spafax is proud to announce its new media partnership with Lan, South America’s fastest growing and most dynamic airline. This multi-year agreement is based on Spafax’s branded “Total Media” service ...MORE
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