Henning Bruns talks with Today’s World News 24 correspondent Humayun Kabir at the Paxia booth in Lisbon. (Photo courtesy of Today’s World News 24)
At World Aviation Festival 2026 in Lisbon, Henning Bruns told Today’s World News 24 how one connected platform, backed by AI grounded in real operational data, helps airlines cut waste, control catering spend, and get every flight loaded right.
Paxia is in Lisbon this week for World Aviation Festival 2026, October 13–15. On opening day, Today’s World News 24 published its interview with Henning Bruns, Senior Global Account Executive at Paxia, conducted by correspondent Humayun Kabir. Read the full interview on Today’s World News 24, or start with the highlights below.
Catering Is a Coordination Problem
Henning described airline catering as an international operation that spans airlines, caterers, suppliers, warehouses, and airport stations. Every flight needs the right quantities of meals, beverages, service equipment, and onboard supplies — delivered on time and loaded for the aircraft that’s actually operating the flight. When passenger numbers, aircraft assignments, or schedules change and that change doesn’t reach everyone, the cost lands somewhere downstream.
One System of Record, Seven Connected Modules
That’s the problem Paxia Cloud is built to solve. Its seven modules — Specifications, Schedules, Galleys, Orders, Invoices, Assets, and Insights — work from one shared set of data, so a change made in planning carries through to ordering and invoicing instead of being rekeyed from one system to the next. For airlines, Henning said, the payoff is tighter coordination with catering partners, less manual work, and fewer discrepancies.
AI Where It Earns Its Place
Henning also walked through where Paxia applies AI and operational analytics to planning and decision-making:
- Catering-load forecasting. Loading more meals than passengers will eat wastes food and adds weight to every flight. Forecasts built on passenger and route data help your planners order closer to real demand. See how AI forecasting reduces waste.
- Spend modeling. A clearer picture of where catering spend goes gives your leadership team a firmer basis for management decisions.
- Unusual billing and consumption patterns. Paxia surfaces mismatches between what was ordered and what a supplier invoiced, so your finance team can investigate potential overcharges. See how invoice reconciliation works.
He was also clear that results vary. Fleet mix, passenger demand, route characteristics, catering contracts, and how an airline operates today all shape the outcome — which is why the Paxia ROI calculator starts from your own numbers.
Trusted by 18+ Airlines
Paxia Cloud supports 18+ airlines, including Delta, British Airways, Emirates, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, and Japan Airlines, across 4,200+ aircraft and 5.38 million flights a year. Most recently, Etihad Airways selected the full Paxia Cloud suite to transform its end-to-end catering operations.
Read the Full Interview
Our thanks to Humayun Kabir and Today’s World News 24 for the conversation. Read the full interview for Henning’s complete walkthrough of the platform. And if you’d like to see what Paxia Cloud would look like across your operation, Request a Demo.