Book selection to rotate every two months
First theme is 'New Beginnings'
Interactive content for young passengers in the works
Trinity Airways announced Friday that it will launch a Flying Library service for business class passengers on medium- and long-haul routes starting Sunday.
The service is designed for passengers worn out by smartphones and tablets, giving them a chance to unwind with a physical book during their flight. Trinity will rotate its selection every two months around a new theme, curating titles across different genres.
The inaugural theme is "New Beginnings," reflecting the newly launched carrier's wish to support every passenger's fresh start. The collection spans novels, essays, nonfiction, comics and foreign-language titles, and includes current bestsellers, English translations of Korean novels for international passengers, and light comic books suited for in-flight reading.
Trinity also operates a "with TRINITY" partnership service for all passengers, reflecting the travel trend of downloading preferred content before a flight. Through the service, the airline provides subscription vouchers for the OTT platform Wavve and the e-reading platform KT Millie's Library. The company said the monthly allotment of 1,000 vouchers, distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, sells out early every month.
In the first half of 2027, Trinity plans to introduce interactive children's content for young passengers and their families on medium- and long-haul routes. The content will adapt actual flight logs written by Trinity captains into a playful, child-friendly format.
"Every customer has a different way of spending their flight time — whether relaxing with a book or enjoying their favorite content," a Trinity spokesperson said. "Grounded in our SSC, or Selective Service Carrier, philosophy of placing value on the services customers truly need, we will continue to develop diverse content so that passengers can experience services optimized for their tastes and travel purposes."
Trinity is pursuing a business strategy centered on the SSC model, which focuses on delivering customer-tailored service. Rather than offering a uniform service to all passengers, SSC selectively provides services suited to the characteristics of each route and each customer's travel purpose, with the aim of improving both operational efficiency and customer satisfaction at the same time.
eyre@heraldcorp.com