What’s your water buffalo? Learning from hotel innovations
Designing airline passenger experience sometimes benefits from a look at other parts of the travel experience. Hotels are often a focus, wit... Continue Reading
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Take a look inside Incheon Airport’s new Terminal 2
Visitors headed to South Korea for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games will be wowed by the brand new Terminal 2 that opened last mont... Continue Reading
Korean Air fingers partners for Apex seat problems
It wasn’t so very long ago that aircraft interiors specialists enjoyed a level of secrecy that other parts of the aviation industry co... Continue Reading
JPA Design leads the way in narrowbody #PaxEx with flydubai MAX 8
You might think that all the innovative design work in commercial aviation takes place in the expansive, spacious widebody arena, with twent... Continue Reading
UK start-up offers new way for passengers to bid for unsold seats
A UK-based start-up is today launching a new air ticket distribution platform which it claims will be the first fully-automated solution of ... Continue Reading
Choose-your-own-adventure model emerges at Etihad Airways
Sitting in a cramped seat and drooling over the extras – extra space, extra food, extra goodies – allocated to those in business or first cl... Continue Reading
ANA’s quirky, snackable Japanese tourism content strikes a chord
It’s often surprising how few airlines produce, commission or even partner with travel content creators, both to encourage travel to their n... Continue Reading
Qatar QSuite deserves plaudits but raises quality and reliability issues
Qatar Airways’ bespoke Qsuite is almost as impressive in the operational flesh as it was on display at the Paris Air Show last summer and in... Continue Reading
Flying Dutch, Not Rough: PrivateFly sees trend towards younger fliers
As entertaining as it is informative, the Private Jet Charter Trends report produced annually by online charter platform PrivateFly showed a... Continue Reading
Winning the zero-sum game with storage and features, not angles, doors
Much of the design innovation in business class seats over the last few years has focused on resolving the zero-sum problem with staggered s... Continue Reading
Boeing aims for seat market with Adient to fill nose-to-tail gap
Boeing and automotive seatmaker Adient are creating a new joint venture airline seatmaker, Adient Aerospace, in which Adient is the 50.01 pe... Continue Reading
Industry has not seen Koito repeat but quick turn orders are a thing
In 2010 Japanese seatmaker Koito Industries’ falsification of test data on as many as 150,000 seats in the world fleet came to light. The fi... Continue Reading
Airbus A380 cabin enablers fail to lure new operators for the type
Airbus’ revelation this morning that it is relying on forging a new deal with A380 operator Emirates to keep the flagship program alive sign... Continue Reading
Premium economy bottleneck creates challenges and opportunities
If you walked around the stands at the colocated APEX and Aircraft Interiors Americas expos last fall in Long Beach, California, you could b... Continue Reading
Seeking premium economy’s launch airline unearths historical quirks
One of the most intriguing mysteries in the history of modern passenger experience is which airline first designed premium economy: EVA Air ... Continue Reading
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