SIA MAX poses thoughtful premium narrowbody #PaxEx questions
SilkAir, it feels like we hardly knew ye. Singapore Airlines’ subsidiary single-aisle operations are now reabsorbed back into the mainline c... Continue Reading
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2021: the year of clean slate startup airlines?
When Virgin America created its award-winning Blah Airlines marketing campaign seven years ago to differentiate itself on the basis of passe... Continue Reading
Etihad goes doored Super Diamond for new business class
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has a new business class seat on board its Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, which leaked out at the Dubai Airshow v... Continue Reading
Geven reveals new-gen premium/biz recliner Materia
Following hard on the heels of the August release of its fully featured economy class seat, Elemento, Italian seatmaker Geven and London-bas... Continue Reading
Do social zones on planes still make sense?
Following Virgin Atlantic’s decision to bring The Booth to its leisure fleet of 397-seat A350-1000 twinjets in partnership with Factor... Continue Reading
Collins to install BA new Club Suite on (some) 777s
British Airways is tapping Collins Aerospace to update more of its Boeing 777 aircraft with the new Super Diamond-based Club Suite doored mi... Continue Reading
Breeze wafts 36 seriously nice Safran business seats into its A220s
David Neeleman’s Breeze Airways has unveiled the first of its 80 Airbus A220-300 (né Bombardier C Series CS300) aircraft, featuring a surpri... Continue Reading
Design enables wheelchairs in cabins without reducing seats
Disability activists and certain aircraft cabin design experts have long fought to usher in an industry step change by enabling powered whee... Continue Reading
Boeing’s new Mark Berryman BBJ MAX cabins impress
The Boeing Business Jet is back, with the new 737 MAX-derived BBJ seeing an order this week at NBAA, in the context of growing demand for pr... Continue Reading
Cyril Kongo A220 bizjet and other new interiors ask design questions
In a refreshing change to the beige, grey and wood toned private aircraft and business jet interiors that are all the rage, Airbus has colla... Continue Reading
Collins addresses questions about Lilac-UV sanitizing light for cabins
Collins Aerospace recently unveiled its Lilac-UV sanitizing light system as part of a licensing agreement with Boeing which grants Collins t... Continue Reading
Design Brief: Factorydesign explains The Booth on Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Atlantic recently revealed The Booth, a cozy corner developed through a collaboration with London-based Factorydesign for the leisure... Continue Reading
Lufthansa’s “discreet” A321 Airspace cabin — with no accessible lavs
In the five years since Airbus started talking about an A320 version of its Airspace cabin styling, the visuals have been of futuristic, ope... Continue Reading
2021: Aviation’s once-in-a-century opportunity to reset seat sizes
The next twenty years in aviation will define what commercial aircraft — and their cabins — look like for the next century. What looks futur... Continue Reading
Air France lounges in Paris and Montréal ask consistency questions
Continuity of design between home hub and outstation lounges seems to pose a surprising amount of challenges for airlines. Maintaining a bra... Continue Reading