Details and Design

A man and a women are enjoying a drink in the KLM premium economy seats.

KLM finally goes Premium Economy with new lightweight Collins MiQ

The Netherlands’ national carrier KLM is finally installing a full premium economy class on board its Boeing 777 and 787 widebodies, with th... Continue Reading

The updated Thompson Vantage XL in rich browns with a yellow pillow atop the seat

Thompson’s 2022 VantageXL update adds new design details

Thompson Aero Seating is going into the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg next month with an updated version of its popular VantageXL seat,... Continue Reading

Lufthansa A350 Vantage XL business class seat. The blue seat has a white headrest cover and a blue pillow with orange and white stripes.

Lufthansa vs “Lifthansa”: how the new Vantage XL stacks up

Lufthansa’s new ex-Philippine Airlines Thompson Vantage XL seats are set to fly on four Airbus A350s that the airline has taken over, repain... Continue Reading

Business Class cabin on Air France's Boeing 777-300ER. The seat is navy blue with white walls around it.

Air France new seats: more arrière-garde than avant-garde

Air France’s latest business class, a doored outward-facing herringbone minisuite from the Safran Seats Cirrus family — with a front-row lar... Continue Reading

An Emirates flight attendant stands in the Premium Economy section of the aircraft. The seats are cream coloured.

Emirates opens up new premium economy sales, soft product

Emirates finally has a date for selling the premium economy cabins aboard the Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 widebodies it revealed nearly six m... Continue Reading

A rendering of Qantas A350 First Class suite. A large IFE screen is visible and a chair as well as a bed.

Sunrise but not surprise: Qantas’ London/NY A350-1000

It’s no surprise that Qantas chose the Airbus A350-1000 for Project Sunrise. What is interesting is that it will have a large extra fuel tan... Continue Reading

LIFT Aero Design Vantage business class seat for Philippine Airlines

Reskinned ex-PAL Vantage XL asks Lufthansa hard new biz questions

When Lufthansa’s social-forward @lufthansaviews Instagram released a sneak peek of what it billed as an “updated business class”, your autho... Continue Reading

A rendering of 3 Alice Blu Aero’s Quantum seats.

Northern Ireland’s Alice Blu Aero eyes narrowbody herringbone market

The premium narrowbody business class race is hotting up with a new seat — and new seatmaker — from Northern Ireland: Alice Blu Aero’s Quant... Continue Reading

Smart use of mood lighting in an aircraft cabin as it cast soft blue over the fixtures.

Glow Up: interior lighting is getting smarter

On a recent Eurostar trip between France and London, it was striking to observe just how much the stark light onboard the train diminished t... Continue Reading

Delta’s new ‘domestic’ A321neo: the shape of things to come?

Whenever we dive into the details of a cabin onboard an Airbus A321neo, it seems like we focus on the brand new lie-flat seats of the long-r... Continue Reading

Condor is striped. And Condor is controversial.

Depending on who you ask, it’s the worst livery of all time or it’s the second coming of the golden jet age icon Braniff’s brightly coloured... Continue Reading

Teague's Elevate business class seat attached to the aircraft via a Ebrace is pictured here. The area is spacious with a marble table, IFE screen, large window and sage green accents along with Bamboo fixtures.

Teague Elevates ‘floating’ herringbone with Nordam Nbrace

Whenever a beautiful, stylish, innovative cabin concept appears, one of the disappointingly relevant realities that it smacks up against is ... Continue Reading

Unum One seat in the upright position. The sea tis light grey with darker grey accents around it. The seatbelt is visible on the seat cushion and there is a table and storage area to the side of the seat.

Up close with Unum’s first seat, the 34” Unum One herringbone

LONDON — Startup seatmaker Unum is launching its Unum One seat for the Airbus A321neo platform, with a model that breaks the 34” pitch barri... Continue Reading

A women in a brown outfit sits in the Finnair business class seat. The seat is blue with grey accents.

Diving into the details of Finnair’s new business seat

It’s safe to say that Finnair’s new Collins AirLounge business class seat for its Airbus A330s and A350s has provoked a lot of discussion ac... Continue Reading

Swiss Premium Economy interior cabin shows seats of grey with black and white details. A white pillow sits on each seat.

Inside the unusual aspects of Swiss’ new ZIM premium economy

Swiss is rolling out its newly unveiled premium economy cabin at speed, with all of its Boeing 777 routes to offer the new ZIM seats by the ... Continue Reading

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