Korean Air’s A321neo cabins: fine, but where is the brand equity?
Cabin design and aesthetics are inherently subjective: the attractiveness and meaning of colours across cultures varies wildly. But as leake... Continue Reading
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Airbus advances design of Airspace Link smart platform
Anyone who has connected their oven to the Internet to cook this year’s Thanksgiving turkey to perfection or used a smart HVAC system to ach... Continue Reading
Pexco Aerospace highlights knock-on benefits of AirShield
High-efficiency particulate air (commonly known as HEPA) filters have purified the air onboard many modern jets for decades. And, during the... Continue Reading
Starlux first to brand front-row business-plus as first class on A350
First class or business-plus? That’s the question that many airlines are asking themselves when it comes to deciding how to sell the extra-f... Continue Reading
Business-plus front-row seats: where we are and where we’re going
As more and more airlines unveil new business-plus front-row seats, the dynamics of how they’re designing, marketing and selling these trave... Continue Reading
What to do with the premium economy armrest console?
The picture is becoming increasingly clear that a growing number of airlines are relying on premium economy seats as part of their passenger... Continue Reading
Analysing the details and design in Lufthansa’s new first class suites
Lufthansa’s forthcoming first class seat — part of its Allegris generation of nose-to-tail products — is such a departure from its existing ... Continue Reading
Diehl delves into key cabin trends as aviation rebounds
As the commercial aviation industry accelerates out of the COVID-19 pandemic, aircraft interiors and avionics specialist Diehl Aviation is d... Continue Reading
Austrian swaps six 777 business seats for 16 premium, 14 economy
The Lufthansa Group carrier Austrian Airlines is removing the single row of business class behind the second set of doors on its Boeing 777-... Continue Reading
LIFT’s new premium/ancillary Paradym: wider, convertible triples?
2022 is the year when airlines, designers, seat manufacturers — and indeed passengers — are looking for more in premium economy. The class i... Continue Reading
American unveils solid but muted new business and business-plus suites
With its new Flagship Suite, American Airlines is the last US carrier to finally remove longhaul first, moving to the industry trend of ambi... Continue Reading
What the design of Virgin’s new A330neo business means for industry
In the couple of months since Virgin Atlantic unveiled its new business class for its forthcoming A330-900neo fleet, your author has been mu... Continue Reading
Inside Austria’s next-gen Nightjet sleeper trains
Within the next three years, a fleet of nearly three dozen Austrian Railways (ÖBB) Nightjet sleeper trains will be whizzing their way throug... Continue Reading
Contemplating the latest set of #PaxEx questions from Aviointeriors
Italian seatmaker Aviointeriors is always up for a new concept. Its history of bringing ideas like the saddle seat Skyrider to passenger exp... Continue Reading
Doors light the fire of business mini-suite innovation
This northern hemisphere summer we’ve seen a number of new business class doored mini-suites either break cover, be shown for the first time... Continue Reading