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The Iberia A330-200 parked at the gate at JFK as the sun sets

Iberia furnishes solid PaxEx on New York-Madrid-Hamburg

After COVID resulted in the cancellation of the Aircraft Interiors Expo for 2020 and 2021, I couldn’t have been more excited to head back to... Continue Reading

Geven's Forma Premium Plus seat in all grey in a rendering of an aircraft. Forma

Press Release: Geven’s new seat family takes shape with Forma

The latest addition to the new family of Geven seats is a fixed-shell ‘Premium Plus Economy’ seat for widebody aircraft, doublin... Continue Reading

A female passenger is sitting in the Air NZ Business Premier seat. The seat is all white with a large IFE screen. There is purple hue lighting surrounding the Visa seat.

Behind the changes in Safran Seats GB’s Visa seat for Air NZ

At the very front of Air New Zealand’s new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner sits a new business class herringbone seat spanning two market segments, ... Continue Reading

Air NZ Skynest with passengers in it on a 787 rendering

Air New Zealand’s new 787-9: the shape of longhaul to come

Air New Zealand’s next-generation Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner — one version of which will fly its ultra-longhaul flights, including nonstops to ... Continue Reading

Safran's Vue business class seat for narrowbody aircraft is grey with darker grey thermoplastics.

Safran’s Vue from the top in crowded narrowbody herringbone market

If the 2010s were the decade of the herringbone seat on widebody aircraft, the 2020s are the decade of the herringbone seat on narrowbody ai... Continue Reading

A man is sitting in the Collins AirLounge seat on the show floor at AIX 2022

Collins’ AirLounge sofa seat: the talk of AIX

At the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg last week, the big topic of discussion was Collins Aerospace’s AirLounge seat, presented in its Fi... Continue Reading

A grey ATR X-Space seat with side table are displayed with orange accents at the AIX 2022 show floor.

ATR eyes quick-swap cabin to position turboprops as jet alternative

HAMBURG — The age of the turboprop is here…again. Aircraft manufacturer ATR, makers of the longstanding ATR 42 and 72, is making a str... Continue Reading

Privacy doors are shut on the Jamco Quest seat. The seat is grey with chocolate brown details and blue thermoplastics.

Jamco evolves Quest staggered business class seat

HAMBURG — Of all the fascinating pre-pandemic seat concepts reappearing at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg this week, Jamco’s upmarke... Continue Reading

Condor A330neo business class in a 1-2-1 configuration. The seats are blue with white and blue vertically striped antimacassars.

Condor’s new staggered business class sets premium leisure standard

German leisure airline Condor is following up its recent controversial yet brave stripey rebrand with an impressive new business class, feat... Continue Reading

VantageDUO is pictured here in an outdoor setting. The seats are rich browns with a quilted cover.

Thompson launches new VantageDUO paired angle seat with zero-G

Ahead of the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg next week, Thompson Aero Seating is unveiling its new VantageDUO paired angled seat, aimed a... Continue Reading

Lufthansa Cityline CRJ at the gate. Post pandemic flight

COVID’s razor: post-pandemic crunch or bad PaxEx?

There’s an old adage known as Hanlon’s razor that suggests that one never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidit... Continue Reading

Press Release: STARLUX A330neo with new products enters service

Two STARLUX A330neo aircraft are ready to take off on June 1 operating routes from Taipei to Bangkok and Taipei to Manila. Another A330neo r... 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

A graphic of a Qantas A350 cutaway. The aircraft roof is missing so you can see the seat layout inside.

20+ hours upright in a seat: Qantas’ premium/economy challenge

For those considering flying down the back of Qantas’ ultra-ultra-longhaul Project Sunrise flights between Sydney and New York or London, de... Continue Reading