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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

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

multiple Latitude Aero employees are working on various seats in various stages of refurbishment.

Latitude Aero sees refurbishment work trend upward

Aircraft seating overhaul provider Latitude Aero, which shifted its focus to cabin decontamination services during the coronavirus pandemic,... Continue Reading

A woman conducts an inspection of an aircraft avionics bay. Image provided by IAMA

Press Release: IAMA partners with Quali-Audit for standard auditing

IAMA, the Independent Aircraft Modifier Alliance, is partnering with Paris-based Quali-Audit, to kick off the alliance’s much-anticipated au... Continue Reading

The Air4All system onboard, showing that wheelchairs could be supported without removing seats. The DOT is now eyeing a new rule for PRMs to stay in their own wheelchairs

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

Astronics and Aerotec Concept logos above a few different pieces of hardware on a blue backdrop.

Press Release: Astronics announces agreement with Aerotec Concept

Astronics Corporation, a leading provider of advanced technologies for global aerospace, defense, and other mission critical industries, ann... Continue Reading

FlightPath3D map on a seatback IFE screen

Press Release: FlightPath3D added to over 500 aircraft in 1H 2021

FlightPath3D announced today that it has achieved over 500 installations in the first half of 2021 thanks to its availability on any device ... Continue Reading

Young woman sitting using phone on the aircraft seat wearing face mask

One-on-one with WhileFly CEO Yosi Avraham

Portable battery-powered and aircraft-powered Wi-Fi boxes have become — pardon the pun — somewhat of a fixture on LCCs and indeed other oper... Continue Reading

Boeing 737 MAX 10 takes flight

Boeing’s latest jet, the 737 MAX 10, took flight for the first time on Friday, lifting off from the airport adjacent to its Renton, Washingt... Continue Reading

CarlisleIT ESA cooling system as displayed at APEX Expo 2019

One-on-one with CarlisleIT director Jeff Behlendorf

As a provider of inflight connectivity system integration components, antenna radomes and satcom aircraft equipment kits, as well as aircraf... Continue Reading

Thompson Solo business class herringbone seat in grey and brown tones. View is from the top.

Cleansheet design — and regulation — for new herringbone flatbeds

Every novel seat design isn’t just a #PaxEx pathfinder: it’s also a pioneer project for safety regulators and certification of the seat itse... Continue Reading

A computer rendering showing the separate parts of Airtek, the new JPA herringbone in which composites feature prominently

Airtek seat designers on the certification challenges of composites

Increasing the use of composite materials in cabin products has many clear benefits, with the JPA Design/Williams Airtek seat targeting a we... Continue Reading

Press Release: Gogo AVANCE L3 reaches 500 installations

The Gogo AVANCE L3 inflight connectivity system is now installed and flying on more than 500 business aircraft. AVANCE L3 delivers the benef... Continue Reading

The Opera business class seat, clad in black leather.

Inside Stelia’s plans for certifying its Opera narrowbody seat

Whenever a new seat type comes along, especially one that moves the needle among its competitors as dramatically as Stelia’s new outward-fac... Continue Reading

Designing faster and smarter with IAMA’s updated Rulebook

You might not think that a new set of rules and guidelines for creating consistency and improving quality in supplemental type certification... Continue Reading