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Seatback of premium recliners with mood lighting casting a pretty glow over the thermoplastics and IFE system.

Delta goes darker, moodier with new cabin CMF

The latest salvo in the US air carrier premium travel arms race has been fired, and this time it’s Delta with a full-fleet refresh of the co... Continue Reading

A large first class space featuring various textures and thoughtful design.

Texture and depth in seat design: the next boundaries for CMF

The colour, material and finish of today’s and tomorrow’s aircraft interiors need to be about more than just disguising pieces of composite ... Continue Reading

Belinda Mason, Thompson’s CMF Designer, sitting in a design office with an abundance of textiles around her.

Thompson’s Echo CMF standardises design, simplifies supply chain

With the aircraft interiors sector making headlines both for impressive new products and for serious delays caused by supply chain and produ... Continue Reading

The word "ReWILDing" is seen on a piece of yellow fabric, which is being held above a table by two people's hands. Other fabric samples, and plants, are seen on the table. Image: Muirhead

Nature and sustainability inspire ReWILDing collection from Muirhead

Scottish leather supplier Muirhead in June will debut a new collection at the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg. Visitors to the firm... Continue Reading

Virgin Atlantic A330 business class seat. Purples and pinks cast a nice glow on the product.

The stratification of business class seats in the 2020s

As the steady pace of new business class seats — and their implementation on airlines worldwide — continues to gather after aviation’s... Continue Reading

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

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

ANA updates domestic 787-9 with Safran, Toyota Boshoku seats

A decade into the Boeing 787’s service with Japan’s All Nippon Airways, the airline is expanding the premium cabin and installing new seats ... Continue Reading

Cebu’s 459-seater A330neo: density beyond “greige”

When Cebu Pacific announced at the 2019 Paris Air Show how many seats it was putting on its Airbus A330neo, there were gasps of shock. 460 w... Continue Reading

Masked woman sitting in Singapore Airlines Max aircraft business class seat. She is covered with a blanket, reading a book,

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

Rendering of Geven Materia aircraft seat onboard a narrowbody

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

Pandemic re-emergence of single-use plastic calls for creative reuse

Single-use plastic is having a serious COVID-19-inspired moment, but not so long ago it was derided as a largely unnecessary evil. And, in t... Continue Reading

A showcase of the CL3810. Two seat triples - in shades of grey with white accents - are in view. The winged headrest for privacy is prominent.

Recaro’s CL3810 full-featured economy drops 1.5kg, adds knee space

SCHWÄBISCH HALL, GERMANY — Creating a successor seat to an industry-leading product is always going to be high-stakes. But with its new CL38... Continue Reading

Elemento Economy class seat by Geven rendered on a blue background.

Geven reveals first next-gen economy seat Elemento

With its newest seat Elemento, Italian seatmaker Geven is marking two firsts: the first of what it calls the “next generation” of its aircra... Continue Reading

Boeing Sky Interior of 737NG with bright blue LED lights and a decorative overhead

IDSA experts on the beauty of non-utilitarian things in the cabin

In our zeal to optimize aviation design, we often look to cut out frivolous things and dead weight. Still, industry stakeholders were remind... Continue Reading