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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

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

Top down view of the Unum One seat. A pillow rests on a grey business class seat. Headphones rest on a side table next to an IFE screen.

Unum’s new herringbone business seat aims at design and delivery

There’s a new seatmaker in town, focussing on herringbone business class seats as airlines look to update their onboard product and industry... Continue Reading

SAS A321LR business class seat in all grey with a white pillow. There is a blanket on the middle armrest and a glass of wine displayed.

SAS’ new A321LR: the return of longhaul narrowbody premium economy

Sometimes, the biggest innovations in passenger experience come where you might least expect them. Longhaul, single-aisle premium economy se... Continue Reading

China Airlines A321neo Business Class Seat

JPA’s China Airlines A321neo brings premium, modern take

With its beautiful new cabin for Taipei-based China Airlines’ new Airbus A321neo fleet, JPA Design may well be the first example of a succes... 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

HAECO Eclipse seat in a flydubai aircraft

Flydubai splits fleet between new Eclipse, Vantage and all-economy

Flydubai sees its new HAECO Eclipse staggered-angled business class seat as a key part of its future passenger experience proposition, and p... 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

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

Boeing’s new Mark Berryman BBJ MAX cabins impress

The Boeing Business Jet is back, with the new 737 MAX-derived BBJ seeing an order this week at NBAA, in the context of growing demand for pr... Continue Reading

Inside the new Kongo-designed ACJ TwoTwenty aircraft with pops of colour on the carpet, sidewalls and furnishings

Cyril Kongo A220 bizjet and other new interiors ask design questions

In a refreshing change to the beige, grey and wood toned private aircraft and business jet interiors that are all the rage, Airbus has colla... Continue Reading