What’s your water buffalo? Learning from hotel innovations
Designing airline passenger experience sometimes benefits from a look at other parts of the travel experience. Hotels are often a focus, wit... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Details & Design
JPA Design leads the way in narrowbody #PaxEx with flydubai MAX 8
You might think that all the innovative design work in commercial aviation takes place in the expansive, spacious widebody arena, with twent... Continue Reading
Choose-your-own-adventure model emerges at Etihad Airways
Sitting in a cramped seat and drooling over the extras – extra space, extra food, extra goodies – allocated to those in business or first cl... Continue Reading
Qatar QSuite deserves plaudits but raises quality and reliability issues
Qatar Airways’ bespoke Qsuite is almost as impressive in the operational flesh as it was on display at the Paris Air Show last summer and in... Continue Reading
Winning the zero-sum game with storage and features, not angles, doors
Much of the design innovation in business class seats over the last few years has focused on resolving the zero-sum problem with staggered s... Continue Reading
Seeking premium economy’s launch airline unearths historical quirks
One of the most intriguing mysteries in the history of modern passenger experience is which airline first designed premium economy: EVA Air ... Continue Reading
From staid to funky, inflight safety card design sends a brand message
Although he wasn’t aware of it at the time, Troy Dixon started collecting airline safety cards at the tender age of eight-months-old o... Continue Reading
Three headrest designs attempting to improve economy class comfort
As aircraft seat width and pitch are continuously cut in bids for greater cabin density, and materials and structures grow thinner to keep w... Continue Reading
How airlines can design multifunctional lounge seating to please all
Airport lounges have a unique set of passenger needs to fill: restaurant, lounge, office, dining room, living room, bar, spa, bathroom, bedr... Continue Reading
Why window seats on the Boeing 787 seem the narrowest of all
“99.9% of the flying public don’t know which aircraft type they’re flying.” While this generalization, left by a commenter on a past post he... Continue Reading
Korean Air’s Apex seats raise production, maintenance questions
The past several years have not seen universal success for seatmakers cutting the bleeding edge where design, materials engineering, passeng... Continue Reading
Smart design hacks can really nail the #PaxEx details
Every so often, you come across a piece of design that’s so smart yet so simple that you sit back and wonder why it’s not used across the wo... Continue Reading
Airlines continue to improve the mobile passenger experience
The modern age of the smartphones that we now take for granted began a decade ago with the 2007 release of the Apple iPhone (running the iOS... Continue Reading
A long goodbye to the “Chauffeur-Drive” premium airline amenity
The image of a sunglasses-wearing, leather passport holder-toting airline passenger stepping out from behind the darkened windows of a priva... Continue Reading
SkyLights’ next-gen VR headset AlloSky takes flight at APEX
LONG BEACH – Virtual Reality (VR) headsets have been the stuff gearhead dreams are made of since the modern concept of VR first sprung... Continue Reading
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