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All winners of the Crystal Cabin Award pose for a photo.

Press Release: Crystal Cabin Award 2024 winners presented in Hamburg

The Crystal Cabin Award – the most prestigious award in the fields of cabin technology and passenger experience – has been presented at a ga... Continue Reading

AliceBluAero execs celebrate key milestones. Image: AliceBluAero

AliceBluAero hits key approval milestones, reveals new business seats

As airlines seek alternatives to the major seat suppliers amid capacity, production and quality issues, Northern Ireland-based seatmaker Ali... Continue Reading

Start-up BermudAir turns to Factorydesign for new aisle-class suites

Gearing up to launch Embraer E175 service between Bermuda and the US East Coast, new entrant BermudAir has turned to celebrated design house... Continue Reading

JetZero and Factorydesign unveil cabin concepts for BWB jet

Variations of blended wing body (BWB) aircraft have been studied for decades. And in more recent years, NASA, Airbus, KLM, the Delft Univers... 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

A man and women sit in Virgin Atlantic's The Booth. A flight attendant is serving them.

Virgin Atlantic shows off premium leisure space, The Booth

Designing “third places” for passenger experience will continue to grow in importance, especially with an increasing post-COVID premium leis... 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

SAS Thompson Vantage seat is pictured here in various grey tones. Headphones ang to the side of the seat and a white a grey plaid pillow sits on top of the seat.

Press Release: SAS A321LR passengers now relaxing in Vantage comfort

Thompson Aero Seating is proud to announce that its Vantage seats are now providing passengers with luxury and comfort on SAS’s new A321LR a... Continue Reading

Finnair business class seat is pictured here with a woman in a brown outfit, sleeping on the flatbed.

The 14 different kinds of business class seats in 2022

As aviation in much of the world begins to accelerate out of the pandemic effects of COVID-19, the business class seating landscape has chan... Continue Reading

Computer rendering of the Factorydesign Access business class seat. Seats by the window are frontward facing while the seats next to them are angled inwards towards the aircraft window. Small pillows sit on each seat.

The Z-bed is back: Factorydesign’s single-aisle Access

The “comfort canyon” between fully flat business class seats and economy class is growing wider again, especially on the new fleet of long-h... 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

Thompson Vantage seating on Singapore Airlines (SIA) Boeing 737-8

Press Release: SIA unveils all-new 737-8 narrowbody cabin products

Singapore Airlines (SIA) today launched its highly-anticipated new cabin products, which will be rolled out on its Boeing 737-8 fleet in the... Continue Reading

Thompson Vantage seating on Singapore Airlines Boeing 737-8

Press Release: ACS delivers Vantage seats, AIM monuments for SIA

AVIC Cabin Systems (ACS) announces its partnership with Singapore Airlines for its latest narrowbody Business Class product on the Boeing 73... Continue Reading

A350-1000 with Virgin Atlantic livery flying in a clear blue sky

Design Brief: Factorydesign explains The Booth on Virgin Atlantic

Virgin Atlantic recently revealed The Booth, a cozy corner developed through a collaboration with London-based Factorydesign for the leisure... Continue Reading

Two passengers, one seated at the window and the other in an aisle seat, are facing forward, with the HeadZone cardboard solution shown in view. Both passengers are wearing masks. HeadZone provides an added layer of privacy to the passengers.

Creating a ‘me space’ on board with a recyclable solution

As airlines begin to abandon empty middle seat policies adopted at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, passengers may crave a more private... Continue Reading