A premium for business class seats: the narrowbody dilemma
For the best part of a decade, airlines have had an A vs B choice for business class on their single-aisle aircraft: either Collins Aerospac... Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Herringbone
Safran Seats to debut VUE reverse herringbone for narrowbodies
In 2019, Safran Seats began quietly developing a premium, international-style business class seat for long-haul, single-aisle twinjets. As a... Continue Reading
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
Stelia learns design lessons from previous herringbone generations
With Stelia’s Opera outward-facing herringbone looking set to be a major part of the narrowbody longhaul future, the company is drawing on a... Continue Reading
Premium Economy is a focus as Delta retrofits 767 and A330 fleets
As the pandemic continues to severely impact the aviation industry, there are emerging signs that some airlines are once again getting ready... Continue Reading
Inside herringbones: Elements of Super Diamond as Collins seats evolve
When Collins Aerospace débuts its new outwards-facing herringbone seat, Elements, with its first airlines later this year, it will be anothe... Continue Reading
Inside herringbones: a decade and a half of Cirrus
This is the first in a series of interviews with the movers and shakers behind herringbone seats, at a time when RGN would normally be roami... Continue Reading
JetBlue unveils Vantage Solo doored Mint suites — and Mint Studio
JetBlue is the launch customer for Thompson’s Vantage Solo inward-facing herringbone doored mini-suites — and a business-plus extra-seat fro... Continue Reading
Jamco reveals new antimicrobial seat, Venture Pristine
If the aircraft interiors story of 2020 was figuring out how to get aircraft clean, the story of 2021 seems set to be designing cleanliness ... Continue Reading
Designing regulation to enable seat safety and innovation
In the context of unprecedented distrust in aviation safety regulation, largely but not entirely driven by the exposure of regulatory failur... Continue Reading
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
Stelia sings 44°-angle tune with single-aisle Opera suite
The curtain is up on Opera, Stelia’s latest outward-facing herringbone business class seat, designed expressly for single-aisle aircraft. Th... Continue Reading
British Airways, Collins to revise Club Suite emergency door mechanism
It is something of a truism that no new airline seating product enters into service entirely smoothly. So it was with the table situation on... Continue Reading
BA’s new A350 Club Suites: scores on the doors?
British Airways is at a crossroads in passenger experience, with its new Collins Aerospace Super Diamond doored mini-suites arriving on its ... Continue Reading
Whither first class for British Airways in age of doored mini-suites?
British Airways’ unveiling of its Collins Aerospace-designed Super Diamond-with-a-door Club Suite is, for business class, a major upgrade fr... Continue Reading
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