Optimares goes big with new business flat bed on Hawaiian
Little-known Italian seat manufacturer Optimares is making a name for itself in the business class seating market with a new fully flat bed ... Continue Reading
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Op-Ed: Airlines’ bespoke premium seat choices warrant questions
British Airways introduced the first flat-bed business class seat in 2000. At that point in time, no seat manufacturer was making fully hori... Continue Reading
Icelandair Economy Comfort walks a pleasing business-light line
Transatlantic premium economy travel is an odd bird. On the US side, it’s just extra-legroom economy, with American Airlines even downgradin... Continue Reading
Lufthansa compromises on Boeing 747-400 nose-to-tail refurb
Having received regulatory approval to install its new premium economy seats while refurbishing its older Boeing 747-400 aircraft, Lufthansa... Continue Reading
SIA makes POWER-ful PE statement; will it extend to A350-900ULR?
DELHI: As airlines get a breather from plunging oil prices and tech-savvy, mid-level managers accept the fact that their ‘road warrior... Continue Reading
#PaxEx Podcast: Seats, Lies and early window Videotape
Welcome to Episode 28 of the #PaxEx Podcast. Our guest for this episode is John Walton, an international aviation journalist who writes for ... Continue Reading
Making sure premium inflight entertainment is premium
In a time when airlines are spending billions of dollars to differentiate their economy, premium economy, business and first class products,... Continue Reading
Icelandair’s new 767s and Q400s raise un-Comfort-able questions
REYKJAVIK — Icelandair, having tripled its route network and more than doubled its passenger numbers since 2009, is adding Boeing 767-300ER ... Continue Reading
Slimmer armrests let Southwest make claim of more seat space
The new “wider” seats for Southwest Airlines’s future Boeing 737-800s and 737 MAXs are on display this week at the company... Continue Reading
Astronics demos USB Type-C, the in-seat power ports of the future
If you own an overwhelming slice of the pie in a particular market, do you stop innovating? No, says onboard technology powerhouse Astronics... Continue Reading
Business or science? Choose both, urges Airbus marketing exec
PORTLAND, OREGON — Anaïs Marzo da Costa, Airbus’ newly appointed Head of Aircraft Interiors Marketing is, unusually for someone in her team,... Continue Reading
Cabin concept seeks to provoke questions about passenger desire
In the landmark Chicago Area Transportation Study of 1955-1962, urban planners defined desire lines as “the shortest line between orig... Continue Reading
Teague’s pie in the sky future poses thought-provoking questions
PORTLAND, OREGON — At the APEX Expo’s educational sessions today, Devin Liddell, a principal design strategist at Teague, proposed a notiona... Continue Reading
American’s post-Zodiac business class seat options explored
So long, American Airlines’ unique forwards-backwards herringbone seat, we hardly knew ye. The often fractious relationship between airline ... Continue Reading
American seeks new business seat vendor after chronic delays
American Airlines has started looking for a new vendor to supply Business Class seats for its Boeing 787-9 aircraft and the remainder of its... Continue Reading
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