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Centre pair of Stelia Rendez-vous in the bed position.

Press Release: STELIA Aerospace to unveil reinvented RENDEZ-VOUS

Renowned globally as a leader in cabin interiors and a key player in Premium passenger seating, STELIA Aerospace is looking forward to exhib... Continue Reading

Air France's Opera seat by Stelia on the show floor at AIX 2023. The large business class seat is dark blue with lighter and darker thermoplastics around it.

Stelia reveals Opera herringbone for Air France A350, linefit 787s

HAMBURG — Airbus subsidiary seatmaker Stelia, in a new version of its outward-facing herringbone Opera, is making a play for the widebody he... Continue Reading

A women is standing in business class looking at the AERQ digital signage.

Press Release: STELIA and AERQ team on A320neo digital signage

STELIA Aerospace, in the top three for premium passenger seats, and AERQ, a provider for digital cabin solutions, are collaborating to propo... Continue Reading

This image is of an Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 arriving into Perth's international airport after a long flight from Auckland airport. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American long-haul, mid-size wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Its variants seat 242 to 335 passengers in typical three-class seating configurations. It is the first airliner with an airframe constructed primarily of composite materials. The 787 was designed to be 20% more fuel-efficient than the Boeing 767, which it was intended to replace. The 787 Dreamliner's distinguishing features include mostly electrical flight systems, raked wingtips, and noise-reducing chevrons on its engine nacelles.

New inward-facing herringbone and business-plus for Air NZ 787

Air New Zealand’s next Business Premier seat for its Boeing 787-9 is an inward-facing herringbone, and includes a front row business-plus pr... 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

China Airlines A321neo Business Class seat.

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

Beautiful scenic view of sunset through the aircraft window. Part of the VUE seat shell is in view, showing that passengers are able to clearly see out the window. A hint of the VUE seat is shown, demonstrating that passengers can clearly see out the window in this outward facing configuration

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

Stelia's aircraft seat from the passengers point of view. The storage shelf, a mirror, the IFE screen, a small plant, a table and the aircraft window are in view.

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

Film crew at the Museum of Flight in production in front of a legacy US Air 737.

Perfect match: Seattle Opera films Flight at Museum of Flight

The pandemic has forced arts and cultural groups around the world to find creative ways to bring their work to local and national audiences.... 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

The Opera business class seat, clad in black leather.

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

A photo o f the Airbus A321XLR in-flight

Clearing the longhaul narrowbody #PaxEx perception hurdles

Longhaul narrowbody flights — the ability to fly long and thin routes at a time when many routes will be increasingly thin — are going to be... Continue Reading

The new Stelia Opera seat is shown, with two passengers, in side-by-side seats, laying flat

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