Crash testing capacity crunch drives new Mirus site expansion
A few hours northeast of London near Norwich, Mirus Aircraft Seating is building its own dynamic test facility for aircraft seats, featuring... Continue Reading
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18 months after delivery, Qatar Airways unveils Adient 787-9 cabin
Qatar Airways’ latest Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner cabins — revealed some eighteen months after the airline took delivery of the aircraft — featu... Continue Reading
Press Release: Recaro sets comfort benchmark with Aeroflot
Recaro Aircraft Seating (Recaro) has set a new comfort benchmark by fully equipping Aeroflot’s Airbus fleet. More than 50 shipsets of the BL... Continue Reading
TAP taps Recaro for second-gen Eurobiz-hybrid shorthaul
With the introduction of two of Recaro’s latest economy class seat types on its newest Airbus A320, TAP Air Portugal has clearly decided tha... Continue Reading
Closing the loop: aviation’s post-use thermoplastics footprint
What happens to your aircraft seat after its useful life is over and it’s removed from the aircraft? It’s increasingly likely to end up bein... Continue Reading
Flying first in Alaska’s sparkling new A320 cabin amid COVID
Like many frequent fliers of yore, the pandemic clipped my wings for most of the past year. But an intra-state business trip from Seattle to... Continue Reading
Recycled and bio-plastics: a solution to the PaxEx plastics footprint?
The passenger experience industry often considers plastics in aesthetic terms, from developing exciting new shapes, patterns and technologie... Continue Reading
Kitting has its day, as Recaro’s SWIFT seats gain A320 SFE appeal
It may have taken a global pandemic for aircraft seat “kitting” to really take off, but it appears its time has come in industry... Continue Reading
Press Release: Recaro to supply seats to Alaska Airlines’ new 737 MAXs
Recaro Aircraft Seating has received additional orders to outfit Alaska Airlines’ (Alaska) new B737 MAX aircraft with 13 shipsets of the CL4... Continue Reading
Five years on: how the A320neo is changing aviation
For many who followed the development of Airbus’ A320neo family of aircraft very closely during the first half of the 2010s, it will seem as... Continue Reading
My kingdom for a slimline: honesty and reality in PaxEx
Once COVID-19 vaccinations enable safe, sensible and responsible travel, there’s a generational opportunity for some airlines to change tack... Continue Reading
Managing supply chain quality in complicated times
Achieving and maintaining high quality aircraft seat manufacturing is a complicated job, with today’s mobile, social and vocal airline passe... Continue Reading
Emirates’ premium economy shows upgrades but no category shift
There was a time in the distant past — by which, at the end of 2020, we mean any time before the COVID-19 crisis — when Emirates’ adoption o... Continue Reading
Press Release: Avolon orders Recaro BL3530 seats for A320s, 737NGs
Avolon has agreed with Recaro Aircraft Seating an order for twenty shipsets of the SPRINT seat, consisting of fifteen (15) shipsets for use ... Continue Reading